| Report: Virginia governor under FBI probe over campaign donations Posted: 23 May 2016 03:41 PM PDT  The probe focuses in part on whether contributions to Terry McAuliffe's 2013 gubernatorial campaign violated the law, according to CNN.
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| John Hickenlooper says he probably would serve as Clinton’s running mate Posted: 23 May 2016 08:02 AM PDT On Monday, May 23, at 1:30 p.m. ET, Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric speaks with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper about the 2016 presidential race where the fight for the Democratic nomination wages on between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile, looking toward the general election, new polls show Clinton and Trump in a dead heat. Hickenlooper will also talk about his memoir, "The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics." |
| IRS chief : Impeachment charges lack merit, won't testify Posted: 23 May 2016 02:46 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The commissioner of the IRS said Monday that Republican allegations that he misled congressional investigators probing his agency "are without merit," and said he would not appear at a congressional hearing this week examining whether he deserves to be impeached.
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| Top Republicans bash VA secretary for ‘ludicrous’ comment about Disneyland lines and veterans’ care Posted: 23 May 2016 12:45 PM PDT  Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald caused a small uproar among leading Republican politicians on Monday after he said hospital wait times were not the best way to measure veterans' satisfaction with the agency. Or what's important?" McDonald said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, the Washington Post reported. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump were among those who criticized McDonald's comments.
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| Veterans hold Trump Tower protest after Donald Trump’s charity fundraising drive comes up short Posted: 23 May 2016 12:12 PM PDT  A group of veterans went to Donald Trump's headquarters in midtown Manhattan on Monday to demand an apology and answers after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's campaign admitted a veterans fundraiser did not raise as much money as he had initially claimed. "We're here as a group of veterans to reject Donald Trump," McCoy said. The protest came on the heels of a Washington Post report published Saturday, in which Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, said the fundraiser only brought in about $4.5 million.
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| Even Lindsey Graham is reportedly telling Republicans to support Donald Trump Posted: 23 May 2016 07:32 AM PDT  Lindsey Graham is now urging members of his party to support Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee. "I'd rather lose without Donald Trump than try to win with with him. At the time, Trump was also firing off scathing attacks against Graham, then one of his rivals in the race for the GOP nomination.
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| Mission not quite accomplished: Obama’s antiterrorism legacy Posted: 23 May 2016 02:01 AM PDT  Three years ago today, Barack Obama gave a major counterterrorism address at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. It was what his aides call a "framing" speech, an effort to knit together an overarching approach to the fight against radical terrorists. Predictably, Obama touted his administration's key successes. Osama bin Laden was dead, the core al-Qaida organization in Pakistan was "on a path to defeat," and there had been no "large-scale" terror attacks on U.S. soil since he had taken office.
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| Officer acquitted on all charges in Freddie Gray case Posted: 23 May 2016 11:09 AM PDT  A Baltimore officer was acquitted of assault and other charges Monday in the arrest of Freddie Gray, dealing prosecutors a second straight blow in their attempt to hold police accountable for the black man's death from injuries suffered in the back of a police van. The judge who decided Officer Edward Nero's fate in the non-jury trial concluded Nero played little role in the arrest and wasn't responsible for the failure by police to buckle Gray in. Nero, who is white, was the second of six officers charged in the racially combustible case to stand trial.
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| Supreme Court rules for black Georgia death row inmate Posted: 23 May 2016 11:47 AM PDT  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively overturned a black man's 1987 conviction for murdering a white woman, rebuking Georgia prosecutors for unlawfully excluding black potential jurors in picking an all-white jury that condemned him to death. The 7-1 ruling handed a major victory to Timothy Foster, who is 48 now and was 18 at the time of the 1986 killing of Queen Madge White, a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher, in Rome, Georgia. Prosecutors, however, still could seek a new trial.
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| IS blasts in Syria regime heartland kill more than 148 Posted: 23 May 2016 12:39 PM PDT  More than 148 people were killed Monday in bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria, the deadliest attacks to date in the regime's coastal heartland. Seven near-simultaneous explosions targeted bus stations, hospitals and other civilian sites in the seaside cities of Jableh and Tartus, which until now had been relatively insulated from Syria's five-year war. The attacks on strongholds of President Bashar al-Assad's regime came as IS faces mounting pressure in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where a major offensive to retake the jihadist-held city of Fallujah is underway.
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| Obama banishing Vietnam War vestige by lifting arms embargo Posted: 23 May 2016 01:03 PM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Eager to banish lingering shadows of the Vietnam War, President Barack Obama lifted the U.S. embargo on selling arms to America's former enemy Monday and made the case for a more trusting and prosperous relationship going forward. Activists said the president was being too quick to gloss over serious human rights abuses in his push to establish warmer ties.
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| White House: No invite issued to ex-POW for Hiroshima visit Posted: 23 May 2016 09:04 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. veterans group says an American who was held by Japan as a prisoner of war during World War II will accompany President Barack Obama on his historic visit to Hiroshima this week, but the White House said Monday that no such invitation has been issued.
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| Wild US election fascinates, worries Iran after nuclear deal Posted: 23 May 2016 01:17 AM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — After decades of officially-imposed detachment from the "Great Satan," Iranians are this time transfixed by the wild U.S. presidential campaign, mindful that the next White House occupant could have direct impact on their lives.
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| In swing-state suburbs, white women are skeptical of Trump Posted: 23 May 2016 12:50 AM PDT  WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — For Donald Trump to win the White House in November, he'll need the votes of women like lifelong Republican Wendy Emery.
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| 17 girls killed in fire at school dormitory in Thailand Posted: 23 May 2016 12:32 AM PDT  Seventeen girls died after a fire swept through the dormitory of a school for children of hill tribes in northern Thailand, officials said Monday, with a survivor describing fleeing as flames engulfed the building. Seventeen girls were killed, with five injured," Colonel Prayad Singsin of the police in the town of Chiang Rai told AFP.
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