Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Congress moving ahead on encryption vs. terrorism debate
• Trump walks back call to punish women who undergo illegal abortions
• Conservative female journalists’ open letter to Trump: Tell Lewandowski ‘You’re fired!’
• Top aide to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigns amid scandal
• Coalition has 'momentum' against IS group: Pentagon official
• France charges main suspect in foiled attack plot
• No charges for 2 Minneapolis officers in fatal shooting
• UK man wanted hijack snap to get 'closer look' at 'suicide belt'
• Trump mocks reporter allegedly assaulted by his campaign manager
• Unions prevail as US Supreme Court deadlocks in fees case
• Atlanta asks NBA to mull moving All-Star game from Charlotte

Congress moving ahead on encryption vs. terrorism debate Posted: 30 Mar 2016 10:45 AM PDT Major tech companies must now look to Congress to address many of the disagreements that played out in the legal filings between law enforcement and Apple.

Trump walks back call to punish women who undergo illegal abortions Posted: 30 Mar 2016 02:43 PM PDT APPLETON, Wis.—Donald Trump sparked a firestorm Wednesday when he said there should be some form of "punishment" for women who have abortions if the procedure is outlawed in the United States—a position he walked back just hours later after he came under widespread criticism, even from the anti-abortion movement. In an interview with MSNBC's Chris Matthews set to air Wednesday night, the Republican presidential frontrunner repeatedly asserted he is "pro-life" and that abortion should be outlawed. "Should abortion be punished?" Matthews asked.

Conservative female journalists’ open letter to Trump: Tell Lewandowski ‘You’re fired!’ Posted: 30 Mar 2016 01:37 PM PDT A day after Donald Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was charged with assaulting a female reporter, more than a dozen female journalists signed an open letter calling for the Republican frontrunner to fire him.

Top aide to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigns amid scandal Posted: 30 Mar 2016 04:43 PM PDT MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A top political aide to Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Wednesday, a week after he publicly admitted making inappropriate remarks to her but denied the two ever had an affair.

Coalition has 'momentum' against IS group: Pentagon official Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:06 PM PDT A top Pentagon official on Wednesday said Islamic State jihadists in Iraq and Syria are losing the lengthy fight against the US-led coalition, even as the jihadists continue to mount attacks overseas like the one in Brussels last week. Coalition forces have been hitting IS targets since August 2014 after the extremists seized huge parts of Iraq and Syria, and critics have accused the campaign of moving too slowly. "Right now, without question, the momentum against ISIS is more than at any other time in our campaign," Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said, using an acronym for the IS group.

France charges main suspect in foiled attack plot Posted: 30 Mar 2016 12:42 PM PDT Paris (AFP) - France on Wednesday charged the main suspect in a foiled attack plot, who was found with an arsenal of weapons and explosives at his home, with membership of a terrorist organisation.

No charges for 2 Minneapolis officers in fatal shooting Posted: 30 Mar 2016 03:08 PM PDT Two white police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black man last fall will not face criminal charges, a prosecutor announced Wednesday in a decision that drew outrage from community members ...

UK man wanted hijack snap to get 'closer look' at 'suicide belt' Posted: 29 Mar 2016 05:55 PM PDT A British man who caused online debate Wednesday after having his picture taken with the hijacker of an Egyptian plane said that he did it to take a "closer look" at his supposed suicide belt. Ben Innes, 26, posed for a photo grinning next to the hijacker during the five-hour stand-off on Tuesday aboard the EgyptAir A320 jet and sent the picture to his friends.

Trump mocks reporter allegedly assaulted by his campaign manager Posted: 29 Mar 2016 07:52 PM PDT He insists Corey Lewandowski did nothing wrong when he yanked a reporter away from him at a campaign event.

Unions prevail as US Supreme Court deadlocks in fees case Posted: 29 Mar 2016 09:38 AM PDT The US Supreme Court deadlocked Tuesday in a 4-4 decision that effectively affirms the right of public employee unions to collect mandatory fees from non-members in states that allow the practice. The court had been expected to rule against the unions before the death in February of conservative justice Antonin Scalia, underscoring the impact of a vacancy that the Republican-controlled Senate has refused to fill while Barack Obama is president. In split decisions, the lower court rulings stand -- in this case, favoring unions against a challenge to state laws that allow them to collect mandatory fees from non-members.

Atlanta asks NBA to mull moving All-Star game from Charlotte Posted: 29 Mar 2016 06:30 PM PDT Atlanta city leaders make their pitch after North Carolina lawmakers passed legislation criticized as limiting protections for LGBT people.

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