| Bill Cosby arraigned on sex assault charge Posted:  The troubled comedian, 78, will remain free on $1 million bail pending trial.
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| Chicago mayor plots changes to police policy after deadly shootings Posted: 30 Dec 2015 02:07 PM PST  By Dave McKinney CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police will get new equipment and training to help them defuse tense situations and limit their use of lethal force, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday, following weeks of protests calling for him to resign over his handling of fatal police shootings. The number of Tasers, or electric stun guns that are generally not lethal, for the police department will be doubled to 1,400 so that every patrol unit that goes out at night has one, Emanuel said at a news conference. "Just because you are trained that you can use force, doesn't mean you should," Emanuel said at the news conference, flanked by top officials including interim Police Superintendent John Escalante.
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| NAACP calls for civil disobedience in Cleveland after Tamir Rice ruling Posted: 30 Dec 2015 11:52 AM PST  Civil rights groups in Cleveland have unveiled their list of demands and are calling upon activists to join them in protest against the decision not to indict the officers who killed Tamir Rice.
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| Bill Cosby charged with felony sexual assault in Pennsylvania Posted: 30 Dec 2015 03:38 PM PST  By Daniel Kelley NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004, marking the only criminal case against the once-beloved performer whose father-figure persona has been tainted by dozens of misconduct accusations. Cosby, 78, walking with a cane and accompanied by two lawyers, appeared for his arraignment hours later at a courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, where he posted a $1 million bond, turned over his passport and was ordered to avoid any contact with his accuser. Smiling and politely thanking District Court Judge Elizabeth McHugh at the end of the brief proceeding, Cosby left the courthouse and was driven to a nearby police precinct to be finger-printed and booked.
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| Neighbor of San Bernardino gunman indicted on terrorism charge Posted: 30 Dec 2015 04:32 PM PST  A former neighbor accused of supplying assault rifles to the couple who massacred 14 people in San Bernardino, California, was indicted Wednesday on charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The indictment accuses Enrique Marquez, 24, with conspiring with San Bernardio gunman Syed Rizwan Farook in 2011 and 2012 to support a terrorist attack that was never carried out, as well as making false statements to federal authorities. Farook launched the Islamic State-inspired rampage in San Bernardino on Dec. 2 with his wife, Tashfeen Malik.
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| San Bernardino shooter's visa file raised no red flags: U.S. government sources Posted: 30 Dec 2015 02:25 PM PST  State Department visa officers conducted all required security checks on Tashfeen Malik, one of two shooters in the San Bernardino massacre early this month, but found no "derogatory" information before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2013, a person familiar with the documentation said. The standard security inquiries include interagency counter-terrorism screening, fingerprint checks, facial recognition analysis and checks against worldwide U.S. consular records, a State Department source said. Because there was no derogatory information in Malik's application, visa officers had no grounds for ordering deeper investigations into her background, let alone blocking her entry when she arrived in the United States in December 2013, officials have said.
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| Hillary Clinton: What ISIS is doing is ‘genocide’ Posted: 30 Dec 2015 07:28 AM PST  Clinton speaks at a town hall event in Portsmouth, N.H., on Tuesday.
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| Texas 'affluenza' teen and his mother block extradition from Mexico Posted: 30 Dec 2015 01:38 PM PST  By Marice Richter and Dave Graham FORT WORTH/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Texas teenager, scorned for his "affluenza" defense in a deadly car crash, and his mother won a delay in extradition from Mexico on Wednesday where they fled as U.S. authorities investigated whether he had violated a probation deal that kept him out of prison. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, 48-year-old Tonya Couch, were captured in the Mexican Pacific Coast city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday and had been due to be flown back to Houston accompanied by U.S. Marshals. Ricardo Vera, a Mexican migration official in Jalisco state, said the pair had filed an injunction to delay their extradition and they would not be leaving on Wednesday.
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| Rescue crews assist with evacuations in Midwest flooding Posted: 30 Dec 2015 03:52 PM PST  Hundreds of homes could be threatened by rare winter flooding on the Mississippi River.
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| US says Iran launched 'provocative' rocket test near ships Posted: 30 Dec 2015 02:20 PM PST  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday accused Iran of launching a "highly provocative" rocket test last week near its warships and commercial traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz, exposing how tensions between the two countries could escalate even after a landmark nuclear deal.
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