| Senate adopts GOP budget targeting Obamacare Posted: 05 May 2015 03:11 PM PDT  The Senate has adopted a compromise GOP budget, paving the way for an assault on President Barack Obama's health care law this summer and a partisan showdown over spending bills this fall.
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| Mike Huckabee formally announces 2016 White House bid Posted:  Huckabee, who is popular with the religious right, announced in his hometown of Hope.
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| Capital murder indictment returned in U.Va. slaying case Posted: 05 May 2015 03:36 PM PDT  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The man accused of abducting and killing a University of Virginia student has been charged with capital murder and a prosecutor said Tuesday she will seek the death penalty.
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| Ron Paul ad predicts currency crisis, civil unrest Posted:  The 79-year-old warns of a coming economic armageddon — one not backed up by mainstream economic projections.
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| Boston bomber's lawyer points to family dysfunction Posted: 05 May 2015 11:54 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers called a Russian historian and a psychiatrist to the stand Tuesday in a bid to save the Boston Marathon bomber from the death penalty by portraying him as the product of a dysfunctional family from a turbulent corner of the world.
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| Marine general chosen Joint Chiefs chairman Posted: 05 May 2015 12:59 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tapped a highly respected combat commander as his next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Tuesday, signaling that the battles against al-Qaida and Islamic State militants threatening the Middle East and the West remain top priorities for the nation's military despite years of trying to change the focus to Asia.
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| U.S. probing Islamic State claims it was behind Texas cartoon attack Posted: 05 May 2015 01:14 PM PDT  By Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. investigators were looking into claims by the Islamic State that it was behind a failed attack on a Texas exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in which two gunmen were killed, but officials said on Tuesday they doubted the militant group's direct involvement. The Syria- and Iraq-based Islamic State (IS) said on its official online radio station that "two soldiers of the caliphate" carried out the attack on Sunday in Garland, a suburb of Dallas.
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| Elder Boston bomber was cruel, dominating, witnesses testify Posted: 05 May 2015 12:56 PM PDT  By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - The older of the two brothers in the Boston Marathon bombing was a controlling boyfriend who terrified his future wife's friends but held great influence in his family, witnesses testified as lawyers fought to save the younger brother's life. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died four days after the April 15, 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264. His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, last month was convicted of carrying out the attack and could be sentenced to death. The lawyers, who at the trial's opening in March conceded that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had committed all the crimes of which he was accused, contend that Tamerlan was the driving force behind the bombing, with his younger brother going along out of a sense of sibling loyalty.
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| In Baltimore, U.S. attorney general pledges to help police reform Posted: 05 May 2015 02:03 PM PDT  New U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday met with Baltimore officials and the family of a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries sustained in police custody last month and vowed to help the city pursue police reform. Lynch visited Baltimore days after the city's chief prosecutor brought criminal charges, including one murder charge, against six officers involved in the April 12 arrest of Freddie Gray. Gray's death was the latest in a series of unarmed black men involving police officers across the United States and provoked weeks of largely peaceful protests punctuated by a day of arson and looting in Baltimore on April 27. "We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things." Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby said last Friday that there had been no legal basis for Gray's arrest.
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| Eyeing the White House again, Huckabee can’t escape lifelong anxieties about money Posted: 05 May 2015 02:00 AM PDT Eyeing the White House again, Huckabee can't escape lifelong anxieties about money Mike Huckabee could add a populist edge to the Republican field. Huckabee and a close friend from Arkansas, David Haak, who owns the house next door, spent months combing the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida for the "sweet spot" where they could build homes they would eventually retire in. Owning a house next to the ocean, he said, "was something I had never even imagined." His beachfront enclave, valued at just under $3 million, is a long way from his hometown of Hope, Ark., where Huckabee grew up in a tiny rental house next to the railroad tracks on the poor side of town — not far from where Hope's other famous son, President Bill Clinton, once lived. |
| Garland shooting suspect's father says son 'made a bad choice' Posted: 04 May 2015 07:53 PM PDT  The father of one of the suspected gunmen in the Garland, Texas, shooting told ABC News today that his son "made a bad choice." "We are Americans and we believe in America," Dunston Simpson said. "What my son did reflects very badly on my family."
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| Obama jokes with Letterman about post-retirement life Posted: 05 May 2015 12:08 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama is envisioning a future of playing dominoes with retiree David Letterman.
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| Obama-inspired foundation gets its start, with $80 million in the bank Posted:  President Barack Obama announced Monday that a new nonprofit aimed at empowering young men and boys of color has already raised $80 million from PepsiCo, Deloitte and other corporate sponsors.
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| Boston bomber emotional as aunt breaks down on stand Posted: 04 May 2015 01:35 PM PDT  Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed emotion in court for the first time on Monday, wiping his eyes as a distraught aunt was removed from the courtroom, too overcome to testify. A jury is mulling whether Tsarnaev -- found guilty last month of all counts related to the April 15, 2013 attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded 264 more -- should be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. Last week, his defense team began presenting evidence in a bid to save his life, and had arranged for his aunt, 64-year-old Patimat Suleimanova, to come from Russia to testify.
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| Obama on protests: 'There are consequences to indifference' Posted: 04 May 2015 08:37 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — In a deeply personal response to outbreaks of racially motivated protests, President Barack Obama on Monday blamed a lack of opportunity in minority communities and harsher treatment of black and Hispanic men by police for fueling a sense of "unfairness and powerlessness."
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