| White House agrees to give Congress a say on Iran deal Posted: 14 Apr 2015 04:35 PM PDT  President Obama bows to pressure from Republicans and his own party.
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| Obama to remove Cuba from state sponsor of terror list Posted: 14 Apr 2015 02:19 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries.
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| Floyd Mayweather: ‘I’m a winner and I know how to win’ Posted: 14 Apr 2015 04:54 AM PDT  The world's highest-paid athlete talks to Katie Couric about the 'Fight of the Century.'
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| Some protesters arrested in New York march against police violence Posted: 14 Apr 2015 04:22 PM PDT  By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - At least a dozen people were arrested on Tuesday when demonstrators angered by fresh cases of U.S. police violence against unarmed black men marched across New York's Brooklyn Bridge, hoping to invigorate a national discussion on the issue. Some 250 placard-bearing activists organized by the Stop Mass Incarceration Network marched from Union Square to protest the latest incidents of violent police tactics used against minorities. "Stop murder by police" and "Stop killer cops," the signs read, as a helicopter hovered over protesters facing off against police officers. "She has homework to do," a teen who declined to give her name shouted at police as one of the people was marched onto a New York Police Department bus.
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| Durst pleads not guilty to federal gun charge in New Orleans Posted: 14 Apr 2015 01:28 PM PDT  By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Real estate scion Robert Durst, who has been charged with murder in California, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a federal gun charge stemming from his arrest last month in New Orleans. Durst's lawyers have sought his extradition to Los Angeles County, where prosecutors want him in connection with the 2000 killing of a longtime friend, Susan Berman, in a case recently chronicled in the HBO documentary series "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst." But the federal charge and similar Louisiana state weapons charges mean that Durst, 72, is likely to remain in Louisiana for the foreseeable future. Appearing frail, Durst entered his not guilty plea before Judge Lance Africk in the Eastern District of Louisiana, who scheduled a hearing in the case on June 11, with a trial to begin on June 22. The final episode of the HBO series aired a day after his March 14 arrest at a New Orleans hotel, where authorities said he was staying under an assumed name with $42,000 in cash, a revolver, about five ounces of marijuana and a latex mask.
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| Deputy in fatal shooting in Oklahoma released on bond Posted: 14 Apr 2015 09:37 AM PDT  By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A white sheriff's reserve deputy charged in the fatal shooting in Oklahoma of a black suspect in a police sting operation has been released on bond after turning himself in to authorities, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday. The volunteer deputy, Robert Bates, thought he was using a Taser instead of his gun, the Tulsa Sheriff's office has said of the incident seen in a video released over the weekend. Oklahoma prosecutors on Monday charged Bates, 73, with second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Eric Harris, 44, on April 2. Bates turned himself in after an arrest warrant was filed, and plans to plead not guilty at his preliminary hearing, his lawyer Corbin Brewster said.
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| Matt Bai: Chris Christie bets on bold Posted:  hristie's gambit on entitlements is about more than the policy. It's also about reintroducing him to primary voters as the only guy out there who is willing to tell you, in blunt terms, what you need to hear about the realities of government.
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| Live updates from Iowa: Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign event Posted: 14 Apr 2015 11:14 AM PDT  Yahoo News is following the 2016 Democratic candidate as she holds her first official events in the key state.
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| Reserve deputy turns himself in to face manslaughter charge Posted: 14 Apr 2015 03:41 PM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 73-year-old Oklahoma volunteer sheriff's deputy who authorities said fatally shot a suspect after confusing his stun gun and handgun was booked into the county jail Tuesday on a manslaughter charge.
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| How Marco Rubio’s Cuban roots explain his campaign Posted:  Rubio's views on both foreign and domestic policy—hawkish in the former instance and gentler in the latter—have been defined by his family's roots in Cuba and his experiences coming of age in Miami's exile community.
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| Ex-guards get lengthy prison sentences for Iraq shootings Posted: 13 Apr 2015 03:14 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting pleas for mercy, a federal judge on Monday sentenced former Blackwater security guard Nicholas Slatten to life in prison and three others to 30-year terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting that killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others.
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| Marco Rubio's presidential announcement Posted: The 43-year-old GOP senator presents himself as a youthful, next-generation candidate. |
| 'What’s that noise?' Plane takes off with worker in cargo hold Posted: 13 Apr 2015 06:20 PM PDT  An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing because a worker got trapped inside the cargo hold. How did it happen?
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