| Police make arrest in road-rage killing of Vegas mom Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:15 PM PST  A suspect was arrested Thursday in the killing of a Las Vegas mother of four who was gunned down a week ago in a road-rage shootout after giving her daughter a driving lesson, police said.
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| Defense rests in 'American Sniper' murder trial Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:31 PM PST  STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys mounting an insanity defense rested their case Thursday in the trial of the ex-Marine charged with gunning down "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and another man.
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| U.S. Embassy: Turkey, U.S. sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:14 PM PST  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey and the United States signed an agreement Thursday to train and arm Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
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| Obama: Idea that West is at war with Islam is 'an ugly lie' Posted: 19 Feb 2015 01:46 PM PST  The president reiterates his call for the world to stand up to violent extremism.
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| Ex-New York assembly speaker Silver indicted Posted: 19 Feb 2015 12:41 PM PST  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grand jury indicted Sheldon Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker and one of the state's most powerful politicians for two decades, on federal corruption charges on Thursday, federal prosecutors said. Silver, who resigned as speaker after his arrest last month but remains the assemblyman for Manhattan's Lower East Side, was indicted on one count of honest services mail fraud, one count of honest services wire fraud and one count of using his office for extortion. Silver's lawyers said in a statement on Thursday he was not guilty. "We can now begin to fight for his total vindication," Joel Cohen and Steven Molo, Silver's lawyers, said in a statement.
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| Giuliani: Obama doesn’t love America Posted: 19 Feb 2015 05:16 AM PST  The former New York City mayor says he believes the president does not love the United States — or the people in it.
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| 61 of 70 jurors selected for Tsarnaev trial Posted: 19 Feb 2015 08:58 AM PST  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys argue that an impartial jury can't be found in Boston.
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| Matt Bai: Obama, facilitator-in-chief Posted: 19 Feb 2015 02:59 AM PST  In the last year or so, Barack Obama's team has deployed the presidential summit as a central response to just about every topic of national significance. At this late stage of Obama's presidency, the idea seems to be that talking about a policy — or at least being seen talking about it — is a kind of policy in itself.
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| ‘American Sniper’ trial puts rural Texas town in unwanted spotlight Posted: 19 Feb 2015 03:05 AM PST  People in the small Texas town where "American Sniper" Chris Kyle and his best friend were slain want justice, but say celebrity murder cases are meant for Hollywood, not rural hideaways. "It's different than normal life in Stephenville," longtime resident Chick Elms said of the trial now in its second week.
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| Bomb scare proves false alarm near Hollywood venue for Oscars Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:37 PM PST  By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A bomb scare triggered by an erratic motorist brandishing a propane tank at a shopping strip near the Hollywood venue for the upcoming Oscars show proved to be a false alarm on Thursday, but the man was detained, Los Angeles police said. Bomb squad investigators cordoned off a row of storefronts and the front entrance of a hotel across the street after a man who was driving recklessly in the area emerged from his car with the propane cannister, according to police on the scene. Bomb disposal technicians later detonated the items in question as a precaution, one officer said. The incident unfolded at about 11 a.m. local time about a block away from the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, where the Dolby Theatre complex is located, and police were on the scene for roughly five hours before the all-clear was given.
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| California mass shooter had penchant for Nazis, investigators say Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:22 PM PST  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A 22-year-old California man who killed six college students last year before taking his own life in a rampage near Santa Barbara had an interest in Nazis and conducted a Web search for torture devices, a report released on Thursday showed. Elliot Rodger stabbed three men to death in his apartment in the community of Isla Vista last May before fatally shooting three more people and wounding 14 others near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Rodger had a history of mental health issues and in an Internet manifesto before the rampage, expressed frustration about his lack of success with women. The report by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office detailing the outcome of its probe into the killings said investigators still could not determine what motivated Rodger to commit the slayings.
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| Accused aide to Osama bin Laden opposed calls for violence, jury told Posted: 19 Feb 2015 02:33 PM PST  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawyer for a Saudi man accused by U.S. prosecutors of acting as Osama bin Laden's lieutenant argued at the close of his trial on Thursday that he was a peaceful dissident who found the al Qaeda leader's violent ideology abhorrent. Khalid al-Fawwaz is charged with participating in several al Qaeda conspiracies, including one that resulted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, but he is not accused of planning the attacks. Instead, the government has said he provided crucial groundwork that facilitated the plot, such as sending equipment to al Qaeda members and functioning as bin Laden's "man in London." Defense lawyer Bobbi Sternheim told jurors in federal court in Manhattan that the government was trying to make al-Fawwaz guilty by association. "This case seemed like it was the United States against Osama bin Laden," she said in closing arguments at the month-long trial.
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| 'Superbug' outbreak raises questions about medical tool Posted: 19 Feb 2015 04:10 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A "superbug" outbreak suspected in the deaths of two Los Angeles hospital patients is raising disturbing questions about the design of a hard-to-clean medical instrument used on more than half a million people in the U.S. every year.
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