| Boston police officer shoots and kills terror suspect Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:40 PM PDT  A Boston police officer has shot and killed a Massachusetts man who had been under surveillance by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, ABC News has learned. The FBI had been tracking 26-year-old Usaama Rahim for several weeks, and authorities are looking into whether he may have been radicalized by ISIS propaganda online, law enforcement sources said.
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| Congress sends NSA phone-records bill to president Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:32 PM PDT  The bill revives and remakes a disputed post-9/11 surveillance program two days after letting it temporarily expire.
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| 'Call me Caitlyn': Vanity Fair editor and stylist talk to Katie Couric Posted: 02 Jun 2015 08:48 AM PDT  Buzz Bissinger and stylist Jessica Diehl share the story behind Caitlyn Jenner's debut.
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| U.S. Congress reverses post September 11 surveillance program Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:59 PM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed legislation reforming a government surveillance program that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records, sending the bill to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law. Reversing security policy in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the bill would end a system exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Passage of the USA Freedom Act, the result of an alliance between Senate Democrats and some of the chamber's most conservative Republicans, was a victory for Obama, a Democrat, and a setback for Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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| Colorado theater shooter views death, life sentences as equal punishments Posted: 02 Jun 2015 03:10 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes told a psychiatrist that he views life in prison and execution as equal punishments but wants his life spared out of concern for his family, jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Tuesday. The disclosure from the former neuroscience graduate student now on trial for opening fire in a Denver-area cinema came during a videotaped interview session conducted last year by court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid that was shown in court. Holmes, 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to fatally shooting 12 moviegoers and wounding dozens more during a shooting rampage at a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in July 2012.
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| Obama awards posthumous Medals of Honor to World War One soldiers Posted: 02 Jun 2015 12:28 PM PDT  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded posthumous Medals of Honor to two soldiers from World War One, one an African American and the other a Jew, who arguably were denied the honor earlier because of discrimination. The medals, the United States' highest military honor for valor, went to Sergeant William Shemin of Bayonne, New Jersey, and Private Henry Johnson, of Albany, New York, 97 years after they saved comrades on French battlefields. "They both risked their own lives to save the lives of others," Obama said in the White House ceremony.
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| Sepp Blatter says he will resign as FIFA president Posted: 02 Jun 2015 09:55 AM PDT  Sepp Blatter, FIFA's long-time president, announced on Tuesday that he will be resigning as soon as an extraordinary FIFA congress has elected a successor.
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| Report tells of rapid capsize on China cruise ship Posted: 02 Jun 2015 07:00 AM PDT  Tour guide Zhang Hui "had 30 seconds to grab a life jacket," before the ship overturned in China's mighty Yangtze river during a storm Monday night, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. The 43-year old and a colleague "grabbed everything they could reach and kept their heads above water" as the ship sank, Xinhua said. More than a dozen people have been been saved from the Dongfangzhixing, or "Eastern Star," which went down on the popular tourist route from the eastern city of Nanjing to the southwestern city of Chongqing, Xinhua said.
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