2015年6月10日星期三

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D.C. watchdog group calls for feds to probe alleged violations by NRA

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A watchdog group asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the National Rifle Association for failing to disclose $33.5 million in political expenditures on its tax returns over a six-year period.


Person of interest in upstate New York prison break: Who is Joyce Mitchell?

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:39 PM PDT

Joyce MitchellAuthorities are questioning Joyce Mitchell, a female prison employee, about the inmates who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility last weekend.


McKinney police officer blames aggression at pool party on emotional stress

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 12:03 PM PDT

McKinney police officer apologizes, blames aggression at pool party on emotional stressThe lawyer for a McKinney, Texas, police officer who has become the country's latest exemplification of bad cop behavior on Wednesday blamed her client's aggressive actions on emotional stress.


US orders more troops to Iraq, but no overhaul of strategy

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 01:30 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers train with members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, at Camp Taji, IraqWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more American troops to Iraq on Wednesday in an effort to reverse major battlefield losses to the Islamic State, an escalation but not a significant shift in the struggling U.S. strategy to defeat the extremist group.


NTSB: Amtrak engineer wasn't talking, texting on cellphone

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 12:46 PM PDT

The Latest on Amtrak crash: House committee to hold hearingA new report deepens the mystery of what caused the accident that killed eight and injured about 200.


New trial for man who said he killed New York boy to open in 2016

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 03:05 PM PDT

NYPD spokesman Paul Brown holds an original missing poster of Etan Patz during a news conference near a New York City apartment building, where police and FBI agents were searching a basement for clues in the boy's 1979 disappearance, in New YorkA new trial for the former New York deli worker who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz in a case that changed the way the U.S. responds to missing children will open in 2016, a judge said on Wednesday. A month after declaring a mistrial because of a hung jury, Judge Maxwell Wiley told Pedro Hernandez that a new jury would be picked as early as December to hear the kidnapping and murder case in state Supreme Court in Manhattan. Seven jurors from Hernandez' first murder trial, in which a single holdout declined to convict him in the 1979 killing, returned to court to hear the judge's decision.


Exclusive: Confusion clouds count of cars hit by Takata air bag recall

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:29 PM PDT

A flag with the Takata logo flies alongside an American flag outside the Takata Corporation in Auburn HillsThe number of vehicles on U.S. roads with potentially defective Takata air bags appears to be less than half the 34 million initially estimated by federal regulators, according to a Reuters analysis of recall records submitted to the watchdog and confirmed by the car companies. About 16.2 million vehicles — roughly one out of every 16 cars on U.S. highways — may have one or two defective air bags supplied by Japan's Takata Corp , vehicle manufacturers confirmed to Reuters. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday said it has not counted the absolute number of vehicles, but said it was aware of 30 million potentially defective Takata parts that need to be replaced.


Texas officer in video let 'emotions get the better of him': lawyer

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:26 PM PDT

A woman speaks during a protest against what demonstrators call police brutality in McKinney, TexasMcKinney Police Corporal Eric Casebolt, who is white, resigned on Tuesday after being seen in a video responding to a disturbance at a pool party on Friday where he appeared to target black youths, an incident that has added to concerns about racial bias in U.S. policing. "He never intended to mistreat anyone," lawyer Jane Bishkin told a news conference, adding that Casebolt hoped his resignation can bring healing. Prior to the incident, Casebolt had responded to one suicide and worked to prevent another, causing him to be under emotional strain when he arrived at the disturbance, Bishkin said.


McKinney officer who pulled his gun on teens resigns — but is it enough?

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 06:05 AM PDT

The white police officer who threw a black bikini-clad girl to the ground and pulled his gun on two others while responding to a disturbance at a pool party in McKinney, Texas, resigned on Tuesday. But some community members say his resignation is not enough.

Hunt for killers expands to Vermont; staffer under suspicion

Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:12 PM PDT

A law enforcement officer wrings out his glove while searching for escaped prisoners near Essex, N.Y., Tuesday, June 9, 2015. State and federal law officers searching for two killers who used power tools to break out of a maximum-security prison poured into a small town 30 miles away Tuesday after getting a report of a possible sighting. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — The manhunt for two escaped killers expanded to campsites and boat slips in Vermont on Wednesday, and State Police said a female prison staff member being questioned may have had a role in helping the men.


LeBron leads Cleveland to 2-1 NBA Finals lead

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Obama considers sending more troops to help train Iraqi forces

Posted: 09 Jun 2015 06:45 PM PDT

Obama delivers remarks at the Catholic Health Association conference in WashingtonJERUSALEM (AP) — The Obama administration is nearing a decision on how to improve and accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces in light of recent setbacks against the Islamic State, including the possibility of setting up new training camps in Anbar Province, U.S. officials said Tuesday.


S.F. Giants' Chris Heston no-hits Mets

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