| 1 seriously injured in Manhattan partial building collapse Posted: 25 Feb 2015 12:26 PM PST  Emergency workers say collapse occurred at a 3-story building that was under construction.
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| ‘American Sniper’ guilty verdict draws brisk, blunt reactions from Texans Posted: 25 Feb 2015 12:25 PM PST  STEPHENVILLE, Texas — The "American Sniper" murder trial was closely followed in this rural town, but also drew international attention in part because of the Oscar-winning blockbuster film based on Chris Kyle's memoir of his four tours in Iraq. Late Tuesday, a jury took a little more than two hours to find an ex-Marine guilty of gunning down Kyle and his friend, Chad Littlefield, two years ago. "Most people around here, if you talk to them, would say that they think he's guilty," Lana Karlberg said.
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| FCC to vote to regulate net neutrality Thursday: What it means Posted: 25 Feb 2015 02:59 PM PST  The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote Thursday on a new set of Internet service rules. For all those who've avoided the net neutrality conversation, it's not too late. In fact, there's no better time to start paying attention.
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| Bipartisan deal paves way for Homeland Security vote Posted: 25 Feb 2015 04:01 PM PST  Democrats support GOP's plan without immigration provisions opposed by President Obama.
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| 3 nabbed in N.Y., Florida in plot to join Islamic State group Posted: 25 Feb 2015 04:23 PM PST  The men are accused of plotting to travel to Syria to wage war against the U.S.
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| ‘American Sniper’ jury finds ex-Marine guilty of murder Posted: 25 Feb 2015 12:35 AM PST  Eddie Ray Routh is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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| Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel forced into April runoff election Posted: 24 Feb 2015 09:42 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel failed to capture a majority of the vote Tuesday in his bid for a second term, an embarrassment for the former White House chief of staff who now faces a runoff against Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.
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| Official says Afghan avalanches kill at least 124 people Posted: 25 Feb 2015 11:18 AM PST  PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) — Avalanches caused by a heavy winter snow killed at least 124 people in northeastern Afghanistan, an emergency official said Wednesday, as rescuers clawed through debris with their hands to save those buried beneath.
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| N.Korea may have 100 atomic arms by 2020 Posted: 24 Feb 2015 01:39 PM PST  North Korea appears poised to expand its nuclear program over the next five years and in a worst case scenario could possess 100 atomic arms by 2020, US researchers warned Tuesday. Unveiling the first results of what will be a 15-month study, Joel Wit, senior fellow at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, said some of their conclusions were very "disturbing." Although North Korea's nuclear program remains shrouded in uncertainty, Pyongyang is currently believed to have a stockpile of some 10 to 16 nuclear weapons fashioned from either plutonium or weapons-grade uranium.
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| No relief: More cold, snow, ice, wintry mix for much of US Posted: 24 Feb 2015 07:27 PM PST  A wide swath of the country shivered in freezing, record-breaking temperatures while other areas saw more winter precipitation Tuesday.
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| California train crash was an accident, lawyer for truck driver says Posted: 25 Feb 2015 03:04 PM PST  By Dana Feldman VENTURA, Calif. (Reuters) - A lawyer for the driver whose truck was hit by a California commuter train in a wreck that injured 50 people said on Wednesday the crash was an accident and that his client left the scene only to try to find help. Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez, 54, was found walking and "in distress" more than a mile from the accident on Tuesday and was later taken into custody on suspicion of felony hit-and-run for leaving the scene. Ventura County prosecutors said they expected to file formal charges against Sanchez-Ramirez on Thursday before his initial court appearance. Ron Bamieh, an attorney for Sanchez-Ramirez, told a news conference on Wednesday: "What we've found in the time we've had this case is that this was an accident, all this was an accident." Bamieh confirmed his client had been arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in 1998 but said there was no indication he was intoxicated at the time of the rail crash.
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| U.S. charges three with conspiring to support Islamic State Posted: 25 Feb 2015 03:31 PM PST By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three men were charged on Wednesday with conspiring to support Islamic State, including two who planned to travel to Syria to fight on behalf of the radical group, U.S. authorities said. One of the men, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, of Kazakhstan, was arrested on Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, where authorities said he was attempting to board a flight to Turkey on his way to Syria. Another defendant, Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, of Uzbekistan, previously purchased a ticket for a March flight to Istanbul, said Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn. Abror Habibov, 30, of Uzbekistan, was accused of funding Saidakhmetov's efforts. |
| U.S. refinery strike continues with no steps toward settlement Posted: 25 Feb 2015 02:56 PM PST  The largest U.S. refinery strike since 1980 continued through its 25th day on Wednesday with no movement toward renewed talks to end a walkout by 6,550 union workers at 15 plants, including 12 refineries accounting for one-fifth of domestic capacity. A spokesman for lead refinery owner representative Shell Oil Co, the U.S. arm of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, said no face-to-face meetings have been scheduled with the United Steelworkers union (USW) as of Wednesday. Talks for a new three-year contract covering 30,000 USW members at refineries and chemical plants broke off on Friday, after which the USW ordered strikes at three Motiva Enterprises refineries, which are co-owned by Shell. Talks on local issues are set to begin again on Friday between LyondellBasell and the USW local union representing workers at the company's Houston refinery, said sources close to the negotiations.
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| Netanyahu declines Democrats' invitation for meeting during visit Posted: 24 Feb 2015 05:25 PM PST  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined on Tuesday an invitation to meet with U.S. Senate Democrats during his trip to Washington next week. "Though I greatly appreciate your kind invitation to meet with Democratic Senators, I believe that doing so at this time could compound the misperception of partisanship regarding my upcoming visit," Netanyahu wrote in a letter to Senators Richard Durbin and Dianne Feinstein obtained by Reuters. Durbin and Feinstein, two senior Senate Democrats, invited Netanyahu to a closed-door meeting with Democratic senators in a letter on Monday, warning that making U.S.-Israeli relations a partisan political issue could have "lasting repercussions." Republican congressional leaders broke diplomatic protocol by consulting neither the White House nor Democrats in Congress before inviting Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and Senate.
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