| Planned Parenthood suspect: 'I am a warrior for the babies' Posted: 09 Dec 2015 03:52 PM PST  The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado stunned a courtroom Wednesday by declaring he is a "warrior for the babies" and won't go to trial.
|
| California shooter plotted 2012 attack, senator says Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:05 PM PST  California shooter Syed Farook plotted an attack with an accomplice three years ago but got "cold feet" after a wave of US counterterrorism arrests, a senator said Wednesday. A longtime friend and neighbor of Farook's, Enrique Marquez, told investigators of their aborted plot, said Senator James Risch, who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "He has admitted that in 2012 they had something in mind and they didn't do it because there had been some immediate arrests by the counterterrorism people," Risch told CNN.
|
| Chicago mayor apologizes, protesters urge he resign Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:55 PM PST  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, under heavy criticism for his handling of a police shooting that resulted in the death of a black teen, gave an emotional apology on Wednesday hours before angry crowds closed city streets while demanding his resignation. Emanuel's speech was met with applause from the City Council, but protesters said the city's actions do not go far enough. Emanuel's speech comes after two weeks of protests in Chicago following the release of a 2014 police squad car dashboard video showing police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times.
|
| Power to the states: Education law rewrite passes Congress Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:25 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Those federally mandated math and reading tests will continue, but a sweeping rewrite of the nation's education law will now give states — not the U.S. government — authority to decide how to use the results in evaluating teachers and schools.
|
| Muslim groups raise $134K for San Bernardino shooting victims, families Posted: 09 Dec 2015 10:09 AM PST  Muslim-Americans have launched a successful campaign to help the families of victims and survivors of the San Bernardino shooting.
|
| Suspect in deadly Planned Parenthood attack declares self guilty Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:00 PM PST  The man accused of shooting three people to death and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last month declared himself guilty and a "warrior for the babies" during an outburst in court on Wednesday. The disturbance, as prosecutors formally presented murder and other charges against Robert Lewis Dear, 57, bolstered assertions by Planned Parenthood executives that the attack on the Colorado Springs clinic was motivated by anti-abortion sentiments.
|
| Chicago mayor apologizes, protesters demand his resignation Posted: 09 Dec 2015 05:03 PM PST  By Mary Wisniewski and Justin Madden CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, under heavy criticism for his handling of the fatal police shooting of a black teen, gave an emotional apology on Wednesday but angry crowds closed city streets to demand his resignation hours later. In a special address to the City Council, the mayor said "I'm sorry" and promised "complete and total reform of the system." Emanuel's speech was met with applause from the City Council, but protesters said the city's actions do not go far enough. Hundreds of mostly young demonstrators filled downtown on Wednesday, temporarily shutting down some streets and chanting "no more killer cops" and "Rahm must go." "This system is designed for us to be dead or in jail and we're tired," said protester Jamal Wayne, 20.
|
| U.S. top court divided over affirmative action in college admissions Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:20 PM PST  Conservative justices expressed deep doubt on Wednesday about a university student admissions policy that gives preferences to racial minorities during a testy U.S. Supreme Court session in a case that could decide the fate of programs aimed at fostering racially diverse campuses. This suggested Kennedy might be unwilling to throw out the school's affirmative action policy entirely. It was the second time the justices considered whether the affirmative action policy at the University of Texas at Austin violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of equal treatment under the law, and the oral argument lasted about 90 minutes, 30 longer than usual.
|
| FBI: California shooters radicalized at least 2 years ago Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:05 AM PST  The two San Bernardino shooters were radicalized at least two years ago and had discussed jihad and martyrdom as early as 2013, one year before they married, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday. Comey ...
|
| Chicago mayor apologizes for teen's death, vows reforms Posted: 09 Dec 2015 01:47 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel, known for keeping vise-like control over Chicago and his own political image, finds himself in the weakest position of his long public career as he struggles to respond to a police scandal, claims of cover-ups at City Hall and calls for his resignation.
|
| Yahoo board flip flops, won't spin off Alibaba stake Posted: |
| Angela Merkel named Time's Person of the Year Posted: 09 Dec 2015 11:26 AM PST  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time's Person of the Year, praised Wednesday by the magazine for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis. Time also cited ...
|
