| Ferguson federal probe reveals racist emails Posted: 04 Mar 2015 03:05 PM PST  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says report shows deep distrust and hostility in the community.
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| U.S. ambassador attacked in Seoul Posted: 04 Mar 2015 05:05 PM PST  The US ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, was slashed on his face and arm by a blade-wielding assailant shouting anti-war slogans in an attack in Seoul Thursday, police and television reports said. The United States strongly condemned the "act of violence" which left the ambassador bleeding profusely as he was taken to hospital, and said that President Barack Obama had spoken with him. "The President called (Lippert) to tell him that he and his wife Robyn are in his thoughts and prayers, and to wish him the very best for a speedy recovery," said Bernadette Meehan, National Security Council spokeswoman.
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| Benghazi committee subpoenas Hillary Clinton's emails Posted: 04 Mar 2015 11:28 AM PST  The House Select Committee on Benghazi is planning to subpoena Clintonmail.com.
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| In Israel, analysts see election boost for Netanyahu from speech Posted: 04 Mar 2015 09:29 AM PST  Many analysts in Israel say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress, which challenged President Obama's strategy on Iran, may help him garner votes in upcoming elections.
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| 'It was him': Day 1 of the Boston Marathon bombing trial Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:04 PM PST  Follow Yahoo News' live coverage from inside the courtroom.
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| US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force Posted: 04 Mar 2015 04:44 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department cleared a white former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old on Wednesday, but also issued a scathing report calling for sweeping changes in city law enforcement practices it called discriminatory and unconstitutional.
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| Justices sharply divided over health care law subsidies Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:05 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharply divided along familiar lines, the Supreme Court took up a politically charged new challenge to President Barack Obama's health overhaul Wednesday in a dispute over the tax subsidies that make insurance affordable for millions of Americans. |
| McDonald's chicken gets new standard: No human antibiotics Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:29 PM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's says it plans to require chicken suppliers to stop using antibiotics important to human medicine within two years.
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| U.S. Supreme Court split over Obamacare challenge Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:22 PM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on ideological lines on Wednesday as it tackled a second major challenge to President Barack Obama's healthcare law, with Justice Anthony Kennedy emerging as a likely swing vote in a ruling. The nine justices heard 85 minutes of arguments in the case brought by conservative opponents of the law who contend its tax credits aimed at helping people afford medical insurance should not be available in most states. A ruling favoring the challengers could cripple the law dubbed Obamacare, the president's signature domestic policy achievement. Kennedy, a conservative who often casts the deciding vote in close cases, raised concerns to lawyers on both sides about the possible negative impact on states if the government loses the case, suggesting he could back the Obama administration.
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| Ferguson police review of Brown shooting remains a secret Posted: 04 Mar 2015 12:58 AM PST  Seven months after one of its white officers fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old, the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department's own findings of what transpired remain under wraps. Excessive force and possible civil rights violations by the suburban St. Louis department have been the focus of a Justice Department investigation since Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown Jr. multiple times last August.
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| 'It was him' Boston bomber's lawyers admit guilt, focus on brother Posted: 04 Mar 2015 11:48 AM PST By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for the accused Boston Marathon bomber said at the start of his trial that their client bore responsibility for the attacks that killed three people and injured 264 with a blunt admission: "It was him." But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a secondary player in the April 15, 2013 bombings at the famous race and the fatal shooting days later of a police officer, defense attorney Judith Clarke said in her opening argument in U.S. District Court in Boston. She indicated that the 21-year-old's older brother, Tamerlan, was the prime mover. A prosecutor, William Weinreb, told jurors how Tsarnaev and his brother, both ethnic Chechens, carefully selected the places where they left the bombs in an effort to punish the United States for military actions in Muslim-dominated countries. |
| Ferguson policies targeted blacks, created toxic environment: U.S. attorney general Posted: 04 Mar 2015 04:51 PM PST  By Lisa Lambert and Carey Gillam WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - A U.S. probe found systemic racial bias targeted blacks and created a "toxic environment" in Ferguson, Missouri, but cleared a white officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager there, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday. The report said the St. Louis suburb overwhelmingly arrested and issued traffic citations to blacks to boost city coffers through fines, used police as a collection agency and created a culture of distrust that exploded in August when Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown. Brown's killing touched off a national debate on race, led to months of street protests and amplified long-standing complaints in Ferguson and across the country of police harassment and mistreatment of minorities. "But seen in this context, amid a highly toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment, stoked by years of bad feelings, and spurred by illegal and misguided practices, it is not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like a powder keg." Holder, who is stepping down soon as attorney general, called for wholesale and immediate change in the way Ferguson operates.
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| Opening statements set for Boston bombing trial Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:12 AM PST  The case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins today after nearly two months of jury selection.
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| Man killed by LAPD was wanted by U.S. marshals Posted: 03 Mar 2015 09:36 PM PST  A homeless man shot by police was a convicted bank robber living under an assumed name.
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| Alabama Supreme Court halts gay-marriage licenses Posted: 03 Mar 2015 08:47 PM PST  The court orders the state's judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
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| Ferguson policies targeted blacks, created toxic environment: U.S. attorney general Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:51 PM PST By Lisa Lambert and Carey Gillam WASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - A U.S. probe found systemic racial bias targeted blacks and created a "toxic environment" in Ferguson, Missouri, but cleared a white officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager there, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday. The report said the St. Louis suburb overwhelmingly arrested and issued traffic citations to blacks to boost city coffers through fines, used police as a collection agency and created a culture of distrust that exploded in August when Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown. Brown's killing touched off a national debate on race, led to months of street protests and amplified long-standing complaints in Ferguson and across the country of police harassment and mistreatment of minorities. "But seen in this context, amid a highly toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment, stoked by years of bad feelings, and spurred by illegal and misguided practices, it is not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like a powder keg." Holder, who is stepping down soon as attorney general, called for wholesale and immediate change in the way Ferguson operates. |
| 72 passengers reach settlements in Asiana crash Posted: 03 Mar 2015 07:25 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 70 passengers aboard an Asiana Airlines flight that crashed in San Francisco two years ago have reached a settlement in their lawsuits against the airline, attorneys for the passengers and airline said in a court filing Tuesday.
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