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Live updates: Grand jury decision in Eric Garner case sparks more protests

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 03:44 PM PST

Protesters gather in Foley Square in lower Manhattan in New York City demanding justice for the death of GarnerDemonstrators gather at Foley Square in lower Manhattan, while hundreds march in streets.

Eric Garner's children speak to Katie Couric in exclusive interview

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 09:09 AM PST

Katie Couric Live: Exclusive First Interview With Eric Garner's ChildrenErica and Eric Garner Jr. raise the question of what more a jury needs to charge officer.

Hundreds of killings by cops are not reported to FBI, study finds

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 08:09 AM PST

NYPD officer not indicted in death of Eric GarnerA new study finds that more than 550 killings by police were not reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2007 and 2012. This makes it nearly impossible to figure out how many people cops kill — justifiably or not — every year.

Top U.S. justice official promises probe after NYC police chokehold death

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 04:53 PM PST

Protesters gather in Foley Square in lower Manhattan in New York City demanding justice for the death of GarnerBy Sebastien Malo, Barbara Goldberg and Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday promised a full investigation into the choking death of an unarmed black man by a white New York police officer as protests flared for a second day over a grand jury's decision declining to bring criminal charges in the case. ...

Hagel dismisses reports he resigned over differences with Obama

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 03:12 PM PST

U.S. President Obama listens to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel after the president announced Hagel's resignation at the White House in WashingtonBy David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday his resignation last week was not prompted by "major differences" with President Barack Obama, pushing back against statements that he had been fired or quit due to White House micromanagement. Hagel, speaking publicly for the first time about his Nov. 24 resignation, said he decided to step down after several conversations with the president led him to conclude that now was the best timing for a Pentagon leadership change. ...

L.A. police chief finds fault with shooting of unarmed man after chase

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 04:31 PM PST

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three Los Angeles police officers who killed an unarmed man after a car chase last year, in a shooting caught on live television, acted in violation of the department's use of force policy, the police chief said in a report released on Thursday. The three officers have said they thought 51-year-old Brian Beaird was reaching for a gun or shooting at them when they fired on him 21 times last December in an incident in downtown Los Angeles that raised questions about police use of force. ...

U.S.: Cleveland police poorly trained, reckless

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 04:25 PM PST

Tamir Rice is seen allegedly pointing his weapon at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland in still image from videoCLEVELAND (AP) — A U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday spared no one in the Cleveland police chain of command amid findings of excessive use of force and civil rights violations.

Republicans seem poised to expand Senate majority

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 06:45 AM PST

Republican Bill Cassidy reacts after the results of the U.S. Senate race in Baton RougeRep. Bill Cassidy's race against Sen. Mary Landrieu could complete the 2014 GOP onslaught.

Matt Bai: Jeb Bush is right about 2016

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:55 AM PST

Former Florida Governor Jeb BushThe smart play for 2016, if you're a Republican like Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or Marco Rubio, may be to let the other guys fight it out for Survivalist of the Year and set your sights on the party's other, broader constituencies: the right-leaning independents and mainline conservatives who fear that a Republican nominee too easily caricatured as extreme will lead the country straight into the embrace of Hillary Clinton. If you can unify that voting bloc, more or less, and end up going one-on-one with a candidate like Rand Paul or Scott Walker on Super Tuesday, then you've got a very real path to the nomination.

NASA scrubs Orion launch; will try again Friday

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 10:38 AM PST

The service structure is rolled away from NASA's Orion spaceship early Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Orion is scheduled to lift off later this morning on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket on its first unmanned orbital test flight. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)NASA's new Orion spacecraft will have to wait a little longer to fly.

Protests erupt after chokehold decision

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:26 PM PST

Protesters in Times Square raise their hands and chant while carrying signs in reaction to a non indictment against a police officer in the death of Eric Garner, Wednesday Dec. 3, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)New York reacts after a grand jury fails to indict a cop in the death of Eric Garner.

Yemen's al-Qaida threatens to kill U.S.hostage in video

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 02:01 AM PST

A grab taken from a propaganda video released by al-Malahem Media on December 4, 2014 purportedly shows US hostage Luke Somers, 33, kidnapped more than a year ago in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, saying that his life is in dangerAl-Qaeda in Yemen released a video Thursday threatening to execute a US journalist taken hostage last year. In the video dated December 2014, the hostage said his name was Luke Somers, 33, and that he was kidnapped more than a year ago in Sanaa. The photojournalist was kidnapped in the Yemeni capital in September 2013, US-based monitoring agency SITE Intelligence said. The video featured a message by Nasser bin Ali Al-Ansi, of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), threatening to kill the hostage in three days if Washington failed to meet unspecified demands.

Islamic militants attack Chechen capital; 20 dead

Posted: 04 Dec 2014 12:22 PM PST

A man looks into a burnt-out car near the Press House building, a local media agency, in the Chechen capital GroznyGROZNY, Russia (AP) — Police waged hours-long gunbattles with Islamic militants who attacked Chechnya's capital Thursday, leaving at least 20 people dead and underscoring Russia's vulnerability just as President Vladimir Putin used patriotic and religious imagery in his state-of-the-nation address to defend his standoff with the West.

Justice Dept. to investigate Eric Garner death

Posted: 03 Dec 2014 07:27 PM PST

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder leaves after making a statement about the grand jury decision not to seek an indictment in the Staten Island death of Eric Garner during an arrest in July, in WashingtonWASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the white police officer who applied the move, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday.

Obama's AG pick targets convicted Clinton bundler

Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:46 PM PST

Loretta Lynch and Sant Singh ChatwalLoretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to be his next attorney general, is asking a federal judge to impose a stiff prison term on a former Hillary Clinton fundraiser convicted of making illegal campaign contributions. The court filing by Lynch's office comes at a time when she is facing a potentially tough grilling from Republican lawmakers on her nomination to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder. "It won't hurt for Loretta Lynch to be sending a major Democratic fundraiser to prison right before her confirmation hearing for attorney general," said one Washington lawyer.

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