| Carson suggests campaign shake-up is coming Posted: 23 Dec 2015 02:38 PM PST  Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Wednesday morning he is moving toward a major shake-up of his struggling campaign, with less than six weeks to go until early voting begins to select party ...
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| Winter tornadoes touch down in Mississippi, Indiana Posted: 23 Dec 2015 04:39 PM PST  Forecasters warned of a "particularly dangerous situation" as a storm system swept across the country on Wednesday, and officials said they feared Christmas yard decorations would become projectiles.
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| Airlines prep for holiday crush: More flights, bigger planes Posted: 23 Dec 2015 03:11 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — Airlines are shifting the timing of thousands of flights, even adding dozens of redeyes, as they try to avoid delays while hauling millions of passengers from now through the Christmas weekend.
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| Black Lives Matter holds 'Black Xmas' protests in Minnesota, California Posted: 23 Dec 2015 04:48 PM PST  By David Bailey BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (Reuters) - Black Lives Matter held demonstrations in Minnesota and California on Wednesday to protest police killings of unarmed blacks, dubbing the day "Black Xmas" to show it could affect the economy on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. "Black communities across the United States are taking brave actions to impede the flow of goods and commerce with peaceful protests to call for an immediate overhaul of the justice system," Black Lives Matter said in a statement on Facebook. "Instead of buying gifts to fuel this system, Black Xmas is a day of action." The loosely organized movement grew out of protests over police killings of black men in Ferguson, Missouri, New York and other cities.
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| Driver who plowed into Las Vegas crowd makes first court appearance Posted: 23 Dec 2015 10:22 AM PST  By Alexia Shurmur LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - An Oregon woman accused of plowing her car into a crowd on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk, killing one person and injuring dozens of others, showed little emotion as she made her first court appearance on Wednesday to face charges including murder. Lakeisha Holloway, 24, was clad in a blue jail jumpsuit with her hands cuffed to a chain around her waist, and appeared alert but subdued during an appearance in Clark County criminal court lasting less than five minutes. Holloway, who police said had her 3-year-old daughter with her in the car at the time, has been charged with one count of murder through use of a deadly weapon in the death of a 32-year-old Arizona woman who was among those struck by the sedan on Sunday.
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| Competency evaluation ordered for accused Planned Parenthood gunman Posted: 23 Dec 2015 03:28 PM PST  The man accused of killing three people and wounding nine others in a Nov. 27 shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado was ordered on Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he insisted on acting as his own lawyer. Judge Gilbert Martinez ordered the evaluation to determine whether Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is fit to represent himself against murder and other charges. During the court hearing, Dear said he distrusted his lawyers and insisted on acting as his own attorney.
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| Planned Parenthood shooter wants to act as own lawyer Posted: 23 Dec 2015 04:50 PM PST  A man who acknowledges killing three people in an attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic defiantly told a judge Wednesday that he would not submit to a mental competency evaluation and wanted to fire his public defender and represent himself.
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| Truck driver indicted in crash that hurt comic Tracy Morgan Posted: 23 Dec 2015 11:54 AM PST  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey grand jury has indicted the truck driver who crashed into a limo van carrying Tracy Morgan, killing one man and severely injuring the comedian.
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| Rand Paul Ribs GOP Rivals in Annual 'Airing of Grievances' on Twitter Posted: 23 Dec 2015 01:32 PM PST  GOP presidential candidate Rand Paul (R-KY) continued his annual "airing of grievances" tradition today, in which he tweets lighthearted complaints about everything from wasteful government spending to alternate-side parking to people who mock his turtlenecks.But this year Paul had a new target: his rivals for the GOP nomination.The Festivus tradition grew out of an episode of Seinfeld. The Kentucky senator has made the gag his own in the last couple years, exploiting Twitter's town hall-like atmosphere and staccato pacing to rib fellow political figures. ...
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| US blocks UK Muslim family from boarding plane to Disneyland Posted: 23 Dec 2015 01:05 PM PST  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron will look into claims that U.S. officials prevented a British Muslim family of 11 from flying to Disneyland for a planned holiday.
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| San Bernardino killer denied militancy in U.S. entry papers Posted: 22 Dec 2015 03:56 PM PST By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik denied having any militant sympathies or intentions when she was asked in an application form for a U.S. visa two years ago, documents described to Reuters on Tuesday showed. The papers also showed that statements by Malik and her husband and fellow shooter Syed Rizwan Farook did not raise any alarms among authorities that they were potential Islamic State militants. U.S.-born Farook said they first met in person and became engaged during the October 2013 Haj pilgrimage to Mecca with their respective families, according to other documents released by a congressman on Tuesday. |
