| Lawsuit: Ferguson probe was botched from start Posted: 23 Apr 2015 03:16 PM PDT  Ex-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson destroyed potentially crucial evidence shortly after fatally shooting Michael Brown, the slain teen's family alleges in a lawsuit filed Thursday.
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| Oklahoma’s earthquakes triggered by wastewater disposal wells Posted: 23 Apr 2015 02:23 PM PDT  Oklahoma state scientists shook the ground on which the oil and gas industry stands by linking their practices to earthquakes. Now the state needs to pick up the pieces.
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| Lynch becomes U.S. attorney general, first black woman in post Posted: 23 Apr 2015 01:04 PM PDT  The Senate confirmed Loretta Lynch as the nation's first black female attorney general Thursday, installing an aggressive counter-terrorism prosecutor as the top law enforcement official for President Barack Obama's final 21 months in office.
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| Petraeus sentenced to 2 years' probation for military leak Posted: 23 Apr 2015 03:21 PM PDT  Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, has been sentenced to two years' probation and a $100,000 fine for giving her classified material while she was working on the book.
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| Obama takes blame for strike that killed hostages Posted: 23 Apr 2015 03:25 PM PDT  The White House said Thursday that a US operation in January against an Al Qaeda compound near the Afghan-Pakistan border killed one American and one Italian hostage, along with an American member of the jihadist group. Another American, Al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, was killed, "likely in a separate US government counterterrorism operation." "No words can fully express our regret over this terrible tragedy," the White House said, revealing the previously classified finding. The president "takes full responsibility for these operations." US President Barack Obama expressed his profound regrets to their families. The White House identified the hostages killed in the operation against the border compound as US contractor Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto.
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| ‘Clinton Cash’: Donations to Bill and Hillary’s foundation scrutinized ahead of book Posted: 23 Apr 2015 10:04 AM PDT Four separate stories published Wednesday and Thursday — by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico and Yahoo News — take a look at donations detailed in Peter Schweizer's "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich," which is due out May 5. |
| Family of black Ferguson teen killed by police sues city Posted: 23 Apr 2015 08:27 AM PDT  (Reuters) - The family of Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old killed in Ferguson last summer by a white police officer, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city on Thursday, seeking unspecified punitive damages, $75,000 in compensation and changes in policing. The civil lawsuit filed in St. Louis County, Missouri, names the city of Ferguson, former Police Chief Thomas Jackson and former police officer Darren Wilson as defendants.
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| Matt Bai: Lincoln Chafee’s 2016 run might matter more than you think Posted:  Hillary Clinton shouldn't laugh off the Republican turned Democrat as others have done in the past.
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| Hillary campaign swats at Iran charge in ‘Clinton Cash’ Posted:  A new book claims she watered down sanctions to please a company that paid her husband for a speech.
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| Ex-general, CIA chief Petraeus gets probation, $100,000 fine in leak case Posted: 23 Apr 2015 04:02 PM PDT  By Colleen Jenkins CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - Former U.S. military commander and CIA director David Petraeus was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay a$100,000 fine but was spared prison time on Thursday after pleading guilty to mishandling classified information. He agreed under a plea deal to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler raised the fine from the $40,000 that had been recommended to the maximum possible financial penalty for that charge, noting it needed to be higher to be punitive and reflect the gravity of the offense. He resigned from the CIA in 2012 after it was revealed that he was having an affair with the biographer, Army Reserve officer Paula Broadwell.
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| U.S. strike inadvertently killed U.S., Italian hostages; Obama apologizes Posted: 23 Apr 2015 02:15 PM PDT  By Will Dunham and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. drone strike in January targeting an al Qaeda compound in Pakistan near the Afghan border inadvertently killed an American and an Italian who had been held hostage for years by the group, U.S. officials said on Thursday. President Barack Obama apologized and took "full responsibility" for all counterterrorism operations, including this one. The deaths were a setback for the long-running U.S. drone strike program that has targeted Islamist militants in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere, and has often drawn criticism in those countries and from civil liberties groups in the United States. Killed in the January drone strike were aid workers Warren Weinstein, an American held by al Qaeda since 2011, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian who went missing in Pakistan in 2012, as well as Ahmed Farouq, an American who was an al Qaeda leader, U.S. officials said.
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| Michael Brown's family sues Ferguson over shooting death Posted: 23 Apr 2015 01:33 PM PDT  The family of Michael Brown filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson on Thursday, seeking unspecified damages and police reforms after the black teen's killing by a white policeman prompted a national debate on law enforcement and race. The civil lawsuit filed in St. Louis County, Missouri, names the city of Ferguson, former Police Chief Thomas Jackson and former police officer Darren Wilson as defendants.
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| Thousands evacuated as Chile volcano roars back to life Posted: 23 Apr 2015 02:59 PM PDT  Southern Chile was on alert Thursday after the Calbuco volcano erupted for the first time in half a century, lighting up the night sky with spectacular bursts of volcanic lightning and lava, and forcing some 5,000 people to evacuate. Until minutes before the blast, volcano eruption monitoring systems had picked up nothing.
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