| Clinton's Wall Street reform plan has tax on high-frequency trading Posted: 07 Oct 2015 04:52 PM PDT  By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose a tax on high-frequency trading, her campaign said late Wednesday. The tax would target securities transactions with excessive levels of order cancellations, which destabilize the markets, a campaign aide said. "The growth of high-frequency trading has unnecessarily burdened our markets and enabled unfair and abusive trading strategies," the aide said.
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| Obama apologizes to Doctors Without Borders following deadly airstrike Posted:  The president offers his condolences to Doctors Without Borders and promises a thorough investigation.
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| U.S. senator urges probe into Cold War-era antigay blackmail plot Posted: |
| Hillary Clinton doesn’t support revival of Glass-Steagall Act Posted: |
| At least 17 dead as flooding threat persists in South Carolina Posted: 07 Oct 2015 01:22 PM PDT  Flooding from historic rainfall in South Carolina claimed two more lives on Wednesday, and the threat of further inundation from swollen rivers and vulnerable dams put already ravaged communities on edge. Emergency responders in Richland County, a hard-hit area in the central part of the state, recovered the bodies of two people missing after a truck driven around road barriers was caught in floodwater, said Lieutenant Curtis Wilson. The death toll from the widespread storm that dumped more than 2 feet (60 cm) of rain in parts of South Carolina is at least 17, including people who drowned or were killed in car crashes.
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| Coast Guard ends search for missing U.S. cargo ship's crew Posted: 07 Oct 2015 02:18 PM PDT  By Susan Cooper Eastman JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday it was ending its search for the missing crew of an American cargo ship that sank off the Bahamas last week after sailing into the path of powerful Hurricane Joaquin. The air and sea search for possible survivors would end at sunset on Wednesday night, six days after communication was lost with the ship and the 33 people aboard, Coast Guard Captain Mark Fedor told a news conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Federal safety officials began an investigation on Tuesday into what maritime experts have called the worst cargo shipping disaster involving a U.S.-flagged vessel in more than 30 years.
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| Oregon gunman slipped into isolation after California move Posted: 07 Oct 2015 03:33 PM PDT  The gunman who killed nine at an Oregon community college last week graduated from a California high school for troubled teens that provided structured care, but nothing comparable was available when he moved to a small Pacific Northwest city. Some students with emotional and mental health disabilities who attend the Switzer Learning Center in Torrance, a Los Angeles suburb, are not even able to use the bathroom by themselves, but require monitoring and assistance by school staff, according to an employee. It is not known how much help the 26-year-old assailant, Christopher Harper-Mercer, needed while at Switzer, or whether he ever received a diagnosis of mental illness.
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| How a team of Obama veterans helped Bernie Sanders pull in a record number of donations Posted: |
| Nuclear smugglers sought terrorist buyers Posted: 07 Oct 2015 12:46 PM PDT  Smugglers are explicitly targeting buyers who are enemies of the West.
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| Trio wins Nobel Prize for mapping how cells fix DNA damage Posted: 07 Oct 2015 12:14 PM PDT  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Tomas Lindahl was eating his breakfast in England on Wednesday when the call came — ostensibly, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It occurred to him that this might be a hoax, but then the caller started speaking Swedish.
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| U.S. officials ask how ISIS got so many Toyota trucks Posted: 06 Oct 2015 04:43 PM PDT  U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world's second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror group's propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned. Toyota says it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and is "supporting" the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury Department -- part of a broad U.S. effort to prevent Western-made goods from ending up in the hands of the terror group. "We briefed Treasury on Toyota's supply chains in the Middle East and the procedures that Toyota has in place to protect supply chain integrity," said Ed Lewis, Toyota's Washington-based director of public policy and communications.
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