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John Boehner stuck in limbo as speaker after Kevin McCarthy withdraws bid
Ben Carson: Holocaust aided by gun control
Hillary Clinton’s lack of Wall Street backers
Republicans in chaos as favorite quits House leadership race
France train attack hero Stone stabbed in California
Student slain in Oregon college shooting honored at memorial
Feds offer little guidance to Islamic State recruits too young to prosecute
Hero in French train attack reportedly stabbed
Kevin McCarthy drops out of race for House speaker
Guns, Congress and Murphy's Law
Rupert Murdoch apologizes for suggesting Ben Carson would be a 'real black president'
Clinton server hack attempts came from China, Korea, Germany
Rupert Murdoch suggests Obama isn't 'real black president'
Search ends for survivors of hurricane-hit U.S. cargo ship
Rupert Murdoch: Ben Carson would be a "real black President"

John Boehner stuck in limbo as speaker after Kevin McCarthy withdraws bid

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Ben Carson: Holocaust aided by gun control

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 03:20 PM PDT

Republican candidate Ben Carson continued his controversial remarks about guns Thursday -- suggesting in a new interview that the Jews may have been able to diminish the likelihood of the Holocaust if they were armed.

Hillary Clinton’s lack of Wall Street backers

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Republicans in chaos as favorite quits House leadership race

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 04:50 PM PDT

By Susan Cornwell and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Washington struggled to fill a leadership void on Thursday as the front-runner to take control of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, quit the race in a surprise announcement that heightened concerns about the party's ability to govern effectively. Representative McCarthy, the No. ...

France train attack hero Stone stabbed in California

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 12:17 PM PDT

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - U.S. Air Force airman Spencer Stone, one of the three Americans who thwarted an August train attack in France, was stabbed several times during a fight outside a Sacramento bar early on Thursday and was hospitalized in serious condition, police said. The fight was not related to Stone's role in taking down the gunman on a train headed to Paris and there was no connection to terrorism, Sacramento Deputy Police Chief Ken Bernard told a news conference. Stone's assailant, who has not been caught, is not believed to have known Stone's identity, Bernard said.

Student slain in Oregon college shooting honored at memorial

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 03:37 PM PDT

Mourners on Thursday remembered a student who was among 10 people who died in a shooting rampage at an Oregon community college, in the first of a series of publicly announced memorial services for the victims. The service for Jason Johnson, 33, took place a week after gunman Chris Harper-Mercer, 26, opened fire at Umpqua Community College in the former timber town of Roseburg. Police exchanged gunfire with Harper-Mercer, and after he was wounded, he shot himself to death.

Feds offer little guidance to Islamic State recruits too young to prosecute

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Hero in French train attack reportedly stabbed

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 08:56 AM PDT

CBS News is reporting that Spencer Stone, the U.S. airman who helped foil a terror attack on a French train this summer, was stabbed Wednesday night.

Kevin McCarthy drops out of race for House speaker

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Guns, Congress and Murphy's Law

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Rep. Tim Murphy's sensible bill on mental health and guns is unlikely to become law.

Rupert Murdoch apologizes for suggesting Ben Carson would be a 'real black president'

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Clinton server hack attempts came from China, Korea, Germany

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 08:36 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email server, containing an electronic inventory of some 55,000 pages of emails from her stint as secretary of state, was repeatedly hit by attempted cyberattacks originating in China, South Korea and Germany in 2014, according to a congressional document obtained by The Associated Press.

Rupert Murdoch suggests Obama isn't 'real black president'

Posted: 08 Oct 2015 06:22 AM PDT

The media mogul makes the comment while comparing GOP candidate Ben Carson to the president.

Search ends for survivors of hurricane-hit U.S. cargo ship

Posted: 07 Oct 2015 05:47 PM PDT

By Susan Cooper Eastman JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday ended its search for missing crew of the cargo ship El Faro that sank off the Bahamas last week after sailing into the path of Hurricane Joaquin. An exhaustive air and sea search for possible survivors was called off at sunset, six days after communication was lost with the ship and the 33 people aboard, the Coast Guard said. The decision came a day after federal safety officials arrived in Jacksonville, Florida, El Faro's home port, to launch an investigation into what maritime experts have called the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged vessel in more than 30 years.