| Bloody Sundays: Violence against peaceful protesters from Selma to Belfast Posted: 06 Mar 2015 11:09 AM PST  President Obama plans to visit Selma to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.
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| Could an app from Umbrella Revolution be used in presidential election? Posted: 06 Mar 2015 09:27 AM PST  FireChat wants to move beyond its status as an off-the-Web resource to a messaging service that can be used on the go, and online, to create massive chat rooms in which campaigns can communicate directly with their supporters over their smartphones.
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| Sen. Menendez: I've behaved appropriately in office Posted: 06 Mar 2015 04:53 PM PST  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, under federal investigation for his relationship with a Florida doctor and political donor, is expected to face criminal charges in the coming weeks, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
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| Ted Cruz’s Texas two-step: Hired gun for Google Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:35 AM PST  Facing an investigation in 2010, the Web behemoth turned to an unlikely ally for help.
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| Battling America’s other PTSD crisis Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:28 AM PST  The fight that started Keith Davis on a path to a new life began when he was buying marijuana. It was early afternoon on Aug. 8. As he tells it, he was in at his usual hangout in North Central Philadelphia, in front of an abandoned church at 18th and Ridge. He was taking too long mulling over his purchase, and another man got impatient and told him to go buy his stuff somewhere else.
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| Obama criticizes Ferguson as city seeks settlement over racial bias Posted: 06 Mar 2015 04:08 PM PST  President Barack Obama condemned the Missouri city of Ferguson on Friday for "oppressive and abusive" actions against African-Americans that were laid bare in a U.S. Justice Department report accusing police and court officials of racial bias. The president's comments came as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday dismantling the city's police department was a possibility. "That means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure." Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said three city workers who demonstrated "egregious racial bias" are no longer employed by the city, and said Ferguson officials are pursuing other reforms to try to reach a settlement with the Justice Department.
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| CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops: agency chief Posted: 06 Mar 2015 02:08 PM PST  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Central Intelligence Agency will make one of the biggest overhauls in its nearly 70-year history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating digital innovations, CIA director John Brennan said. Brennan said he is creating new units within the CIA, called "mission centers," intended to concentrate the agency's focus on specific challenges or geographic areas, such as weapons proliferation or Africa. The CIA director said he also is establishing a new "Directorate of Digital Innovation" to lead efforts to track and take advantage of advances in cyber technology to gather intelligence. Historically, electronic eavesdroppers at the National Security Agency have been at the cutting edge of digital innovation within the U.S. government.
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| Federal team pores over data from Delta jet in NYC accident Posted: 06 Mar 2015 03:20 PM PST  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal safety investigators have started poring over flight data and cockpit voice recordings from the Delta Air Lines jetliner that skidded off a runway at New York's LaGuardia Airport during a snowstorm, officials said on Friday. A second team from the National Transportation Safety Board would begin interviewing the crew of Delta Flight 1086 on Saturday and review maintenance records, the NTSB said in a statement. The interviews will take place in Atlanta, where Delta has its headquarters. The accident forced the shutdown for more than three hours of LaGuardia Airport, snarling air traffic along the U.S. East Coast and exacerbating weather-related disruptions.
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| Ky. interstates packed with stranded motorists after storm Posted: 05 Mar 2015 05:53 PM PST  Thousands of stranded motorists endured agonizingly long waits Thursday lasting nearly 24 hours for some as a winter storm walloped Kentucky with up to 2 feet of snow and frustrated travelers dealt with gas tanks and stomachs close to empty.
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