| Secret Service chief insists no crash at White House Posted: 19 Mar 2015 03:47 PM PDT  Joseph Clancy pushed back on any suggestion that his agency deliberately erased surveillance video.
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| Exclusive: Despite Hillary Clinton promise, charity did not disclose donors Posted: 19 Mar 2015 02:40 PM PDT  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 2008, Hillary Clinton promised Barack Obama, the president-elect, there would be no mystery about who was giving money to her family's globe-circling charities. She made a pledge to publish all the donors on an annual basis to ease concerns that as secretary of state she could be vulnerable to accusations of foreign influence. At the outset, the Clinton Foundation did indeed publish what they said was a complete list of the names of more than 200,000 donors and has continued to update it. In response to questions from Reuters, officials at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the foundation confirmed no complete list of donors to the Clintons' charities has been published since 2010.
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| Israeli leader backtracks from Palestinian state opposition Posted: 19 Mar 2015 11:02 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Days after winning re-election, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday backtracked from hard-line statements against the establishment of a Palestinian state in an apparent effort to contain a diplomatic backlash.
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| Judge won't release grand jury testimony in Eric Garner death Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:16 PM PDT  The judge argued there wasn't a good enough reason to release the secret information.
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| Why Mitt Romney isn't running for president Posted: 19 Mar 2015 02:23 AM PDT  The former GOP candidate tells Yahoo's Katie Couric the reason he decided not to run again.
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| IS claims deadly museum attack in Tunisia Posted: 19 Mar 2015 09:00 AM PDT  According to an online audio recording, the militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a museum in the Tunisian capital on Wednesday which killed 20 foreign tourists. It praised the two attackers whom the recording said were "knights of the Islamic State" who were armed with machineguns and bombs. (Reporting By Omar Fahmy; Writing by Noah Browning; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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| Matt Bai: A Yelp for teachers Posted: 19 Mar 2015 01:32 AM PDT  Maybe what we need, and what teachers should welcome, isn't the data on the test scores and "value-added" rankings that some parents are demanding — or, at least, not that alone. What we need is for some tech entrepreneur to come up with a Yelp or an Angie's List for public schools, because the amalgamated voice of the consumer is the most powerful kind of accountability in American life.
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| Virginia to investigate bloody arrest of black college student Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:05 AM PDT  The arrest of Martese Johnson, 20, sparks campus protests and claims of police brutality.
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| Tunisia makes arrests after deadly museum attack Posted: 19 Mar 2015 06:11 AM PDT  Authorities have arrested nine people in connection with a gun attack at the Bardo Museum in Tunis that killed 22 people and two alleged attackers, a spokeswoman for the Tunisian presidential office told ABC News.
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| Suspect in fatal Arizona shooting rampage appears in court Posted: 19 Mar 2015 03:13 PM PDT  By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona ex-convict appeared in court on Thursday accused of killing one person and wounding five others in a shooting rampage that began at a motel in suburban Phoenix and ended with the suspect's capture four hours later. Ryan Elliott Giroux, 41, who an anti-hate group says has white supremacist ties, is charged with multiple felonies including first- and second-degree murder and is being held without bond for probation violation, authorities said. Wearing striped jail clothing and shackles, the tattooed Giroux made a brief appearance at Maricopa County Superior Court where he spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth. He was read the 35 criminal counts he faces, which include aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery and kidnapping, by Court Commissioner Sigmund Popko.
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| DIY bomb instructions, device remains shown at Boston trial Posted: 19 Mar 2015 12:18 PM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing as well as jihadist files recovered from his laptop. The bomb, described as similar to the twin bombs set off at the race, was extracted from a Honda Civic in which it embedded itself on a Watertown, Massachusetts street after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, detonated it during the gunfight. The pressure cooker was the same type as was used in the bombs that killed three people and injured 264 on April 15, 2013, said Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Brian Corcoran, though the pieces found in Watertown were more intact than those discovered at the race's finish line. "Those pieces were typically more fragmented, more cut up," Corcoran testified in U.S. District Court in Boston, looking at both the main pot and its lid, which was found halfway down the block from the blast site, in a child-sized soccer goal in a home's side yard.
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| Britain's Prince Charles meets Obama on U.S. goodwill tour Posted: 19 Mar 2015 03:28 PM PDT  Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday as part of a goodwill tour of the United States. Obama and the Prince of Wales chatted amiably in front of reporters and television cameras while the Duchess of Cornwall sat smiling on a couch nearby. "I think it's fair to say that the American people are quite fond of the royal family," Obama told the prince. It was the first White House visit by Charles since May 2011.
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| One killed, five wounded in shooting spree in Phoenix suburb Posted: 18 Mar 2015 10:15 PM PDT  By David Schwartz MESA, Ariz. (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire inside a motel room in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa on Wednesday, killing a man and wounding two women before shooting three more people as he sought to elude an exhaustive manhunt that ended in his capture, police said. Officers using a stun gun subdued the suspected gunman, identified as Ryan Elliot Giroux, 41, at a vacant condominium where he had taken refuge, some four hours after the initial shooting, Mesa police spokesman Esteban Flores told reporters.
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| Affidavit: LAPD analyst's error delayed Robert Durst link Posted: 18 Mar 2015 06:23 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — A Los Angeles Police Department document examiner's erroneous handwriting analysis in 2001 delayed authorities linking millionaire Robert Durst to a friend's killing by as much as 16 months, a search warrant released Wednesday reveals.
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