Tuesday, September 13, 2016

LAX shooter's plea agreement reveals he did not consider himself a terrorist, but a 'patriot' and other top stories.

  • LAX shooter's plea agreement reveals he did not consider himself a terrorist, but a 'patriot'

    Paul Ciancia, the gunman whose 2013 rampage at Los Angeles International Airport left a Transportation Security Administration officer dead and three others injured, has agreed to plead guilty to all pending federal charges, according to court papers filed Thursday.Ciancia, now 26, will formally enter the guilty plea to 11 felony counts related to his Nov. 1, 2013, attack in the airport’s bustling Terminal 3, including the murder of TSA Officer Gerardo I. Hernandez. As part of the plea deal, pr..
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  • Ex-Stanford swimmer: Brock Turner is 'the problem'

    Ex-Stanford swimmer: Brock Turner is 'the problem'
    "As a parent, it's important to teach your children the difference between right and wrong," said Muhammad, a father of four children. "It's also important to teach your children accountability. What Brock Allen did on that night was wrong. ...""Brock needs to realize that he was, and is, the problem here," he added.Muhammad said he had never met Turner and that he only keeps in touch with elite swimmers within the program.In a wide-ranging interview about the case that has stirred national outr..
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  • Wade: Purpose in Chicago bigger than basketball

    Wade: Purpose in Chicago bigger than basketball
    Dwyane Wade's focus is on more than basketball as he returns to Chicago to play for his hometown Bulls.In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" that aired Friday morning, Wade said he hopes to help bring change to a city that has hit been hard by violence this year."My purpose for being back in the city is bigger than basketball -- basketball is a big part of it of course, it's what I do for a living," Wade said. "But I think my purpose at the end of the day hopefully is to come to Chic..
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  • Payrolls in U.S. Rise by 151000 in August; Jobless Rate Steady

    Payrolls in U.S. Rise by 151000 in August; Jobless Rate Steady
    Companies kept adding to payrolls in August while measures of slack in the labor market were little changed, signaling steady hiring in the face of lackluster global growth.Payrolls climbed by 151,000 last month following a 275,000 gain in July that was larger than previously estimated, a Labor Department report showed Friday in Washington. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 180,000. The jobless rate and labor participation rate held steady, while wage gains moderated and hour..
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  • Man Charged in Chicago-Area Girl's 1991 Death

    Man Charged in Chicago-Area Girl's 1991 Death
    An Illinois judge ordered a 58-year-old man held without bond Thursday on a murder charge in the 1991 kidnapping, rape and fatal shooting of a 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl, a notorious case that initially led to the wrongful conviction of five men. Five years ago, DNA tests cleared the group of men of all charges in the death of teenager Cateresa Matthews of Dixmoor. The men, who became known as the "Dixmoor Five," spent a decade or more in prison before DNA evidence pointed instead to ..
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  • Utah Climbers Kyle Dempster, Scott Adamson Go Missing on Pakistan Peak

    Utah Climbers Kyle Dempster, Scott Adamson Go Missing on Pakistan Peak
    SALT LAKE CITY — Two well-known Utah mountain climbers were missing in Pakistan Friday, 11 days after they began to ascend an icy and treacherous peak dubbed Ogre II. Alpinists Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson set out to climb the north face of the Choktoi Glacier in northern Pakistan on Aug. 21 and had not returned when they were due on Aug. 26, said Jonathan Thesenga of Black Diamond Equipment. The Utah-based outdoor company sponsors Dempster. Kyle Dempster (left) and Scott Adamson...
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  • Hurricane Hermine hits Florida, weakens into tropical storm

    Hurricane Hermine hits Florida, weakens into tropical storm
    It made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in the Big Bend area, a part of the Gulf Coast where the state's peninsula meets the Panhandle.In Tallahassee, more than 100,000 utility customers were without power as winds and rain lashed the city, according to the mayor's office. A few hours after landfall, Hermine had weakened into a tropical storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. All hurricane watches and warnings were dropped, but tropical storm warnings remained for parts of the Flor..
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  • Biden silences protester by invoking memory of his son

    Biden silences protester by invoking memory of his son
    Vice President Joe Biden invoked the memory of his son to silence a protester at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton. “My friends died, my American friends,” an audience member heckled, interrupting the vice president at a campaign rally Thursday night in Cleveland. The crowd tried to silence the protester with chants of “U-S-A!” and “Hillary! Hillary!” The heckler, referring to the US policy in Syria and the fight against ISIS, continued, “My friend died.” “Will you listen?” Biden answered. “..
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  • GOP insiders: Trump's trip was a hit

    GOP insiders: Trump's trip was a hit
    Republicans judged Donald Trump's immigration play Wednesday — which consisted of dual visits to Mexico City and Phoenix — as a success for his presidential campaign. Two-thirds of GOP members of The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, operatives and strategists in 11 key battleground states — rated the Republican nominee's meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto, followed by an evening rally in Phoenix in which he reiterated his robust immigration proposals, as hugely or moderately succ..
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  • Gun-wielding homeowner confronts driver playing 'Pokemon Go'

    By Associated Press September 2 at 7:37 AM SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. — Authorities say a South Florida man who is a former police officer drew a gun on a driver when he pulled into the man’s driveway to play “Pokemon Go.” Citing a police report, The SunSentinel (http://bit.ly/2bY2y0M ) reports that 26-year-old Jawad Awan was playing the popular smartphone game Aug. 12 in Geoffrey Goldstein’s Southwest Ranches driveway when Goldstein pulled a handgun from his waistband. Goldstein says there had..
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