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Pinterest removes (then reactivates) #GunFAIL boards

Posted: 19 May 2015 02:55 PM PDT

#GunFAIL boardsDavid Waldman uses his #GunFAIL boards to keep track of all the children who are accidentally shot and killed in the United States.


Top Democrat sounds 'alarm bells' over Obama rhetoric on Islamic State

Posted: 19 May 2015 12:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 12, 2015 file photo, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the Islamic State militant leader killed Friday was the captor of American hostage Kayla Mueller for a time. Schiff confirmed the connection at a breakfast with reporters Tuesday, but declined further comment. ABC News first reported that U.S. officials believe Mueller, whose death was announced in February, spent time in the custody of the Tunisian Islamic State finance man known as Abu Sayyaf. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)A senior House of Representatives Democrat said Tuesday that the White House's description of supposed progress in the war against the Islamic State should ring "alarm bells," and called the fall of the city of Ramadi to the extremists "a very serious and significant setback."


Takata air bag recall becomes biggest ever in US

Posted: 19 May 2015 11:31 AM PDT

A logo of Takata Corp is seen with its display at a showroom for vehicles in TokyoAir bag maker Takata Corp. has agreed to declare 33.8 million of its inflator mechanisms defective, effectively doubling the number of cars and trucks that have been recalled in the U.S. so far. The announcement ...


Bulk domestic surveillance: Where the 2016 candidates stand

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The candidates are split on one of the USA Patriot Act's most controversial provisions.


Los Angeles gives preliminary approval to $15 minimum wage

Posted: 19 May 2015 01:53 PM PDT

Demonstrators take part in a protest to demand higher wages for fast-food workers outside McDonald's in Los AngelesBy Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles City Council gave preliminary approval on Tuesday to raise the hourly minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020 for companies with more than 25 employees, while giving smaller businesses an extra year to meet that benchmark. "We are embarking upon, I think, the most progressive minimum wage policy anywhere in the country," said City Councilman Curren Price Jr. The federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 since 2009. Opponents of minimum wage hikes say they place an undue burden on businesses and force some employers to lay off workers and pass on higher labor costs to consumers.


Takata doubling U.S. recall for defective air bags to 34 million vehicles

Posted: 19 May 2015 03:03 PM PDT

Visitor walks past displays of Takata Corp at a showroom for vehicles in Tokyo in this file photoWASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) - Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp is doubling a recall of potentially deadly air bags to nearly 34 million vehicles, creating the largest automotive recall in American history, U.S. safety regulators said on Tuesday. The recall involves passenger and driver-side air bag inflators in vehicles made by 11 automakers, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Takata said. Regulators on Tuesday linked six deaths worldwide to defective Takata air bags which exploded with too much force and sent shrapnel into the vehicles.


Prostitute pleads guilty in Google executive's heroin death

Posted: 19 May 2015 02:31 PM PDT

Alix Catherine Tichelman sits in the courtroom with her attorney, Athena Reis, during her arraignment in Santa Cruz(Reuters) - A prostitute charged with killing a Google executive by injecting him with heroin on his yacht off the California coast pleaded guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter, court officials said. Alix Catherine Tichelman, 27, was sentenced to six years in prison by a Santa Cruz Superior Court judge after she accepted a plea deal in which a manslaughter charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter, a court official said. Prosecutors say Tichelman, a high-priced call girl, injected Forrest Hayes, 51, with heroin during a tryst aboard his yacht off Santa Cruz in November 2013.


Patriots owner says he'll accept deflate-gate punishment

Posted: 19 May 2015 10:19 AM PDT

Patriots Owner: Will 'Reluctantly' Accept Deflategate PunishmentRobert Kraft said he will accept the punishment of commissioner Roger Goodell in deflate-gate.


U.S. looks into whether hostage was kept by IS leader

Posted: 19 May 2015 02:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2013, file photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the Islamic State militant leader killed Friday was the captor of American hostage Kayla Mueller for a time. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Jo. L. Keener, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possibility that the Islamic State militant leader killed Friday was the captor of American hostage Kayla Mueller for a time.


Clinton urges State Department to speed release of emails

Posted: 19 May 2015 02:46 PM PDT

Hillary Clinton Campigns In Iowa, Meeting With Small Business OwnersCEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the State Department on Tuesday to speed the release of 55,000 pages of emails from her time as secretary of state, as her decision to spurn administration rules and use a private email address continued to dog her presidential campaign.


Motorcycle gang shootout started with parking dispute

Posted: 19 May 2015 12:52 PM PDT

WACO, Texas (AP) — A deadly weekend shootout involving rival motorcycle gangs apparently began with a parking dispute and someone running over a gang member's foot, police said Tuesday.

Unions urge Amtrak to put 2nd crew member in locomotives

Posted: 19 May 2015 03:06 PM PDT

Bruce Nagel, attorney for Amtrak conductor Emilio Fonseca, who was working on the first car of last week's train wreck in Philadelphia, speaks during a news conference, Tuesday, May 19, 2015, in Roseland, N.J. Fonseca has sued Amtrak, claiming negligence and carelessness on the part of the rail carrier. Eight people were killed in the May 12 derailment and more than 200 injured. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The union for Amtrak's locomotive engineers urged the railroad on Tuesday to put a second crew member at the controls of trains on the busy Northeast Corridor, where a derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others.


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