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• Hillary Clinton calls McCarthy's Benghazi comments 'deeply distressing'
• Trump says he has license to carry: 'Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be shocked'
• Historic South Carolina floods: Heavy rain, hundreds rescued
• Chaffetz's bid for House speaker muddies GOP leadership race
• Doctors Without Borders leaves Afghan city after airstrike
• South Carolina hit by torrential rainfall; seven dead
• Debris appears to belong to cargo ship missing in Bahamas
• Gunman in Oregon college massacre committed suicide
• Obama pledges probe into fatal airstrike on Afghan hospital

Hillary Clinton calls McCarthy's Benghazi comments 'deeply distressing' Posted: 04 Oct 2015 11:10 AM PDT Hillary Clinton says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's suggestion that the select committee investigating Benghazi was summoned to derail her 2016 presidential bid is "deeply distressing" because it dishonors the four Americans who died in the terror attacks.

Trump says he has license to carry: 'Somebody attacks me, they’re gonna be shocked' Posted: 04 Oct 2015 10:35 AM PDT Donald Trump continues to court Second Amendment supporters in the wake of last week's deadly shooting in Oregon, suggesting the teachers at Umpqua Community College should have been armed — just like he is.

Historic South Carolina floods: Heavy rain, hundreds rescued Posted: 04 Oct 2015 03:12 PM PDT Trees and power lines across the Carolinas and Virginia are vulnerable.

Chaffetz's bid for House speaker muddies GOP leadership race Posted: 04 Oct 2015 02:28 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — An up-and-coming House committee chairman announced his long-shot candidacy Sunday for speaker of the House, adding a new dose of turmoil for reeling House Republicans.

Doctors Without Borders leaves Afghan city after airstrike Posted: 04 Oct 2015 01:43 PM PDT KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. and Afghan governments vowed Sunday to jointly investigate the attack on a hospital in Kunduz that killed 22 people, as street-by street battles continued between government forces and Taliban fighters and officials warned of a looming humanitarian crisis for civilians trapped in the city

South Carolina hit by torrential rainfall; seven dead Posted: 04 Oct 2015 04:15 PM PDT By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Torrential rainfall that South Carolina's governor called a once-in-a-millennium downpour flooded the southeastern U.S. state on Sunday, causing at least seven deaths in the Carolinas. The storm had dumped more than 18 inches (45 cm) of rain in parts of central South Carolina by early Sunday. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said parts of the state were hit with rainfall that would be expected to occur once in 1,000 years, with the Congaree River running at its highest level since 1936.

Debris appears to belong to cargo ship missing in Bahamas Posted: 04 Oct 2015 04:17 PM PDT Search-and-rescue teams on Sunday located debris appearing to belong to the cargo ship El Faro, which went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin with 33 mostly American crew members aboard more than three days ago, the U.S. Coast Guard and the ship's owner said. There was no sighting of the El Faro or any lifeboats, Tim Nolan, president of ship's owner Tote Maritime Puerto Rico, said in a statement. With no word on the fate of the crew, relatives gathered at a seafarers' union hall in Jacksonville, Florida where they were briefed by the Coast Guard and the ship's owner.

Gunman in Oregon college massacre committed suicide Posted: 03 Oct 2015 09:28 PM PDT By Courtney Sherwood and Emily Flitter ROSEBURG, Ore. (Reuters) - The gunman who killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college committed suicide after a shootout with police who arrived within five minutes and exchanged fire with him almost immediately, authorities said. Investigators had previously said the 26-year-old shooter was killed by the officers who raced to the rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, which ranks as the deadliest among dozens of U.S. mass shootings in the past two years. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told a news conference on Saturday the state medical examiner had determined that the gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, took his own life.

Obama pledges probe into fatal airstrike on Afghan hospital Posted: 04 Oct 2015 01:36 AM PDT President Barack Obama has promised a full investigation into an apparent US air strike on an Afghan hospital that killed 19 people, a bombing which the UN said could amount to a war crime. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said patients burned to death in their beds during a raid that continued for more than an hour early Saturday, even after US and Afghan authorities were informed the hospital had been hit. Afghan forces, backed up by their NATO allies, claimed to have wrestled back control of the city.

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