| Donald Trump on ISIS: ‘You have to take out their families’ Posted:  Donald Trump's plan to defeat the Islamic State involves destroying them — and their families.
|
| Millions at stake, the ‘Adelson primary’ is neck and neck Posted:  It is the biggest financial prize in Republican presidential politics: the endorsement of multibillionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
|
| Statue of Liberty inspired by Arab woman, researchers say Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:03 PM PST  The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of democracy and freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to US shores, was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal, researchers said. The recent findings are especially startling for some in the United States amid a heated debate over the arrival of refugees from war-scarred Syria and other Muslim majority countries. French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who traveled to Egypt in 1855-1856, developed there a "passion for large-scale public monuments and colossal sculptures," said the US National Park Service, which guards the Statue of Liberty in New York.
|
| Planned Parenthood shooting: Domestic terrorism? It's knotty Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:47 PM PST  The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic brought several guns, ammunition and propane tanks officials say he assembled around a car.
|
| When climate negotiations proceed just like an 'action movie' Posted: 02 Dec 2015 05:20 AM PST  With world leaders back home, it's time for the hardcore climate negotiators to work on the more mundane guts of a deal and they are being told to quicken the pace at it. Generally climate negotiations ...
|
| Rio's Olympic waterways badly polluted, even far offshore, tests show Posted: 02 Dec 2015 10:48 AM PST  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year's games: He'd wear plastic overalls and peel them off when he was safely past the contaminated waters nearest shore.
|
| Chicago police force needs a cultural change: mayor Posted: 02 Dec 2015 08:10 AM PST  Chicago's 12,000-member police force, one of the biggest in the country and one of the most prone to use lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday in an interview with Politico. Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday and has launched a search for a replacement, following protests over the police killing of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African-American teenager, which was caught on video. Jason Van Dyke, the white police officer who shot McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014, has been charged with murder and is out on bail.
|
| Secret Service agent indicted for 'sexting' Posted: 02 Dec 2015 08:59 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted a U.S. Secret Service officer who allegedly sent naked pictures of himself to an undercover police officer posing as a 14-year-old girl, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
|
| Jury selected in Baltimore's Freddie Gray killing trial Posted: 02 Dec 2015 08:27 AM PST  A jury was selected on Wednesday in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in a black man's death that triggered rioting and fueled a U.S. debate on police brutality and race relations. Opening arguments in the trial of Officer William Porter could begin as early as Wednesday after the panel of eight black and four white jurors was chosen in Baltimore City Circuit Court, a court spokeswoman said. The jurors' identities will be shielded, and Judge Barry Williams has said the trial will run no later than Dec. 17.
|
| U.S. special operations forces expanding in Iraq to battle ISIS Posted: 01 Dec 2015 11:14 PM PST  Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress today that the U.S. would establish a special operations "targeting force" in Iraq as part of the intensified military effort to fight ISIS. The special operations force would conduct raids, could free hostages held by ISIS, gather intelligence and capture ISIS leaders in both Iraq and Syria. It is part of the broader role for U.S. special operations forces that Carter said would occur in the wake of the raid in late October where U.S. special operations forces helped free 70 ISIS hostages in northern Iraq.
|
| New dad Zuckerberg vows to give away Facebook fortune Posted: 02 Dec 2015 01:19 AM PST  Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced he had become a father -- and pledged to give away his fortune to make the world a "better place" for baby daughter Max and others. In a letter to Max posted on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg and his wife said they were going to give away 99 percent of their company shares -- with an estimated value of $45 billion -- in an effort to make a happy and healthy world for her and all children.
|
