| Father tells jury about boy's death at Boston Marathon Posted: 05 Mar 2015 04:30 PM PST  With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seated at the defense table no more than 15 feet away Thursday, the father of an 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombing described the moment when he looked down at his son's pale, torn body and realized he wouldn't make it.
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| Plane slides off runway at NYC airport Posted: 05 Mar 2015 09:46 AM PST  A jet carrying 125 passengers crashed into a fence while landing in snowstorm.
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| McConnell backs off clash with Democrats on Iran Posted: 05 Mar 2015 12:21 PM PST  Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday decided not to press ahead with a fast-tracked vote on Iran legislation in the face of Democratic opposition
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| Delta jet skids off runway during snowstorm at NY airport Posted: 05 Mar 2015 03:17 PM PST  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Delta Air Lines Inc jet landing during a snowstorm at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday slid off the runway and struck a fence before coming to rest on a snow-covered embankment just feet from the frigid waters of Flushing Bay. None of the 127 passengers and five crew members were seriously injured as Delta flight 1086 from Atlanta skidded on the tarmac at about 11 a.m. EST (1600 GMT). LaGuardia, the smallest of the New York area's three major airports, was immediately closed after the mishap. Hundreds of flights were canceled at LaGuardia, compounding weather-related travel disruptions in many parts of the country.
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| BNSF oil train derails in rural Illinois; two cars aflame Posted: 05 Mar 2015 03:59 PM PST By Edward McAllister and Catherine Ngai NEW YORK (Reuters) - A BNSF Railway [BNISF.UL] train loaded with crude oil derailed and caught fire on Thursday afternoon in a rural area south of Galena, Illinois, according to local officials and the company. The incident marks the latest in a series of derailments in North America and the third in three weeks involving trains hauling crude oil, which has put a heightened focus on rail safety. Dark smoke was seen for miles around the crash site, and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency told local WREX.com that two of the cars were potentially on fire. "If you're standing on the tracks you can throw a rock in the water." BNSF said there were no reported injuries and no evacuations. |
| Cardinal Edward Egan, former New York archbishop, dies at 82 Posted: 05 Mar 2015 02:52 PM PST  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cardinal Edward Egan, a former Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, who won praise for his leadership after the Sept. 11 attacks but was criticized for his handling of a clergy sex abuse scandal, died on Thursday at age 82. Egan, considered an expert in theology and canon law, was pronounced dead at 2:20 p.m. (1920 GMT) at NYU Langone Medical Center, where he was taken after eating lunch at his residence, the archdiocese said in a statement. As archbishop of New York from 2000 to 2009, Egan was praised for the role he played as spiritual leader of the city's Catholic community after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center. "Cardinal Egan spread love and knowledge, and brought comfort to countless New Yorkers and others across the country and the world who sought his guidance and counsel – especially in the aftermath of 9/11," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.
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| Cardinal Egan, retired N.Y. archbishop, dies at age 82 Posted: 05 Mar 2015 12:41 PM PST  Roman Catholic Cardinal Edward Egan, the former archbishop of New York, has died. He was 82.
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| Slain Missouri 18-year-old's parents plan wrongful death suit Posted: 05 Mar 2015 10:16 AM PST  Michael Brown's parents will file a wrongful death civil lawsuit against Ferguson, Missouri and the white police officer who shot dead the unarmed 18-year-old black man last August in the St. Louis suburb, a family attorney said on Thursday. He did not have to kill Michael Brown," attorney Daryl Parks said of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The announcement came a day after the U.S. Justice Department cleared Wilson of any civil rights violations in the shooting but said it found racial bias and a pattern of discriminatory and illegal actions against African-Americans by the Ferguson Police Department.
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| 'I was starring in a horror movie': Day 2 of the Boston Marathon bombing trial Posted: 05 Mar 2015 01:00 PM PST  Yahoo! News is inside the courtroom as gruesome testimony unfolds.
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| Matt Bai: Biden should run. Now Posted: 05 Mar 2015 02:07 AM PST  The handicapping crowd has never taken Joe Biden all that seriously as a foil to Hillary Clinton in a presidential run. But he's a middle-class champion who makes the case for economic fairness with more conviction than Clinton and less vitriol than Elizabeth Warren. He's a serious thinker on foreign policy who opposes rampant interventionism without sounding like a pacifist. He more than holds his own as a debater. And he has nothing to lose by making one last run before riding the Amtrak back to Delaware for good.
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| Attack on US envoy part of S.Korea's violent protest history Posted: 05 Mar 2015 08:19 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A knife attack Thursday that injured the U.S. ambassador to South Korea is the latest act of political violence in a deeply divided country where some protesters portray their causes as matters of life and death.
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| Source: Obama counsel not aware of Clinton's email practice Posted: 05 Mar 2015 08:01 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House counsel's office was not aware at the time Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state that she relied solely on personal email and only found out as part of the congressional investigation into the Benghazi attack, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Embattled Hillary Clinton urges State Department to release emails Posted: 05 Mar 2015 12:31 PM PST  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democrat Hillary Clinton on Wednesday broke her silence over a budding controversy involving her use of personal email for work when she was secretary of state, saying she wanted the U.S. State Department to release them swiftly. Clinton's statement was aimed at cooling a political firestorm over allegations that she inappropriately used her personal email for work while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. The State Department said it will review the emails provided by Clinton "using a normal process that guides such releases." "We will undertake this review as quickly as possible. Clinton's tweeted statement came hours after a congressional committee investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, issued subpoenas for her emails.
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| 'It WAS him': Defense admits Tsarnaev bombed Boston Marathon Posted: 04 Mar 2015 04:26 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — The question, for all practical purposes, is no longer whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took part in the Boston Marathon bombing. It's whether he deserves to die for it.
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