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To Counter Russia, U.S. Mulling Tanks, Heavy Guns For Eastern Europe
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Updated at 6:45 p.m. EDT.
The Pentagon is considering a proposal to place M1 Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles and armored howitzers in NATO countries in the Baltic and Eastern Europe in a bid to stem what is viewed as Russian aggression.
In a report first published by The ...
Cleveland Prosecutor's Report: Tamir Rice Borrowed Pellet Gun From Friend
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Prosecutors in Cleveland have released details of their investigation into the fatal police shooting in November of black youth Tamir Rice, who was brandishing what turned out to be a pellet gun.
Police were responding to a 911 report of someone waving a weapon around outside a recreational center. ...
Foo Fighters Frontman Breaks Leg During Concert, But The Show Goes On
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl fell off a stage during a concert in Goteborg, Sweden — but went to the hospital and was back to finish the gig.
In videos of the incident, a seemingly calm Grohl, tells the crowd at Ullevi Stadium: "I think I really broke ...
Clinton Sketches Populist Message In First Major Speech Of Campaign
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET
Hillary Clinton, in the first campaign speech for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, sounded a message of support for working families, calling for a new era of prosperity and pledging to support a constitutional amendment to overhaul campaign finance rules.
At a rally on New ...
6 Yemeni Prisoners Released From Gitmo
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Six Yemenis who were prisoners at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have arrived in Oman after their release from the facility — the first in five months and the first to be approved by Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
The Associated Press reports:
"The six men boarded a ...
Dallas Police Chief: 'A Blessing' No Officers Hurt In Attack On HQ
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET
Automatic gunfire from an armored van shattered the glass frontage at Dallas Police headquarters before the van sped away, leading police on a chase and standoff with the driver, who was killed by a SWAT unit sniper.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the suspect ...
Australian Leader Won't Deny Payoff Of Smugglers To Return Migrants
Friday, June 12, 2015
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declined to rebut a charge that his government was involved in paying people smugglers to turn back boats carrying would-be asylum seekers, saying Canberra is determined "by hook or by crook" to stop illegal migration.
Indonesia claims that a payment of $23,000 was made ...
Appeals Court Denies Immediate Release To Last Of 'Angola 3'
Friday, June 12, 2015
A federal appeals panel has upheld blocking the release of Albert Woodfox — the last of the Angola 3, who has been held for more than four decades in solitary confinement in Angola State Prison in Louisiana.
Earlier this week, a lower court judge had ordered Woodfox, a former Black ...
Jack King, NASA's 'Voice Of Apollo,' Dies At 84
Friday, June 12, 2015
Jack King, who uttered the countdown heard 'round the world followed by the historic words "Liftoff on Apollo 11!" has died at age 84.
King's countdown sequence for the 1969 launch of the Saturn V rocket that ultimately put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon ...
Big Change Yields Small Change As Zimbabweans Turn In Their Trillions
Friday, June 12, 2015
In Zimbabwe, even the trillionaires are struggling to make ends meet.
But that is about to change as the government begins a phasing out of the massively hyperinflated Zimbabwean dollar in favor of a multi-currency regime involving mainly a mix of U.S. dollars and South African rand that, in any ...
Charges Recommended For Cleveland Officers Who Fatally Shot 12-Year-Old
Thursday, June 11, 2015
A judge ruled today that there's enough evidence to charge two Cleveland police officers in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed in November while holding a replica gun outside a recreation center.
As The Associated Press notes, the decision is largely symbolic, because Municipal Court ...
Twitter CEO Stepping Down After Disappointing First Quarter
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will step down and the social media powerhouse's co-founder and Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey will take over as interim head, the company says.
In a statement, Twitter Inc. says: "Costolo will continue to serve on Twitter's Board of Directors, and Dorsey will continue ...
Rupert Murdoch Poised To Step Down As CEO Of 21st Century Fox
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Rupert Murdoch, the 84-year-old Australian-born media baron, says he will step down as head of the global media empire 21st Century Fox, handing the reins to his son James.
A source has confirmed to NPR's David Folkenflik that James Murdoch would become head of the company. The elder Murdoch ...
Trio Of Astronauts Return To Earth After Record-Breaking ISS Mission
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Three astronauts are safely on the ground in Kazakhstan after their Soyuz capsule re-entered at the end of a record-breaking mission aboard the International Space Station. Their return to Earth was delayed by the loss of a Russian resupply ship.
NASA's Terry Virts, Italian Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space ...
Authorities Beef Up Search For Killers Who Escaped From New York Prison
Thursday, June 11, 2015
A massive manhunt for two killers who escaped from a prison in upstate New York has expanded to Vermont, where authorities learned the inmates talked of going before their jailbreak, but officials acknowledged that they have no firm leads.
David Sweat and Richard Matt, convicted murderers, made a complex ...
Video Shows Texas Police Officer Pulling Gun On Teens At Pool Party
Sunday, June 07, 2015
ADVISORY: This video contains profanity and violence.
Police responding to reported disturbance at a community pool in McKinney, Texas, are seen in a video posted to YouTube aggressively subduing black teenagers and, at one point, pulling a gun on them.
The video, posted on Saturday, shows police running after swimsuit-clad ...
Turkey's Ruling Party Will Lose Its Majority, Preliminary Results Show
Sunday, June 07, 2015
Updated at 3:15 p.m. ET
The ruling party of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who had parliamentary elections would deliver a super majority — looks like it will lose its majority altogether.
With roughly 97 percent of the votes counted, the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, appears to ...
Saudi High Court Upholds Blasphemy Sentence On Blogger
Sunday, June 07, 2015
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison on a blogger who was found guilty of "insulting Islam though electronic channels."
Raif Badawi was arrested in 2012 for running the Liberal Saudi Network, which encouraged online debate of religious and political issues.
...Convicted Murderers Manage 'Extraordinary' Prison Break In New York
Sunday, June 07, 2015
Updated at 3:30 p.m. ET
In a prison-break likely to draw comparisons to the film The Shawshank Redemption, two convicted murderers have escaped from a maximum-security facility in upstate New York by cutting through steel walls, shimmying through a steam pipe and emerging from a manhole on the outside.
Inmates ...
Obama At G-7: West Must Stand Up To 'Russian Aggression'
Sunday, June 07, 2015
President Obama, speaking at the G-7 Summit in Germany, urged Western leaders to stand up to "Russian aggression" in Ukraine and said that ties between Washington and Berlin amount to "one of the strongest alliances the world has ever known."
The discussion at the summit at the Bavarian village of ...