| Watch: Carly Fiorina on 2016 presidential bid Posted: 01 May 2015 01:09 PM PDT  Katie Couric talks with the GOP contender about gay marriage, Hillary Clinton, and more.
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| Neurosurgeon Ben Carson announces White House campaign Posted: 04 May 2015 08:34 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — Retired surgeon Ben Carson has made it official, telling a crowd in his hometown of Detroit that he's running for president.
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| FBI probed Texas gunman 'over jihadist sympathies' Posted: 04 May 2015 02:33 PM PDT  One of the men shot dead by police when he and an accomplice attempted to storm an event hosted by an anti-Muslim group in Texas was sentenced to three years' probation in 2011 for lying to US federal agents investigating his alleged jihadist sympathies, it emerged Monday. Investigators were delving into the backgrounds of the two suspected Islamist gunmen -- they were roommates, The Los Angeles Times reported -- who opened fire with assault rifles outside Sunday's controversial exhibit of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. A quick-acting traffic policeman shot the two suspects before they were able to enter the venue in Garland, a suburb of Dallas. Commentators were quick to draw parallels to a January mass shooting at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris that killed 12 people and wounded 11 more.
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| Britain welcomes naming of baby Princess Charlotte Posted: 04 May 2015 05:03 PM PDT  Britain's newspapers lauded the choice of Charlotte Elizabeth Diana as the name of the new baby of Prince William and his wife Kate as a tribute to family on Tuesday. Britain had been on tenterhooks waiting to discover what names the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would give their little princess, who was born on Saturday and is fourth in line to the throne. "Charlotte Elizabeth Diana: a name to honour the women in William's life" read the headline of The Times newspaper. Charlotte is the feminine form of the name of William's father Prince Charles, the heir to the throne.
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| Gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas monitored for years Posted: 04 May 2015 04:56 PM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz and David Schwartz GARLAND, Texas/PHOENIX (Reuters) - Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Two government sources who asked not to be named said the shooters were roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, of Phoenix. Court documents show that Simpson had been under surveillance since 2006 and was convicted in 2011 of lying to FBI agents over his desire to join violent jihad in Somalia. FBI agents and police searched the two men's home at the Autumn Ridge Apartments in north-central Phoenix, cordoning off the complex and evacuating residents for several hours in the early morning.
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| Baltimore police say man's gun discharged during arrest, no injuries Posted: 04 May 2015 01:48 PM PDT  Baltimore police denied a media report on Monday they had shot a black man while trying to take him into custody, saying the man's firearm went off accidentally while officers were arresting him and that no one was injured. The incident, which followed weeks of protests over the death last month of a 25-year-old black man in police custody, drew a crowd of about 100 protesters to a corner that was the site of a riot a week ago. A senior Baltimore police officer on the scene told reporters that the man had been put into an ambulance as a precautionary measure. "Nowhere on his body does he have a gunshot wound." Fox News, which had reported that the man had been shot while he was fleeing authorities, apologized for what it said was an inaccurate report.
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| NYPD officer shot in head dies, commissioner cites historic anti-police sentiment Posted: 04 May 2015 04:35 PM PDT  By Ellen Wulfhorst and Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head died on Monday, the fifth officer gunned down in as many months amid anti-law enforcement sentiment not seen since the turbulent 1960s, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. Officer Brian Moore, 25, was in an unmarked car pursuing Demetrius Blackwell, who was wanted on a weapons charge, when he was shot during the weekend in a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, police said. The shooting in New York comes amid months of mounting tensions after a series of unarmed black men died at the hands of police officers, the most recent in Baltimore where six officers were charged on Friday in the death of Freddie Gray. Moore is the first New York City officer killed in the line of duty since two uniformed officers were ambushed last December.
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| Garland shooting: Keynote speaker was on al-Qaida ‘wanted’ list Posted: 04 May 2015 08:41 AM PDT  Geert Wilders, who spoke at a controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, where two gunmen were killed Sunday night, was on an al-Qaida hit list that included Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier.
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| The U.S. military is failing its canine veterans. Inside one Marine’s fight to save her dog. Posted:  What do we owe our canine veterans? And what can we afford to give them?
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| Ben Carson, famed neurosurgeon, running for president Posted: 03 May 2015 05:45 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon turned conservative star, has confirmed that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
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