| Pinterest removes (then reactivates) #GunFAIL boards Posted: 19 May 2015 02:55 PM PDT  David Waldman uses his #GunFAIL boards to keep track of all the children who are accidentally shot and killed in the United States.
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| Top Democrat sounds 'alarm bells' over Obama rhetoric on Islamic State Posted: 19 May 2015 12:02 PM PDT  A senior House of Representatives Democrat said Tuesday that the White House's description of supposed progress in the war against the Islamic State should ring "alarm bells," and called the fall of the city of Ramadi to the extremists "a very serious and significant setback."
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| Takata air bag recall becomes biggest ever in US Posted: 19 May 2015 11:31 AM PDT  Air bag maker Takata Corp. has agreed to declare 33.8 million of its inflator mechanisms defective, effectively doubling the number of cars and trucks that have been recalled in the U.S. so far. The announcement ...
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| Bulk domestic surveillance: Where the 2016 candidates stand Posted:  The candidates are split on one of the USA Patriot Act's most controversial provisions.
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| Los Angeles gives preliminary approval to $15 minimum wage Posted: 19 May 2015 01:53 PM PDT  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles City Council gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to raise the hourly minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 for companies with more than 25 employees, while giving smaller businesses an extra year to meet that benchmark. "We are embarking upon, I think, the most progressive minimum wage policy anywhere in the country," said City Councilman Curren Price Jr. The federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 since 2009. Opponents of minimum wage hikes say they place an undue burden on businesses and force some employers to lay off workers and pass on higher labor costs to consumers.
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| Takata doubling U.S. recall for defective air bags to 34 million vehicles Posted: 19 May 2015 03:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp is doubling a recall of potentially deadly air bags to nearly 34 million vehicles, creating the largest automotive recall in American history, U.S. safety regulators said on Tuesday. The recall involves passenger and driver-side air bag inflators in vehicles made by 11 automakers, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Takata said. Regulators on Tuesday linked six deaths worldwide to defective Takata air bags which exploded with too much force and sent shrapnel into the vehicles.
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| Prostitute pleads guilty in Google executive's heroin death Posted: 19 May 2015 02:31 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A prostitute charged with killing a Google executive by injecting him with heroin on his yacht off the California coast pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter, court officials said. Alix Catherine Tichelman, 27, was sentenced to six years in prison by a Santa Cruz Superior Court judge after she accepted a plea deal in which a manslaughter charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter, a court official said. Prosecutors say Tichelman, a high-priced call girl, injected Forrest Hayes, 51, with heroin during a tryst aboard his yacht off Santa Cruz in November 2013.
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| Patriots owner says he'll accept deflate-gate punishment Posted: 19 May 2015 10:19 AM PDT  Robert Kraft said he will accept the punishment of commissioner Roger Goodell in deflate-gate.
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| U.S. looks into whether hostage was kept by IS leader Posted: 19 May 2015 02:16 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the Islamic State militant leader killed Friday was the captor of American hostage Kayla Mueller for a time.
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| Clinton urges State Department to speed release of emails Posted: 19 May 2015 02:46 PM PDT  CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the State Department on Tuesday to speed the release of 55,000 pages of emails from her time as secretary of state, as her decision to spurn administration rules and use a private email address continued to dog her presidential campaign.
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| Motorcycle gang shootout started with parking dispute Posted: 19 May 2015 03:42 PM PDT WACO, Texas (AP) — A deadly weekend shootout involving rival motorcycle gangs apparently began with a parking dispute and someone running over a gang member's foot, police said Tuesday. |
| Unions urge Amtrak to put 2nd crew member in locomotives Posted: 19 May 2015 03:06 PM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The union for Amtrak's locomotive engineers urged the railroad on Tuesday to put a second crew member at the controls of trains on the busy Northeast Corridor, where a derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.
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