| 13-year-old son of slain NYPD officer mourns father on Facebook Posted: 21 Dec 2014 11:23 AM PST  In a pair of a heart-wrenching Facebook posts, the son of one of the two NYPD officers killed in Saturday's apparent ambush paid tribute to his slain father.
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| Obama, de Blasio blasted over NYPD cop slayings Posted: 21 Dec 2014 09:55 AM PST  Lawmakers, civil rights leaders and other officials took to Sunday-morning talk shows to condemn Saturday's slayings of two NYPD police officers.
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| What police departments can learn from the LAPD Posted: 21 Dec 2014 07:25 AM PST  Los Angeles used to be a hotbed of racial profiling and unrest. Now Chief Charlie Beck thinks his force could be a model for the rest of the nation.
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| Police officers' slaying raises pressure on New York mayor Posted: 21 Dec 2014 04:34 PM PST  By Laila Kearney and Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his political career on Sunday after a gunman killed two police officers in an attack intended to avenge recent police killings of unarmed black men in the United States. New York police officers turned their backs on de Blasio in protest during a news conference and their union said the mayor had blood on his hands after Saturday's shooting. ...
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| Florida police officer killed; suspect charged with murder Posted: 21 Dec 2014 12:53 PM PST  By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A veteran Florida police officer was shot and killed while on duty early Sunday by a man described as transient, according to law enforcement officials, who gave no motive for the suspect now charged with murder. Officer Charles Kondek, 45, was gunned down in Tarpon Springs, about 30 miles northwest of Tampa, after responding to a call for service around 2 a.m. EST, the Tarpon Springs Police Department said. The officer later died of his injuries at a local hospital, the police department said. ...
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| In wake of police killings, New York officers on edge Posted: 21 Dec 2014 02:59 PM PST  By Michelle Conlin (Reuters) - On December 13, as thousands of protesters mobbed the New York streets, Yuseff Hamm, an NYPD police officer, was monitoring the demonstrations from a mobile command unit near the Brooklyn Bridge. As the protest drew near, Hamm and his fellow officers could hear the chants of the noisy throngs: "What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now." In his 13 years on the force, Hamm had never encountered demonstrators shouting out anything like that. ...
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| Popess role in Cuba deal fractures Cuban-American flock Posted: 21 Dec 2014 12:30 PM PST  The key role Pope Francis played encouraging talks between Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro left fractures among his flock in South Florida, where many older Roman Catholics equate the Castro brothers with the devil.
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| Pakistan makes arrests in Taliban school carnage Posted: 21 Dec 2014 11:04 AM PST  Authorities made several arrests in the case of the Taliban school attack that killed 148 in the northwestern city of Peshawar, on Sunday, officials said.
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| Killer of 2 NYC officers had long criminal history Posted: 21 Dec 2014 03:49 PM PST  The warning came just moments too late: A man who had shot his ex-girlfriend a few hours earlier had traveled to New York City and vowed online to shoot two "pigs" in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner.
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| U.S. mulls putting N. Korea on terrorism sponsor list Posted: 21 Dec 2014 11:10 AM PST  HONOLULU (AP) — President Barack Obama says the United States is reviewing whether to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism as Washington decides how to respond to what he calls an "act of cybervandalism," not one of war, against a movie company.
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| Raul Castro: Don't expect detente to change Cuban system Posted: 20 Dec 2014 01:17 PM PST  HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro sent a blunt message to Washington Saturday as the White House works to reverse a half-century of hostility between the U.S. and Cuba: Don't expect detente to do away with the communist system.
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| U.S. dismisses N. Korea hacking probe offer, seeks China's help Posted: 21 Dec 2014 12:50 AM PST  The United States has dismissed a call by North Korea for a joint investigation into the hacking of Sony Pictures and wants China to help block cyber attacks from Pyongyang. Washington blames North Korea for a breach of cyber security at Sony which led to the release of embarrassing emails and prompted executives to halt the release of "The Interview". Pyongyang has repeatedly denied that it was behind last month's crippling attack, which also led to the leaking of scripts, and called Saturday for a joint probe with the US.
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| Teen gets portrait with rifle into yearbook despite objections from staff Posted: 20 Dec 2014 12:19 PM PST  A teenage girl from Broadalbin-Perth High School in upstate New York managed to get her hunting picture into the yearbook even after a school committee objected to its inclusion.
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| North Korea proposes joint probe over Sony hacking Posted: 20 Dec 2014 04:40 PM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. into the hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, warning of "serious" consequences if Washington rejects a probe that it believes would prove Pyongyang had nothing to do with the cyberattack.
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| Muhammad Ali hospitalized with pneumonia Posted: 20 Dec 2014 08:44 PM PST  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Boxing great Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with a mild case of pneumonia that was caught early and should result in a short hospital stay, an Ali spokesman said Saturday night.
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