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Obama aide: Under new Gitmo plan, some detainees would be sent to U.S.

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 01:38 PM PDT

Speaking at the Aspen Security Conference, deputy national security advisor Lisa Monaco said the White House is drafting a plan to close the prison that it will present shortly to Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Movie theater shooter's mental problems didn't stop gun buy

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 03:31 PM PDT

Handout photo of John R. Houser in LafayetteLAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — John Russell Houser was deeply troubled long before he shot 11 people in a movie theater in Louisiana, but decades of mental problems didn't keep him from buying the handgun he used.

Firefighters swiftly extinguish fire at The Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 01:30 PM PDT

Smokes billows from a fire on the outside pool area of the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Nevada Saturday, July 25, 2015. No injuries have been reported, and the cause of the fire has not been determined. Emergency vehicles were called to the resort shortly after noon. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)A fire broke out at The Cosmopolitan Hotel on Las Vegas Boulevard Saturday.

Hundreds mourn for woman found dead in Texas jail cell

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 01:46 PM PDT

Sharon Cooper, sister of Sandra Bland, kneels over the burial plot of her sister Sandra Bland during the funeral in the Chicago suburb of Willow SpringsBy Mike Lansu LISLE, Ill. (Reuters) - Hundreds of people on Saturday attended the funeral of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail cell days after she was arrested following a minor traffic offense, an incident said by activists to be yet another example of police brutality toward minorities. "This is not a moment of defeat, this is an hour of victory ... We are not funeralizing a martyr or a victim, we are celebrating a hero," said Reverend James Miller, who led the funeral service. Bland, 28, was pulled over by a white Texas state trooper on July 10 near Prairie View, Texas, northwest of Houston, for failing to signal a lane change.

Funeral on Monday for a Louisiana theater shooting victim

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:49 PM PDT

Community members hold candles during a candlelight vigil for victims of the Thursday night shooting at a movie theater, in LafayetteMayci Breaux, 21, will be remembered in an 11 a.m. Mass of Christian burial at the Church of the Assumption in Franklin, Louisiana, Ibert's Mortuary said in an online obituary. Franklin is about 50 miles southeast of Lafayette. Breaux and Jillian Johnson, 33, were killed on Thursday night when authorities said John R. Houser, fired at them and others at the Grand 16 Theater in Lafayette during the movie "Trainwreck." Houser, 59, then killed himself.

Exclusive: AFL-CIO may delay endorsement of Clinton as 2016 presidential candidate - sources

Posted: 25 Jul 2015 12:45 PM PDT

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during an event at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business in New YorkIn a possible setback for Hillary Clinton, the AFL-CIO's political committee has recommended the nation's largest labor union federation delay endorsing a candidate for the 2016 presidential race as it seeks to push her to be more supportive of its policies on issues such as trade and wages. The move highlights the pressures Clinton is facing to take a tough stand against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free trade deal backed by President Barack Obama but vigorously opposed by unions who see it as detrimental to jobs and wages in the U.S. Unions also want her to back labor-friendly policies on other issues, such as the minimum wage and the Federal Reserve.

Obama aide: Under new Gitmo plan, some detainees would be sent to U.S.

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Federal judge orders information be seized from Arizona sheriff

Posted: 24 Jul 2015 07:59 PM PDT

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio watches as actor Steven Seagal addresses the media about a simulated school shooting in Fountain HillsA federal judge on Friday ordered U.S. marshals to seize documents from the office of controversial Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio as part of an ongoing racial profiling case.     U.S. District Judge Murray Snow issued the order at an emergency hearing he convened after a court-appointed monitor reported that the sheriff's office had failed to turn over information being sought in connection with the case.     In a brief order, Snow required that 1,459 identifications apparently taken from people by sheriff's deputies during law enforcement actions and which were about to be destroyed be produced for federal marshals.

Louisiana remembers victims in movie theater shooting

Posted: 24 Jul 2015 01:12 PM PDT

Two women stand in silence in front of the Grand Theatre following Thursday's deadly shooting, in Lafayette, La., Friday, July 24, 2015. The family of the man who killed two people and wounded nine others before killing himself at a crowded showing of "Trainwreck" said he was mentally ill and so violent that they hid his guns and sought police help to keep him away, court documents show. (Paul Kieu/The Daily Advertiser via AP) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDITMayci Breaux, a 21-year-old from Franklin, La., and Jillian Johnson, a 33-year-old from Lafayette, La., were shot and killed while watching "Trainwreck" Thursday.

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