| What you need to know about Lincoln Chafee Posted:  A long-shot candidate, the former Rhode Island governor joined the Democratic Party just two years ago.
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| Transgender woman pushed onto N.Y. subway tracks in possible hate crime Posted: 03 Jun 2015 04:30 PM PDT  An incident involving a transgender woman who was pushed onto subway tracks in a New York City subway station is being investigated as a possible hate crime, the New York Police Department said today.
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| FBI: Boston knifeman had talked of attacking 'boys in blue' Posted: 03 Jun 2015 04:20 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — A knife-wielding man killed by the terror investigators who had him under surveillance was confronted because he had bought knives and talked of an imminent attack on "boys in blue," the FBI said Wednesday.
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| Slain Boston man had planned to behead police officers: FBI Posted: 03 Jun 2015 01:59 PM PDT  By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts man slain by law enforcement officers on Tuesday had discussed plans to behead police officers with an associate arrested the same day, according to papers filed in Boston federal court on Wednesday. Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, 26, who law enforcement officers shot to death after he allegedly confronted them with a large knife, had told David Wright "I'm just going to, ah, go after them, those boys in blue," an FBI agent involved in the investigation said in an affidavit. Rahim had ordered three knives, with blades ranging in length from 8 inches (20 cm) to 9.75 inches (25 cm), from online retailers and had joked in wire-tapped phone conversations with Wright, 24, about "thinking with your head on your chest," according to the affidavit.
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| After three decades on death row, Texas inmate Bower executed Posted: 03 Jun 2015 05:03 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed Lester Bower, one of the longest-serving inmates on the state's death row who had said he was wrongly convicted of killing four men in 1983 and had spent three decades trying to halt his capital punishment. Bower was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. CDT after being given a lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said. A former chemical salesman with two children, Bower became the oldest death row inmate put to death in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
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| Judge in Colorado cinema murder trial rejects defense request for mistrial Posted: 03 Jun 2015 03:41 PM PDT  By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo., (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the murder trial of Colorado theater gunman James Holmes denied a motion by defense lawyers for a mistrial on Wednesday over videos shown to jurors of a psychiatrist's interviews with the admitted shooter. Public defender Kristen Nelson argued that a video played in court, in which Holmes described details of the crime to court-appointed psychiatrist William Reid, violated his constitutional right against self-incrimination. It was the second time Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour has denied a defense motion for a mistrial since Reid took the stand late last week.
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| A tumultuous week ends as Blatter gets standing ovation Posted: 03 Jun 2015 02:47 PM PDT  A day after announcing his decision to resign, Sepp Blatter was back at work at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday as the worst corruption crisis in the governing body's 111-year history continued to unfold.
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| New case may hold clues about missing Indiana student Posted: 02 Jun 2015 02:53 PM PDT  The mysterious case of Lauren Spierer has bewildered detectives in the charming college town of Bloomington, Ind., ever since June 2011, when the Indiana University sophomore disappeared after a night of partying. Nearly four years later, the death of another IU student and the interest of a former FBI investigator turned TV crime show host are breathing new life into the cold case.
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| Ukraine battle tests cease-fire to breaking point Posted: 03 Jun 2015 11:02 AM PDT  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A major battle erupted Wednesday on the western edge of the main separatist rebel stronghold in eastern Ukraine, leaving more than a dozen dead and threatening to tip the country back into full-blown war.
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| George W. Bush now more popular than Obama Posted: 03 Jun 2015 08:29 AM PDT  A new CNN/ORC poll finds a majority view the former president favorably for the first time in more than a decade.
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