| Trump dashes Cruz's hopes in Indiana; Sanders-Clinton close Posted: 03 May 2016 04:46 PM PDT  Donald Trump takes a major step toward sewing up the GOP presidential nomination.
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| U.S. death in Iraq highlights ‘enduring’ ISIS war debate Posted: 03 May 2016 01:58 PM PDT  President Obama's undeclared but escalating war against the Islamic State terror group suffered its third American combat casualty on Tuesday, a U.S. Navy SEAL, as the White House wrestled with renewed questions about the likely scope and duration of the conflict.
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| Kerry warns Assad of 'repercussions' over truce violations Posted: 03 May 2016 04:41 PM PDT  US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday of "repercussions" if his regime flouts a new ceasefire being negotiated with Moscow for the battered city of Aleppo. A February 27 truce between the Syrian regime and non-jihadist rebels raised hopes for efforts to resolve the five-year conflict. "If Assad does not adhere to this, there will clearly be repercussions and one of them may be the total destruction of the ceasefire and they go back to war," Kerry told reporters.
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| Georgia governor vetoes 'campus-carry' concealed gun bill Posted: 03 May 2016 03:55 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Republican governor vetoed a bill Tuesday allowing concealed handguns on college campuses, rejecting the proposal that a legislature controlled by his own party had easily approved in an election year.
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| Cruz to Trump: My father is not linked to JFK assassination Posted: 03 May 2016 09:50 AM PDT  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz responded Tuesday to allegations that his father, Rafael Cruz, was somehow linked to Lee Harvey Oswald. "There's a whole thing, and, you know, his father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald's being – uh, you know shot. During a news conference later Thursday, Cruz dismissed Trump's allegations concerning Kennedy's death in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
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| A confident Trump looks past Indiana Posted: 03 May 2016 04:58 AM PDT  CARMEL, Ind.—Indiana was supposed to be the state that could potentially derail Donald Trump's insurgent bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Speaking to a capacity crowd of nearly 1,800 people, Trump, with his characteristic bravado, touted his six straight primary wins — and predicted he would easily claim yet another, pointing to polls that show him with a wide lead in Indiana heading into Tuesday's vote. "Boom, boom, boom — we're knocking them out like corn flakes," Trump declared.
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| Hillary Clinton says she misspoke when she vowed to put ‘coal companies out of business’ Posted: 03 May 2016 07:08 AM PDT  Campaigning in coal country, Hillary Clinton said that she's sorry for vowing earlier this year to put coal miners out of business. Copley, a registered Republican, then pointed to dozens of demonstrators — some of them Donald Trump supporters — who had come to protest Clinton's appearance in coal country.
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| IS kills US Navy SEAL in Iraq attack Posted: 03 May 2016 11:32 AM PDT  The Islamic State group broke through Kurdish defences in northern Iraq on Tuesday and killed a US Navy SEAL deployed as part of the US-led coalition against the jihadists. The attack came as the United Nations said that fighting with IS in northern Iraq could displace another 30,000 people, adding to millions who have already fled their homes. The sailor from the special operations force was at least the third coalition member killed by enemy fire in Iraq since IS overran swathes of the country in 2014.
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| U.S. researchers may have found Captain Cook's ship Endeavour Posted: 03 May 2016 09:16 AM PDT By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. researchers are set to announce on Wednesday that they have found what they believe are the remains of famed 18th century British sailor Captain James Cook's ship the Endeavour in Rhode Island's Newport Harbor. The historic ship is thought to be among 13 vessels scuttled in Newport Harbor during the American Revolutionary War against Britain, according to researchers at the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project. The researchers said they are at least 80 percent certain that Cook's ship is among the underwater wreckage situated in the harbor. |
| Hit Musical 'Hamilton' Leads Broadway's Tony Nominations With Record 16 Nods Posted: 03 May 2016 10:48 AM PDT  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Broadway hit "Hamilton" scored a record 16 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, solidifying its front-runner status for the top prize of best musical.
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| Student Debt Is About to Set Another Record, But the Picture Isn’t All Bad Posted: 03 May 2016 05:45 AM PDT  This spring's college seniors will see a good return: higher starting salaries.
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| US combat death in Iraq reflects intensifying war Posted: 03 May 2016 12:02 PM PDT  STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — The combat death Tuesday of a U.S Navy SEAL who was advising Kurdish forces in Iraq coincides with a gradually deepening American role in fighting a resilient Islamic State, even as the Iraqis struggle to muster the military and political strength to defeat the militants.
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| Clinton faces tough crowd in West Virginia coal country Posted: 02 May 2016 05:06 PM PDT  Voters expressed anger toward her during a campaign swing through a state that overwhelmingly backed her eight years ago.
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| Baby girl rescued four days after Kenya building collapse Posted: 03 May 2016 12:29 PM PDT  Two brothers who own the building were remanded in police custody on Tuesday but not charged as rescue efforts continue with close to 100 still missing. The baby girl's father described the recovery of his daughter, Delarine Saisi, as a "miracle". "I thank God for all that he has done to get my daughter alive after all those days in the rubble," said Ralsan Wasike, adding that he did not know the whereabouts of the girl's mother.
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| Astronomers discover new Earth-like planets Posted: 02 May 2016 09:54 AM PDT  Three planets with sizes and temperatures akin to those of the Earth and Venus are circling a dwarf star 40 light-years away. The star in question, named TRAPPIST-1 after the telescope used to observe it, is weaker and cooler than the Sun at the heart of our solar system. "With such short orbital periods, the planets are between 20 and 100 times closer to their star than the Earth to the Sun. The structure of this planetary system is much more similar in scale to the system of Jupiter's moons than to that of the solar system," said lead astronomer Michaël Gillon of the University of Liège in Belgium.
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| Obama takes Supreme Court fight to Republican senators' home turf Posted: 02 May 2016 05:03 PM PDT  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday took the political battle over his pick for a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court to the home states of seven Republican senators up for re-election in November. Obama conducted interviews with local television anchors where he argued that Republican senators should hold confirmation hearings and vote on his nomination of appellate Judge Merrick Garland to the top court. "What my argument is: Let the American people see Judge Garland, let him answer questions, let them hear his responses," the Democratic president told WDAF-TV FOX 4 in Kansas City, Missouri, a market that straddles states where Senators Roy Blunt of Missouri and Jerry Moran of Kansas are up for re-election.
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| Woman says she is Prince's half-sister, claims part of estate Posted: 02 May 2016 07:50 PM PDT  A woman claiming to be Prince's half-sister has come forward saying she is entitled to part of the late pop star's multimillion-dollar estate, legal documents show. Darcell Gresham Johnston filed court documents Friday in the musician's probate case in Minnesota saying she is an "interested party and beneficiary" in the singer's estate. The estate was previously expected to be equally split six ways between Prince's known surviving siblings under Minnesota law.
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| Emotional return as first U.S. cruise in decades reaches Cuba Posted: 02 May 2016 04:21 PM PDT  By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Hundreds of tourists and a handful of emotional Cuban-Americans arrived on the first U.S. cruise ship to sail to Havana in decades on Monday, spilling onto the cobbled streets of the old city where they were warmly greeted by residents. It was another first for the two countries since U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama's visit to the Caribbean island. Carnival Corp's Adonia, a small ship carrying 700 passengers, slipped through the channel into Havana Bay in the morning under picture-perfect skies, then docked alongside the colonial quarter recently visited by Obama. "I'm nervous and excited at the same time, I left Cuba 48 years ago, when I was six years old.
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