| 'Sometimes' I carry a gun, says Donald Trump Posted: 11 Oct 2015 12:42 PM PDT  Donald Trump says he sometimes carries a gun to protect himself.
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| Charles Koch: ‘What we’re after is to fight against special interests’ Posted: 11 Oct 2015 11:54 AM PDT  Charles Koch — one-half of the notorious multibillionaire Koch brothers — says he gets daily death threats and is now on al-Qaida's hit list.
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| Ex-Benghazi investigator: 'This has become a partisan investigation' Posted: 11 Oct 2015 09:18 AM PDT  A former investigator with the select congressional committee on Benghazi says the probe into the September 11, 2012, terror attacks that killed four Americans — including Ambassador Chris Stevens — morphed into a politically motivated mission targeting Hillary Clinton after the revelation that she used a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
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| Reports: Officer's shooting of boy with pellet gun justified Posted: 10 Oct 2015 08:28 PM PDT  A white Cleveland police officer was justified in fatally shooting a black 12-year-old boy holding a pellet gun moments after pulling up beside him, according to two outside reviews conducted at the request of the prosecutor investigating the death.
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| Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them Posted: 11 Oct 2015 12:51 PM PDT  By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group's reclusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and hospital sources said. Iraq said on Sunday its air force had hit the meeting and had also struck a convoy that was carrying Baghdadi to attend it. It said Baghdadi had been driven away from the convoy in an unknown condition.The Iraqi military's announcement was the latest unconfirmed report of the possible death or injury of Baghdadi, who has survived a year of U.S.-led air strikes and multi-sided wars in two countries since proclaiming himself caliph of all Muslims after his forces swept through most of northern Iraq last year.
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| Ex-Benghazi investigator says U.S. panel targeted Clinton: media Posted: 10 Oct 2015 04:45 PM PDT  A former investigator for the House of Representatives Select Committee on Benghazi is accusing the Republican-led panel of targeting Democrat Hillary Clinton to scupper her presidential bid, the New York Times and CNN reported on Saturday. "These are explosive allegations," Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.
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| California to ban 'Redskins' for school sports, keep Confederate building names Posted: 11 Oct 2015 03:41 PM PDT  By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California will ban public schools from naming their sports teams "Redskins," a name seen as a slur against Native Americans, but will not stop municipalities from naming parks and buildings for Confederate heroes, Governor Jerry Brown said on Sunday. Brown's decision to sign a bill ending the use of "Redskins" yet veto legislation banning Confederate names comes amid controversy around the country over the racial implications of team names, display of the Confederate flag and the naming of public places. Advocates for Native Americans welcomed the decision to ban the term "Redskins." "The most populous state in the country has now taken a stand against the use of this insidious slur in its schools," activists from the group Change the Mascot said in a statement on Sunday.
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| Hundreds of Southwest flights delayed by online booking problems Posted: 11 Oct 2015 02:26 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co said hundreds of its flights were delayed because of problems on its website, phone lines and airports on Sunday. In a statement on its website, Southwest said intermittent technical issues "are impacting website performance in creating new bookings and requiring us to process some customers manually as they arrive for travel." The airline, which flies in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean, said it was asking customers to arrive at least two hours before their scheduled departures and use airport kiosks to print boarding passes and tags for baggage. Southwest said that as of 3:30 ET, 450 of the approximately 3,600 flights scheduled were delayed.
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| Ohio prosecutor criticized over reports on child's shooting by police Posted: 11 Oct 2015 12:42 PM PDT  An Ohio prosecutor handling the fatal shooting by police of a 12-year-old boy while he played with a replica pistol was criticized by activists on Sunday for releasing two reports that called the shooting "reasonable" before any grand jury decision on charges had been announced. "It looks as though the prosecutor is trying to taint the grand jury process as well as manipulate the judicial process overall," said Edward Little, one of the so-called Cleveland 8, a group of clergy, academics and activists who have called for the two police officers involved in the November 2014 playground shooting of Tamir Rice to be indicted. The conclusions of a retired FBI agent and an out-of-state prosecutor were submitted to the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office ahead of an expected decision by a grand jury on whether criminal charges were warranted in the shooting, which was captured on surveillance video.
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| Attorney: Army officer recommends no jail time for Bergdahl Posted: 10 Oct 2015 03:45 PM PDT  An Army officer is recommending that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl face a lower-level court martial and be spared the possibility of jail time for leaving his post in Afghanistan, his lawyer said Saturday.
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