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Live Updates: 12 killed in shooting at satirical newspaper office in Paris

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 04:22 PM PST

The manhunt for the terrorists responsible is underway.

Cartoonists pay tribute to Charlie Hebdo attack victims

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 10:36 AM PST

A drawing depicting cartoonist Jean Cabut, left, Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, center, and cartoonist Georges Wolinski, all three of whom were killed when masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo and reading in French, "Victims of their success, R.I.P", is placed outside the French Embassy as people gather to express solidarity with victims of the attack in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Three masked gunmen shouting Cartoonists from around the world create powerful images to honor those killed in Wednesday's attack on the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper known for its inflammatory caricatures.


Obama touts auto bailout success, Michigan worries about trade

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:45 PM PST

Obama visits the Ford Assembly Plant in Detroit, MichiganBy Jeff Mason WAYNE, Mich. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, on a trip to unveil elements of his State of the Union address, took a victory lap in Michigan on Wednesday to tout his support of the auto industry, but concerns about trade policies hung in the background of his tour. "America's resurgence is real," Obama said at a Ford Motor Co plant near Detroit after walking around the factory and sitting in a Mustang. Obama noted that his government-backed bailout of the auto industry was not popular, even in Michigan, but had been a success. ...


'Baby, It's Cold Outside': large part of U.S. in deep freeze

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 04:56 PM PST

Icicles are seen near a beach on Lake Michigan in ChicagoBy Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Schools in large cities across the Midwest and into the Northeast announced they will close on Thursday to protect children from bitterly cold temperatures as wind chill warnings were issued for most of the eastern half of the United States. The National Weather Service (NWS) warned of an Arctic air blast from Canada continuing to provide subzero temperatures for the U.S. Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Wednesday evening and into Thursday. ...


Cosby's Canadian shows go ahead in midst of new sex claims

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 04:30 PM PST

File photo of comedian Bill Cosby playing the vibraphone at a concert in BostonBy Andrea Hopkins and Eric Kelsey TORONTO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bill Cosby, the subject of more than a dozen sex abuse allegations over the past three months, will go ahead with three Canadian shows this week, coming as more women leveled accusations against the comedian. Protesters geared up to heckle Cosby and some fans tried to offload their tickets for the three performances in Ontario beginning on Wednesday. Cosby, best-known as Dr. ...


FBI says Sony hackers 'got sloppy,' posted from North Korea addresses

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:23 PM PST

FBI Director James Comey takes a question from reporter during a news conference at the FBI office in BostonBy Emily Flitter and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday that hackers behind the cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment provided key clues to their identity by sometimes posting material from IP addresses used exclusively by the North Korean government. The hackers, who called themselves "Guardians of Peace," sometimes "got sloppy" and failed to use proxy servers that would hide their identity, Comey said at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York. ...


House GOP tries to regroup after divisive speaker vote

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 04:38 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans began the new Congress with old divisions on display Wednesday, bitter fallout from a failed rebellion against Speaker John Boehner.

Young mother let terrorists into Charlie Hebdo building after threat against daughter

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 11:13 AM PST

Corinne Rey, cartoonist at Charlie Hebdo.A young mother says she let gunmen into the Paris office building housing the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo because they threatened her and her daughter with violence.


White House threatens veto on Republican bill to weaken Obamacare

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 10:12 AM PST

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this photo illustrationWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama would veto a Republican-backed bill that would reduce the number of people who qualify for employer-based health insurance under his signature Affordable Care Act. The bill, introduced on Tuesday in the U.S. House of Representatives, aims to require companies to offer healthcare coverage to employees who work 40 hours per week, instead of the 30-hour threshold under the reforms known as Obamacare. ...


Arab League and top Muslim body condemn Paris attack

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 07:02 AM PST

Representatives of the Arab League attend an emergency meeting to discuss the conflict in Libya, at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on January 5, 2015Cairo (AFP) - The Arab League and Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious centre of learning, both condemned a deadly attack Wednesday on a Paris satirical newspaper.


Obama calls Paris violence 'terrorist attack'

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 01:35 PM PST

White House threatens veto on KeystoneUS President Barack Obama condemned the "cowardly, evil" assault on a French satirical newspaper that left 12 dead Wednesday, pledging US assistance to Paris to bring the attackers to justice. The US leader, speaking from the Oval Office, expressed solidarity with France and pledged that the attack on Charlie Hebdo would not squelch the right to free speech held dear by both nations. "France is one of our oldest allies, our strongest allies," Obama said.


Paris shooting: Gunmen attack satirical French magazine

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:25 AM PST

Footage taken from nearby rooftops captures dramatic scene.

Tail of missing AirAsia jet located

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 12:15 AM PST

In this undated underwater photo released by Indonesia's National Search And Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, the part of the wreckage that BASARNAS identified as of the ill-fated AirAsia Flight 8501 is seen in the waters of the Java Sea, Indonesia. Divers and an unmanned underwater vehicle spotted the tail of the missing AirAsia plane in the Java Sea on Wednesday, the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage 11 days after Flight 8501 disappeared with the passengers and crew members on board. (AP Photo/BASARNAS)It's the first confirmed sighting of any major wreckage from Flight 8501.


Bitterly cold air stretches from Dakotas to Alabama

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:12 AM PST

Andrea Davis and her daughter Luna Rivera, 10, ice skate at the Holiday Ice Rink Downtown Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. A Central and Southern California heat wave has set records with highs topping 80 degrees in the dead of winter. The National Weather Service says Santa Maria's airport recorded a maximum temperature of 82 on Tuesday, two degrees above records for the day set in 1962 and 1918. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)Frigid air is blowing across the United States, dropping temperatures in many areas into the single digits and leading weather monitors to issue wind chill advisories and politicians to plead with residents to check on their neighbors.


12 dead in shooting at French satirical weekly

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Gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs and a rocket-launcher opened fire.


12 dead in 'terrorist' attack at Paris paper

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 06:06 AM PST

Paris shooting: 'Twelve people killed' at Charlie Hebdo officeHeavily armed gunmen shouting Islamist slogans stormed a Paris satirical newspaper office Wednesday and shot dead at least 12 people in the deadliest attack in France in four decades. The capital was placed under the highest alert status after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly that has sparked anger in the past among Muslims for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohamed. The attack took place at a time of heightened fears in France and other European capitals over fallout from the wars in Iraq and Syria where hundreds of European citizens have gone to fight alongside the radical Islamic State group. President Francois Hollande, who immediately rushed to the scene of the shooting, described it as a barbaric terrorist attack.


FBI to question 100s of patients after Texas clinic shooting

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 05:24 AM PST

CORRECTS YEAR - A Department of Homeland Security helicopter flies over the El Paso VA and Beaumont Army Medical Center campus during the search for a gunman in El Paso, Texas on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/The El Paso Times, Victor Calzada)EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The FBI plans to question hundreds of patients who may have witnessed a shooting at a West Texas veterans' clinic that left two people dead, including the suspected gunman, the agency said.


House reauthorizes special committee probing Benghazi attack

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 05:22 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-led House voted Tuesday to extend a special committee's investigation into the deadly 2012 attacks on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador.
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