| Court: No promise Ferguson grand jury evidence will be made public Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:27 PM PST  Demonstrators and Michael Brown's family have denounced the secrecy of the process.
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| Obama: Americans want 'new car smell' in 2016 Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:35 PM PST  President Barack Obama says voters want a 'new car smell' in the 2016 White House race and that Hillary Rodham Clinton would be 'a great president.'
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| New Jersey looks at 'yes means yes' college policy Posted: 23 Nov 2014 09:07 AM PST  You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level. She seems to be throwing all the right signals.
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| Flooding could follow heavy snow in western New York Posted: 23 Nov 2014 04:28 PM PST  By Mark Blinch BUFFALO (Reuters) - Emergency workers filled thousands of sandbags on Sunday as the area around Buffalo, New York braced for potential flooding as warming temperatures began to melt up to seven feet (2 meters) of snow. Creeks appeared to be flowing smoothly and no flooding had been reported as the sun began to go down, county officials said. More than 775 members of the New York National Guard were in Erie County and Buffalo to help with flood prevention after days of work to clear roads and dig homes and cars out of the record snow from a storm that killed 13 people. ...
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| Anxious Ferguson waits for grand jury's decision Posted: 23 Nov 2014 11:58 AM PST  By Daniel Wallis and Ellen Wulfhorst FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - After a fourth straight night of low-level protests in Ferguson, Missouri, anxious residents still did not know on Sunday when a grand jury would return a decision on whether to charge a white policeman who shot an unarmed black teen to death this summer. It appeared that the St. Louis suburb, which has become a flashpoint for U.S. race relations since Officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, would have to wait until at least Monday and perhaps longer for an announcement. ...
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| Scandal-plagued former Washington mayor Marion Barry dies Posted: 23 Nov 2014 09:35 AM PST  By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marion Barry, the scandal-plagued former mayor of Washington, D.C., who was jailed for smoking crack cocaine before making a surprising return to office, died early on Sunday aged 78. Before his fall from grace, Barry had been one of the nation's most promising black politicians. Years later, many Washingtonians would consider him a scoundrel but he remained a hero to many others in impoverished parts of the city, even as his continuing battles with substance abuse went public. ...
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| Anxieties mount as Ferguson waits on grand jury Posted: 23 Nov 2014 02:03 PM PST  Crews erected barricades around the building where a grand jury has been considering whether to indict the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, even as a grand jury decision seemed unlikely this weekend.
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| Flooding could follow heavy snow in western New York Posted: 23 Nov 2014 09:26 AM PST  Emergency workers filled thousands of sandbags on Sunday as the area around Buffalo, New York braced for potential flooding as warming temperatures began to melt up to seven feet of snow.
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| Boy with fake gun dies after shot by Ohio officer Posted: 23 Nov 2014 01:18 PM PST  A 12-year-old boy brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun is dead after being shot by a Cleveland police officer.
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| Suicide bomber kills at least 45 Afghans Posted: 23 Nov 2014 09:26 AM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 45 people in the country's deadliest terrorist attack this year, officials said.
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| Former DC Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78 Posted: 23 Nov 2014 03:04 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A controversial and tireless advocate for the nation's capital who created jobs for generations of black families, Marion Barry was the ultimate District of Columbia politician, though his arrest for drug use in the midst of a crack cocaine epidemic often overshadows his accomplishments.
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| A way for GOP to defuse immigration issue? Posted: 23 Nov 2014 07:41 AM PST  DENVER (AP) — Republicans in search of a way to oppose President Barack Obama's moves on immigration without alienating the nation's fast-growing population of Hispanic voters can find a playbook in Colorado.
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| Putin says Russia not isolated over Ukraine, blames West for frosty ties Posted: 23 Nov 2014 05:05 AM PST  By Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for worsening relations with Russia since the Ukraine crisis and said Moscow would not allow itself to become internationally isolated behind another 'Iron Curtain'. In an interview published by state news agency TASS on Sunday, Putin also said Western sanctions against Moscow, combined with the slide in the rouble and oil price falls would have no "catastrophic consequences" on Russia's economy. ...
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