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FBI, New York police aware of Islamic State video, say no specific threat
There is no "specific and credible threat" against New York City, despite a newly released Islamic State video suggesting America's most populous city is a potential target of attacks such as those in Paris, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday. "There is no credible and specific threat against…
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Texas executes man for killing three children in house fire
Texas on Wednesday executed a 36-year-old man convicted of killing his daughter and two stepdaughters in a mobile home blaze in 2000. Raphael Holiday was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville and pronounced dead at 8:30 p.m., a prisons official said.
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Three killed, 250,000 customers without power after Washington state storms
About 250,000 homes and businesses remained without power in Washington state on Wednesday after a storm blew down trees and triggered mudslides, killing at least three people, authorities said. Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency throughout the state as a result of the…
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Calpers vote to lower investment return target draws governor’s ire
California Public Employees' Retirement System on Wednesday adopted a policy to gradually reduce the amount that the pension fund expects from its investments, a decision that came under fire from California's governor for not going far enough. The move by the nation's largest public pension fund…
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Pennsylvania attorney general's aide concerned by license suspension
A senior deputy of embattled Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane told a state Senate panel on Wednesday that the suspension of her law license could lead to mounting legal challenges to prosecutions by her office. Kane had her license suspended by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court after being…
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U.S. Republicans, defying Obama, propose tightening Syrian refugee screening
House Republican lawmakers defied President Barack Obama on Wednesday and laid out plans to tighten screening of Syrian refugees after the Paris attacks, in a political fight that challenges the U.S. view of itself as a refuge for downtrodden immigrants. Concerned about possible strikes against…
ReutersFirefighter injured in deadly Washington state blaze leaves hospital
A firefighter gravely injured battling a massive summer wildfire in Washington state that claimed the lives of three members of his crew, was released from a Seattle hospital on Wednesday after months of rehabilitation and surgeries. Daniel Lyon, 25, suffered burns over more than 60 percent of his…
ReutersColorado woman kills 38 sheep in crash, charged with drunken driving
A 47-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after her vehicle plowed into a flock of sheep in southwestern Colorado, killing 38 of them, police said on Wednesday. Lynn Ann Michel was driving her Isuzu sport utility vehicle on Tuesday night on a rural road outside the town…
ReutersMinneapolis shooting officers identified as protests rage
By Todd Melby MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Minnesota officials on Wednesday identified the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man as chanting demonstrators surrounded a key police station. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said Minneapolis Police…
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San Francisco judge rules couple's frozen embryos be discarded
A San Francisco judge ruled on Wednesday that a woman was not entitled to frozen embryos conceived with her now ex-husband in a widely-watched case over reproductive rights in the nation's most populous state. Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo made the ruling in the case between Mimi…
ReutersSome U.S. airport workers to strike Wednesday night: union
Airport workers at seven of the busiest U.S. hubs plan to strike on Wednesday night and Thursday over what they say are bad wages and threats against unionizing. Some 2,000 plane cleaners, baggage handlers and other workers will strike at New York's Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, as well as…
ReutersNo new date set for Utah oil lease sale delayed by activists
The U.S. government has not set a new date for an oil and natural gas lease auction of federal lands in Utah postponed this week following overwhelming interest from the public, including climate activists, who wanted to attend the event. Officials want to hold the auction as soon as possible but …
ReutersResearchers who unmasked drug suspects on Tor deny FBI paid them
The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University issued a statement responding to what it termed “inaccurate media reports” about an alleged $1 million payment by the FBI. The institute, whose research is largely funded by the U.S. Defense Department, did not deny that it was the…
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U.S. counterintelligence chief sceptical China has curbed spying on U.S.
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. counterintelligence chief Bill Evanina said on Wednesday he was sceptical China had followed through on recent promises to curb spying on the United States. Evanina told a briefing that he had seen "no indication" from the U.S. private sector "that…
ReutersNY City police aware of ISIS video but say no specific threat
New York City police are aware of a newly released Islamic State video that suggests that the largest U.S. city was a potential target of attacks such as those in Paris last week, but that there are no current or specific threats, the department said on Wednesday. "While some of the video footage…
ReutersColorado woman gets 208 years in prison for beating 88-year-old man
A Colorado woman who shoved an 88-year-old man she worked for as a housekeeper down a flight of stairs, tore skin off his arms and stole his car has been sentenced to 208 years in prison, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Jana Janette Bergman was found guilty last month of attempted manslaughter,…
ReutersArrest made in 30-year-old California murder cold case
Authorities have arrested a 67-year-old man for the sexual assault and murder of a San Francisco teenager whose body was found buried on a beach some 30 years ago, officials said on Wednesday. John Joseph Scott was arrested in Topock, Arizona, on Monday after the cold case was reopened earlier…
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Illinois policeman widow asks for access to frozen bank accounts
Fox Lake Police Lieutenant Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, 52, was found fatally wounded in a remote area of the northern Illinois community, about 55 miles (88 km) north of Chicago on Sept. 1. Authorities said in early November that he staged his suicide as village officials began learning that he…
ReutersHome detention for Missouri man charged with making threats
A 19-year-old white Missouri man charged with making threats to shoot black people on the University of Missouri campus faces home detention and no Internet access when he gets out of jail. Appearing in Boone County Circuit Court on Wednesday, Hunter M. Park was silent as Judge Kimberly Shaw…
ReutersBoston mayor aims to raise smoking age to 21
Boston could become the latest in a string of large U.S. cities to ban smoking and tobacco use by people under the age of 21 under a measure proposed on Wednesday by Mayor Marty Walsh. "We know the consequences of tobacco use are real and can be devastating," Walsh said in a statement. Cigarette…
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