| White House calls story about Osama bin Laden raid ‘baseless’ Posted: 11 May 2015 11:54 AM PDT  Famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh is standing by his controversial account of the 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden despite a growing chorus of critics.
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| NFL suspends Brady 4 games for deflated footballs Posted: 11 May 2015 04:33 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL came down hard on its biggest star and its championship team, telling Tom Brady and the Patriots that no one is allowed to mess with the rules of the game.
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| Texas teen tweets of love for his truck during flood rescue Posted:  'A massive wave pushed me off the road,' teen says on Twitter
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| Latest Zimmerman dust-up linked to prior road rage incident Posted: 11 May 2015 05:02 PM PDT  LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who has had a series of run-ins with girlfriends, his ex-wife and random strangers since killing an unarmed black teenager, narrowly missed getting shot Monday after a mysterious dispute.
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| Tornadoes kill at least 5 in Texas and Arkansas Posted: 11 May 2015 04:43 PM PDT  A young couple died trying to shield their daughter from the storm.
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| Funeral set for 1 of 2 slain Mississippi offers; man charged Posted: 11 May 2015 04:43 PM PDT  With lowered flags and prayers, a southern Mississippi city is mourning two police officers, while the four people arrested after their shooting deaths await an initial court appearance Monday.
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| Tsarnaev defense: Feds haven't shown impact of boy's death Posted: 11 May 2015 04:26 PM PDT  Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case Monday to save him from the death penalty, portraying him as an impressionable teenager from a troubled family who was lured into the deadly plot by his radicalized older brother.
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| Obama: Warren ‘absolutely wrong’ on trade deal Posted:  In an interview with Yahoo, President Obama defended what would be a historic trade pact with 11 Asian countries against criticism from Senator Warren and other members of his own party, who say the deal could hurt labor and environmental interests.
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| Chief: Memo wouldn't have changed cartoon contest response Posted: 11 May 2015 04:54 PM PDT  The Texas police department protecting a controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest wouldn't have changed their response even if they had known about an FBI memo sent to local authorities about one of the gunmen beforehand, the department's chief said Monday.
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| Oil leak cleanup after nuclear plant transformer fire Posted: 11 May 2015 03:24 AM PDT  Part of a New York nuclear power plant remains offline as cleanup continues of transformer fluid that leaked into the Hudson River. The plant owner says it could be weeks before Indian Point 3 is reopened. ...
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| Boston bomber told nun 'no one' should suffer as his victims did Posted: 11 May 2015 11:52 AM PDT  By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bomber on Monday wrapped up the case to spare Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's life with testimony from a Roman Catholic nun and death-penalty opponent who said Tsarnaev told her "no one deserves to suffer" as his victims had. Since testimony began in Boston federal court in early March, the jury has heard from about 150 witness, including parents who lost children in the attack, first responders who attended to victims who had lost limbs, and Tsarnaev's Russian relatives who remembered him as a loving young boy.
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| Texas, Arkansas tornadoes kill at least 4, shatter homes Posted: 11 May 2015 01:44 PM PDT  By Lisa Maria Garza and Steve Barnes VAN, Texas/LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Emergency crews were cleaning up on Monday from tornadoes that killed at least four people and injured 50 others in Texas and Arkansas that were part of a twister series to hit central states overnight, flattening buildings and snapping power lines. A husband and wife were killed near a trailer park in Van, Texas, about 70 miles (115 km) southeast of Dallas, a town of about 2,500 people where scores of homes were reduced to splinters. The National Weather Service said an EF3 tornado packing winds of around 140 mph (225 kph) hit the town. Near the west Arkansas town of Nashville, a baby girl about 18 months old was pulled from the wreckage of a mobile home where her parents died in a tornado there.
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| NFL suspends Brady four games for 'Deflategate,' fines Patriots Posted: 11 May 2015 04:41 PM PDT  The National Football League came down hard on the New England Patriots on Monday for their role in Deflategate, suspending star quarterback Tom Brady for the first four games of next season and fining the franchise $1 million. The NFL also said the Patriots will forfeit their first-round selection in the 2016 draft and a fourth-round pick in 2017 for using under-inflated footballs in last season's AFC Championship game. Ted Wells, an attorney hired by the NFL to investigate the allegations, said in a 243-page report that it was "more probable than not" that Patriots personnel "were involved in a deliberate effort" to circumvent rules by using deflated footballs in the team's 45-7 win over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC championship game.
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