| Kentucky clerk case divides religious liberty advocates Posted: 13 Sep 2015 11:13 AM PDT  Kentucky clerk Kim Davis has become a hero to many conservative Christians who see her refusal to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage as a litmus test for religious liberty in an increasingly secular culture.
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| Texas officials under scrutiny for biker shootout case Posted: 13 Sep 2015 11:00 AM PDT  The secrecy that enshrouds the investigation into a biker shootout in May that left nine people dead and led to the mass-arrest of 177 people is hardly surprising in this city, where public scrutiny is rare and unwelcome.
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| Ben Carson Says He Fears for Future of US Without Change in Direction Posted: 13 Sep 2015 11:05 AM PDT  Surging Republican presidential Ben Carson, who has been feuding with rival Donald Trump this week, expressed his concern for the future of the United States today, saying he fears the country "may not survive the future" without a change of direction.The retired neurosurgeon said his comments were not directly aimed at supporters of Trump, but rather voters all across the country. Carson is second to Trump in several polls in national and early-voting states."I'm going after everybody in America because, you know, we live in very perilous times," he said on ABC's "This Week. ...
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| India police hunt for explosives' owner after deadly blast Posted: 13 Sep 2015 09:27 AM PDT  Police were hunting Sunday for the owner of an illegal cache of explosives blamed for a massive blast in a crowded restaurant in central India that left more than 80 people dead. The explosion, one of the worst such accidents in recent years, on Saturday morning tore through the restaurant building complex in central Madhya Pradesh state, packed with office workers and school children having breakfast. Some 100 people were also injured, the official said, as rescue workers wrapped up their search for more victims buried in the steel and concrete wreckage.
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| Insider vs. Outsider Matchup Finds Clinton, Trump Near Even Posted: 13 Sep 2015 10:49 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump run essentially evenly among registered voters in a head-to-head matchup for president in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, testament to the strength of party loyalty as well as to Trump's anti-establishment profile and anti-immigration views. The biggest by far is whether or not registered voters support Trump's positions on immigration.
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| GOP leaders' complex fight to avoid federal shutdown Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:54 AM PDT  No government shutdown this year, Republican congressional leaders say. But with Congress, it's never easy.
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| The migrant crisis explained Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:32 PM PDT  The current migrant crisis is being called the worst since World War II, with hundreds of thousands of people flooding to Europe. Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric explains.
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| Trump criticizes Ben Carson, says he doesn't have 'energy' Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:39 AM PDT  BOONE, Iowa (AP) — With Rick Perry out of the Republican race for president, Donald Trump on Saturday focused his barbs on another opponent in the crowded field of primary candidates, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
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| Northern California wildfire destroys hundreds of structures Posted: 13 Sep 2015 04:36 PM PDT  By Noah Berger MIDDLETOWN, Calif. (Reuters) - A rapidly spreading wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes and other buildings as it roared through the northern California village of Middletown and several nearby communities, chasing thousands of residents from their homes, fire officials said on Sunday. The so-called Valley Fire, now ranking as the most destructive among scores of blazes that have raged across the drought-stricken Western United States this summer, came amid what California fire officials described as "unheard of fire behavior" this season. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in areas ravaged by the blaze, and officials expanded mandatory evacuations as shifting winds sent flames and ash toward a number of towns in the hills north of Napa Valley wine country.
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| No active shooter on MIT campus in Massachusetts: officials Posted: 13 Sep 2015 02:36 PM PDT Students were initially warned about an active shooter on the MIT campus and told to take shelter in a tweet from the school's alert system, which texts students about emergencies on campus. About 15 minutes later, at 4 p.m. local time (ET), the system posted a message on its website that police were investigating a shooting but that the assailant was not believed to be on campus. Police in Cambridge, Massachusetts and at MIT declined to comment. |
| Ad invokes Reagan to attack Republicans' hard line on immigration Posted: 13 Sep 2015 02:26 PM PDT  Days before a Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Library, an immigration advocacy group invoked the former president to attack the tough immigration rhetoric of certain candidates, including front-runner Donald Trump. A television ad launched on Sunday by the National Immigration Forum Action Fund contrasts Reagan's call for the United States to welcome all people with the stances of Trump, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who have proposed an end to birthright citizenship and urged other crackdowns.
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| Report: Hillary Clinton's private emails may be recoverable Posted: 12 Sep 2015 04:17 PM PDT  The company that managed Hillary Clinton's private email server said it has "no knowledge of the server being wiped," indicating that tens of thousands of emails Clinton said were deleted could be recovered, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and her aides have said she deleted her personal emails from her time as secretary of state, but unless the server has been "wiped" experts say those 31,000 emails could be recovered, the Post reported. A representative of the Clinton campaign could not immediately be reached for comment on the report.
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| Thousands flee 2 fast-moving California wildfires Posted: 12 Sep 2015 09:10 PM PDT  ANGELS CAMP, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of people rushed to escape a massive wildfire charging across the tinder-dry Sierra Nevada foothills and another out-of-control fire that broke out in Northern California on Saturday, sending four firefighters to the hospital with second-degree burns.
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| Indian police look for man blamed for blast that killed 90 Posted: 13 Sep 2015 05:50 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in central India were looking Sunday for a man who was being blamed for a massive explosion at a restaurant that killed 90 people, as angry residents protested the way the authorities were handling the case.
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