| Notorious inmate's lawyer says officials knew he was target Posted: 13 Aug 2015 05:01 PM PDT  Hugo Pinell, a notorious killer with ties to the 1960s and 1970s black revolutionary movement, spent the last 45 years in California's prison isolation units partly for his own protection. Just days after he was moved into the general prison population, fellow inmates stabbed him death in an exercise yard.
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| Judge OKs settlement with families of Newtown massacre victims Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:10 PM PDT  A Connecticut judge on Thursday approved the largest portion yet of a settlement in which the estate of the mother of the gunman who carried out a 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school will pay out $1.5 million to families of 16 victims. Probate Court Judge Joseph Egan in Bethel, Connecticut approved deals with the families of six of the 20 first-graders killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, rampage, according to a court clerk and attorneys who were present at the closed hearing. Two survivors of the attack, which also killed six educators, joined the initial lawsuit but were not part of the final settlement, which represents the amount of a homeowners' insurance policy that gunman 20-year-old Adam Lanza's mother had held on her Newton, Connecticut home.
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| Donald Trump owns thousands of secret Web addresses Posted: |
| State of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, extended at least 24 hours Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:47 PM PDT  The government of St. Louis County extended for at least 24 hours a state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been the scene of protests a year after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer. County Executive Steve Stenger extended the state of emergency in Ferguson, a suburb of the city of St. Louis, through at least Friday, said his spokeswoman, Allison Blood. In consultation with police, Stenger put the state of emergency in place on Monday for Ferguson and surrounding areas after police officers shot and critically wounded a man in an exchange of gunfire Sunday night, marring what had been a day of peaceful demonstrations.
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| Connecticut's top court bans death penalty in state Posted: 13 Aug 2015 01:48 PM PDT  The New England state is the latest to back away from the death penalty, following Nebraska earlier this year and Maryland in 2013. The decision followed a 2012 state law that abolished capital punishment for crimes committed after that date but allowed it to be imposed for crimes previously committed. "We are persuaded that, following its prospective abolition, this state's death penalty no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency and no longer serves any legitimate penological purpose," Connecticut Supreme Court justices wrote in Thursday's ruling.
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| Death toll rises to 50 in massive blasts at Chinese port Posted: 13 Aug 2015 09:34 AM PDT  TIANJIN, China (AP) — The death toll from the fiery explosions at a warehouse of hazardous chemicals climbed Thursday to 50, and the Chinese government sent experts to the shattered and smoldering port to assess any environmental dangers from the spectacular blasts.
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| The myth of Trump’s angry legions Posted:  Trumpmania may be telling us a lot less about the dominant mood in the electorate at large than we think.
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| Despite order, office refuses to issue gay marriage license Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:48 PM PDT  MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A gay couple marched into the county clerk's office Thursday, carrying a federal judge's order that said the clerk can't deny them a marriage license based on her deeply held Christian beliefs.
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| At least 50 dead as huge warehouse blasts hit Chinese port Posted: 13 Aug 2015 08:21 AM PDT Huge, fiery blasts at a warehouse for hazardous chemicals killed at least 50 people and turned nearby buildings into skeletal shells in the Chinese port of Tianjin, raising questions Thursday about whether ... |
| Why is Bernie Sanders drawing huge crowds? Posted:  The enthusiastic audiences at his campaign stops are dwarfing the turnouts for Hillary Clinton.
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| One-on-one with U.S. ambassador to Chile Posted:  U.S. Ambassador to Chile Mike Hammer is a widely respected career diplomat who has worked for presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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