| Vermont's Sanders kicks off 2016 bid Posted: 26 May 2015 04:30 PM PDT  Challenging Hillary Clinton from the left, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders kicked off his presidential bid Tuesday with a pitch to liberals to join him in a "political revolution" to transform the nation's economy and politics.
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| Floodwaters deepen in Houston after city gets more rain Posted: 26 May 2015 04:36 PM PDT  Officials have confirmed 11 deaths so far in holiday weekend storms in Oklahoma and Texas.
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| What would White House be like without a dog? Posted:  Every president since Theodore Roosevelt has had a dog in the White House, and almost certainly the next one will, too —unless it's Bernie Sanders.
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| Cleveland, Justice Department announce police settlement Posted: 26 May 2015 04:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cleveland officials and the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday announced their settlement over a pattern of excessive force and civil rights violations by the city's police department.
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| Appeals panel won't lift hold on Obama immigration action Posted: 26 May 2015 03:42 PM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Barack Obama's plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. from deportation remained on hold Tuesday after a federal appeals court panel refused to allow it to take effect immediately.
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| Governor says deadly flooding is worst ever seen in Texas area Posted: 26 May 2015 04:36 PM PDT  By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday likened the ferocity of flash flooding that killed at least three people to a tsunami, and authorities said a dam had given way in a state park. Abbott declared states of disaster in 24 counties and flew over the area south of Austin to assess the damage caused by tornadoes, heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flooding that forced evacuations and rooftop rescues and left thousands of residents without electricity. "This is the biggest flood this area of Texas has ever seen," Abbott said.
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| Data thieves gain access to 100,000 U.S. taxpayers' information: IRS Posted: 26 May 2015 03:09 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. From February to May, attackers sought to gain access to personal tax information 200,000 times through the agency's "Get Transcript" online application, which calls up information from previous returns, he told a news conference. The breach did not affect any IRS data outside the "Get Transcript" application, and the agency said it would strengthen its security measures.
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| Colorado movie gunman wrote of 'obsession to kill' since childhood Posted: 26 May 2015 04:44 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reuters) - Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes wrote in a notebook he sent to his psychiatrist prior to opening fire in a suburban theater that he had harbored an "obsession to kill" since childhood, a police officer testified at his murder trial on Tuesday. Holmes mailed a package to the psychiatrist that included the notebook a day before he opened fire inside a cinema in the Denver suburb of Aurora during a screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises." Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for Holmes if he is convicted of killing 12 moviegoers and wounding 70 others in the July 2012 rampage. Aurora Police Sergeant Matthew Fyles read aloud excerpts from the 29-page notebook, in which Holmes allegedly wrote: "The obsession to kill since I was a kid, with age became more realistic." Fyles said that Holmes wrote in another entry that he had thought about multiple ways to kill, including with nuclear weapons and biological warfare.
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| Joint Chiefs Chairman says U.S. blindsided by fall of Mosul Posted: 26 May 2015 05:36 AM PDT  Gen. Martin Dempsey admits in a new documentary that the Pentagon did no contingency planning for the Islamic State advance.
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| Iraq begins operation to oust Islamic State from Anbar Posted: 26 May 2015 11:31 AM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq vowed Tuesday to retake Anbar province — now mostly held by the Islamic State — by launching a large-scale military operation less than two weeks after suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of the extremists in the provincial capital of Ramadi.
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| Lawyer says allegations B.B. King was poisoned 'ridiculous' Posted: 26 May 2015 02:38 AM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two B.B. King heirs who've been most outspoken about the blues legend's care in his final days have accused King's two closest aides of poisoning him, but the attorney for King's estate called the claims ridiculous and police said there was no active homicide investigation.
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| Washington Post reporter on trial in Iran for spying Posted: 26 May 2015 01:20 PM PDT  Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian went on trial behind closed doors in Iran Tuesday on charges of spying, in a case that has clouded a rapprochement with the United States. The United States blasted the trial's "complete lack of transparency", and renewed calls for Tehran to drop "absurd" spying charges that Rezaian's brother called "laughable". Rezaian's wife, Yeganeh Salehi, who is also a journalist, appeared in court alongside her husband and a female press photographer, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
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