| Scott Walker drops out of 2016 race Posted:  The Wisconsin governor becomes the second GOP candidate to leave the crowded field...
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| Carson won’t back down from Muslim comments Posted:  The GOP presidential hopeful says a commander in chief should be "sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran."
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| Clinton says she won't let GOP 'tear up' health care law Posted: 21 Sep 2015 04:48 PM PDT  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday hailed President Barack Obama's health care law for reducing the rate of uninsured Americans and vowed to defend it against Republican opposition if she wins the White House.
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| Catholic lawmakers thrilled by upcoming visit of Francis Posted: 21 Sep 2015 08:37 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner has been trying for 20 years to get a pope to come talk to Congress. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says it's "thrilling beyond words."
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| U.S. expands VW pollution-skirting probe to other carmakers Posted: 21 Sep 2015 01:06 PM PDT  The US government has expanded its investigation of pollution-skirting devices in diesel vehicles to other manufacturers after Volkswagen admitted it used them to thwart US environmental standards. The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday that it will screen for so-called "defeat devices" in diesel vehicles on the road that are produced by other manufacturers. The California Air Resources Board is a partner in the investigation, an EPA spokesperson said in an email to AFP.
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| Plan to admit more refugees faces stiff opposition in Congress Posted: 21 Sep 2015 04:14 PM PDT  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House plans to allow thousands more refugees into the United States face stiff opposition on Monday in the U.S. Congress, where Republican lawmakers demanded the right to review, and reject, the effort, citing fears of terrorism. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday announced an increase of 15,000 per year for the next two years in the number of refugees the country takes in. Under current law, Congress does not have to approve the Democratic administration's plan.
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| Prosecutor: Short life of Baby Doe marked by neglect, abuse Posted: 21 Sep 2015 12:44 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — In her short, tumultuous life, Bella Bond loved cats, dancing to country music and the color green.
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| APNewsBreak: US weighs abstention on Cuba embargo vote at UN Posted: 21 Sep 2015 12:17 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration may allow the U.N. to condemn America's economic embargo against Cuba without a fight, The Associated Press has learned, an unprecedented step that could increase pressure on Congress to end the 54-year-old restrictions.
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| Republican Walker exits 2016 presidential race Posted: 21 Sep 2015 03:23 PM PDT  Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin abruptly pulled out of the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Monday, doomed by a lightning-quick collapse from serious contender to a candidate struggling to raise money and his profile. Walker, reading a statement in the Wisconsin capital of Madison, decried the negative tone of the Republican campaign in remarks seemingly directed at New York billionaire Donald Trump. Walker harked back to the late Republican President Ronald Reagan as a model for the party because "he was an optimist." "Sadly the debate taking place in the Republican Party today is not focused on that optimistic view of America.
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| Former peanut company CEO sentenced to 28 years for salmonella outbreak Posted: 21 Sep 2015 04:22 PM PDT  By Rich McKay ALBANY, Ga. (Reuters) - The former owner of a peanut company in Georgia was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Monday for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds, a rare instance of jail time in a food contamination case. Stewart Parnell, 61, who once oversaw Peanut Corporation of America, and his brother, Michael Parnell, 56, who was a food broker on behalf of the company, were convicted on federal conspiracy charges in September 2014 for knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted peanuts to customers. Contamination at the company's plant in Blakely, Georgia, led to one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history and forced the company into liquidation.
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| U.S. justices unlikely to address death penalty's constitutionality Posted: 21 Sep 2015 04:21 PM PDT  When the last U.S. Supreme Court term ended in June with an unusual showdown over a decision approving Oklahoma's lethal injection process, some court watchers saw it as a sign the court might soon take up the bigger question of the constitutionality of the death penalty itself. In the June case, which upheld Oklahoma's procedures by a 5-to-4 margin, liberal justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined in a dissenting opinion that called for a full reexamination of capital punishment.
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