| Prosecutor says escaped killers used contractors' tools Posted: 14 Jun 2015 03:11 PM PDT  DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — The two killers who cut their way out of a maximum-security prison apparently used tools routinely stored there by contractors, taking care to return them to their toolboxes after each night's work so that no one would notice, a prosecutor said Sunday.
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| A different Clinton takes on a different era Posted:  The former secretary of state says "democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations" in her first major campaign rally.
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| FIFA official urges Blatter not to go back on quit promise Posted: 14 Jun 2015 01:10 PM PDT  The head of FIFA's audit and compliance unit said on Sunday that changes at the top of world football's governing body were "indispensable" following reports Sepp Blatter might go back on his decision to resign. "For me, the reforms are the central topic," wrote Domenico Scala in a statement. Scala's statement came after Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag cited an anonymous source close to Blatter as saying he had not ruled out the prospect of going back on his decision to resign after receiving messages of support from Asian and African federations.
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| New York prison escapee turns 35 on ninth day of manhunt Posted: 14 Jun 2015 08:51 AM PDT  As the hunt for a pair of inmates who escaped from an upstate New York prison entered its ninth day on Sunday, new details emerged about how a female prison worker now under arrest promised to help them in a daring breakout. Sunday also marked the 35th birthday of David Sweat, the younger of the two convicted killers who broke out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora by cutting through a steel wall and slithering through a steam pipe to a manhole on the street outside the prison's walls. Sweat and Richard Matt, 48, were discovered missing from their adjoining cells in the maximum security prison, located about 20 miles (32 km) south of the Canadian border, at 5:30 a.m. on June 6.
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| Clinton pitches to working Americans at presidential campaign rally Posted: 13 Jun 2015 06:54 PM PDT  Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised on Saturday to fight for a fairer society for ordinary Americans, staking out a place on the left to cut off any budding challenge for the Democratic nomination. In the first major rally of her campaign for the November 2016 presidential election, Clinton touched on many of the issues that energize liberal Democrats. Speaking on New York's Roosevelt Island, with Manhattan's skyscrapers as a backdrop, Clinton promised to "make the economy work for everyday Americans, not just those at the top" if elected president.
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| The voice of opposition past, Justice Kennedy may save Obamacare now Posted: 14 Jun 2015 06:05 AM PDT  By Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Justice Anthony Kennedy was furious when a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's healthcare law. As he read the dissenting opinion from the bench three years ago, his anger was palpable. It amounts instead to a vast judicial over-reaching." That was Kennedy on June 28, 2012.
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| Pope eyes worldwide audience for environment encyclical Posted: 14 Jun 2015 09:26 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is looking for a global audience for his upcoming encyclical on the environment, saying Sunday it's meant for everyone, not just Catholics.
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| Source: U.S. plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, Eastern Europe Posted: 14 Jun 2015 11:14 AM PDT  The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies unnerved by Russia's intervention in Ukraine and to deter further aggression, U.S. officials said. The move would be the first time Washington has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member states that were once in the Soviet sphere of influence or - in the case of the three Baltic republics - part of the Soviet Union.
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| Officials amazed Dallas attack wasn't deadlier Posted: 14 Jun 2015 03:53 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — The man linked to a violent assault on Dallas police headquarters was accused two years earlier of choking his mother, then fleeing to an East Texas town where schools were locked down out of fear he would attack them as "soft targets," according to accounts from police and family members.
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| Dallas suspect had talked of ‘shooting up schools and churches’ Posted: 13 Jun 2015 10:23 AM PDT  DALLAS — The suspect who attacked Dallas police headquarters overnight with a barrage of bullets and homemade explosives had a history of mental illness and violence, according to court records.
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