2015年3月23日星期一

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Fallout lingers after UVA rape investigation suspended

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 03:53 PM PDT

Today at 2pm on Yahoo News, police will release the findings of their investigation of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. A special report anchored by Katie Couric will follow. Watch here.Katie Couric and guests analyze the findings of a probe sparked by a "Rolling Stone" story.


Warrant: Ferguson shooting suspect confessed on hidden cam

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:00 PM PDT

A confidential informant wearing a hidden video camera recorded accused gunman Jeffrey L. Williams admitting that he fired the shots that seriously wounded two police officers during a recent demonstration in Ferguson, Mo., according to search warrants obtained by Yahoo News.

Poll: Most Boston residents oppose death penalty for Tsarnaev

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 01:39 PM PDT

Joe Kebartas of South Boston holds anti-death penalty sign as he stands next to the federal courthouse Monday March 9, 2015, in Boston, during the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev is charged with conspiring with his brother to place two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three and injured 260 spectators in April 2013. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)A new poll finds most Boston residents oppose the death penalty for admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.


Supreme Court grapples with free-speech case pegged to Confederate flag

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 01:24 PM PDT

This image provided by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles shows the design of a proposed Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate. The Supreme Court on March 23, 2015, will weigh a free-speech challenge to Texas' decision to refuse to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag. Specialty plates are big business in Texas, where drivers spent $17.6 million last year to choose from among more than 350 messages the state allows on the plates. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Motor Vehicles)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dispute over a proposed Confederate battle flag license plate, the Supreme Court struggled Monday to balance worries about government censorship and concerns that offensive messages could, at worst, incite violence.


Can Ted Cruz go from obstructionist in chief to commander in chief?

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 02:27 PM PDT

US Republican Senator from Texas Ted Cruz arrives on stage to address the annual Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, outside Washington, DC, on February 26, 2015His bid will test whether he can run largely on his very active role in slowing the Senate to a legislative standstill.


New Orleans judge declares Robert Durst major flight risk, denies bail

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:22 PM PDT

Murder suspect Robert Durst is seen with a newly shaved head as he sits in a hearing, in this court sketch in New OrleansBy Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, was denied bail on Monday after a judge deemed him to be a potential danger to others and a likely flight risk. Durst, recently featured in the HBO documentary "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," must remain in Louisiana on local weapons charges at least until his next court date on April 2, Magistrate Judge Harry Cantrell ruled. Durst's lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, did not seek bail but argued his client's arrest and the search of his hotel room earlier this month in New Orleans were improper, and that investigators wrongly interviewed him without counsel present. The HBO documentary broadcast Durst being presented with evidence that his handwriting appeared to match that of Berman's likely killer.


Boston bomb suspect influenced by Al Qaeda: expert witness

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 01:28 PM PDT

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in BostonBy Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was heavily influenced by al Qaeda literature and lectures, some of which was found on his laptop, a counterterrorism expert testified at his trial on Monday. Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, said some of Tsarnaev's Twitter posts and parts of a note he scrawled inside a drydocked boat where he was captured several days after the deadly marathon attack resembled Islamist publications. "We see in them (concepts from) al-Awlaki's statements and other writings from the radicalizers," Levitt said, referring to Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Al Qaeda figure who published lectures and a glossy English-language magazine about violent jihad found on Tsarnaev's computer. Tsarnaev is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, and with fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, tried to flee the city.


Ex-NFL star Sharper admits to sexual assaults in California, Arizona

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 03:39 PM PDT

Former NFL star Darren Sharper appears at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los AngelesBy Daina Beth Solomon and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former NFL star Darren Sharper admitted in court on Monday to drugging and raping women in California and Arizona and was expected to plead guilty in similar Nevada and Louisiana cases in plea deals prosecutors say will land him in prison for at least nine years. Appearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Sharper entered a plea of no-contest, the legal equivalent of guilty, to two counts of rape by use of drugs and four counts of furnishing a controlled substance, the prescription sleep medication Zolpidem, sold under the brand name Ambien. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said the five-time Pro Bowl National Football League safety was expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison under the terms of his plea deal there. Formal sentencing on the California charges was set for July 15.


New Hampshire lawmaker opposes fourth graders’ bird bill with antiabortion rant

Posted: 22 Mar 2015 10:44 AM PDT

ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, SEPT. 27-28 - In this photo taken on Sept. 16, 2014, Morgan, an adult red-tail hawk, sits in a cage at the Arkabutla Lake Wildlife Rehabilitation and Nature Center in Eudora, Miss. The bird has recovered from a fractured right wing and is ready for release back where he was found in Tallahatchie County, on the property of actor Morgan Freeman. Morgan is one of some 600 ailing or orphaned birds, mammals and reptiles taken in so far this center, with the goal of release back to the wild. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Stan Carroll)A group of New Hampshire fourth graders recently went on a field trip to the state legislature to see how a bill becomes a law. Instead, they got a lesson in government dysfunction.


Sen. Ted Cruz launches 2016 campaign at world's largest Christian college

Posted: 23 Mar 2015 12:01 PM PDT

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at Liberty University, founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, Monday, March 23, 2015 in Lynchburg, Va., to announce his campaign for president. Cruz, who announced his candidacy on twitter in the early morning hours, is the first major candidate in the 2016 race for president. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)The presidential hopeful courted conservatives with his kickoff speech.


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