| Fallout lingers after UVA rape investigation suspended Posted: 22 Mar 2015 03:53 PM PDT  Katie Couric and guests analyze the findings of a probe sparked by a "Rolling Stone" story.
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| Warrant: Ferguson shooting suspect confessed on hidden cam Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:00 PM PDT A confidential informant wearing a hidden video camera recorded accused gunman Jeffrey L. Williams admitting that he fired the shots that seriously wounded two police officers during a recent demonstration in Ferguson, Mo., according to search warrants obtained by Yahoo News. |
| Poll: Most Boston residents oppose death penalty for Tsarnaev Posted: 23 Mar 2015 01:39 PM PDT  A new poll finds most Boston residents oppose the death penalty for admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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| Supreme Court grapples with free-speech case pegged to Confederate flag Posted: 23 Mar 2015 01:24 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dispute over a proposed Confederate battle flag license plate, the Supreme Court struggled Monday to balance worries about government censorship and concerns that offensive messages could, at worst, incite violence.
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| Can Ted Cruz go from obstructionist in chief to commander in chief? Posted: 22 Mar 2015 02:27 PM PDT  His bid will test whether he can run largely on his very active role in slowing the Senate to a legislative standstill.
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| New Orleans judge declares Robert Durst major flight risk, denies bail Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:22 PM PDT  By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, was denied bail on Monday after a judge deemed him to be a potential danger to others and a likely flight risk. Durst, recently featured in the HBO documentary "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," must remain in Louisiana on local weapons charges at least until his next court date on April 2, Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell ruled. Durst's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, did not seek bail but argued his client's arrest and the search of his hotel room earlier this month in New Orleans were improper, and that investigators wrongly interviewed him without counsel present. The HBO documentary broadcast Durst being presented with evidence that his handwriting appeared to match that of Berman's likely killer.
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| Boston bomb suspect influenced by Al Qaeda: expert witness Posted: 23 Mar 2015 01:28 PM PDT  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was heavily influenced by al Qaeda literature and lectures, some of which was found on his laptop, a counterterrorism expert testified at his trial on Monday. Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, said some of Tsarnaev's Twitter posts and parts of a note he scrawled inside a drydocked boat where he was captured several days after the deadly marathon attack resembled Islamist publications. "We see in them (concepts from) al-Awlaki's statements and other writings from the radicalizers," Levitt said, referring to Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Al Qaeda figure who published lectures and a glossy English-language magazine about violent jihad found on Tsarnaev's computer. Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee the city.
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| Ex-NFL star Sharper admits to sexual assaults in California, Arizona Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:39 PM PDT  By Daina Beth Solomon and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former NFL star Darren Sharper admitted in court on Monday to drugging and raping women in California and Arizona and was expected to plead guilty in similar Nevada and Louisiana cases in plea deals prosecutors say will land him in prison for at least nine years. Appearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Sharper entered a plea of no-contest, the legal equivalent of guilty, to two counts of rape by use of drugs and four counts of furnishing a controlled substance, the prescription sleep medication Zolpidem, sold under the brand name Ambien. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said the five-time Pro Bowl National Football League safety was expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison under the terms of his plea deal there. Formal sentencing on the California charges was set for July 15.
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| New Hampshire lawmaker opposes fourth graders’ bird bill with antiabortion rant Posted: 22 Mar 2015 10:44 AM PDT  A group of New Hampshire fourth graders recently went on a field trip to the state legislature to see how a bill becomes a law. Instead, they got a lesson in government dysfunction.
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| Sen. Ted Cruz launches 2016 campaign at world's largest Christian college Posted: 23 Mar 2015 12:01 PM PDT  The presidential hopeful courted conservatives with his kickoff speech.
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