Monday, October 31, 2016

Suspects on loose in San Francisco school shooting and other top stories.

  • Suspects on loose in San Francisco school shooting

    Suspects on loose in San Francisco school shooting
    In the end, four students were shot in the parking lot of the small public high school, San Francisco Police Officer Carlos Manfredi told CNN. According to CNN affiliate KRON, investigators are now searching for multiple suspects who may have targeted a female student who is now in critical condition.The San Francisco Unified School District said the shooting was "an isolated incident outside of the school building where one student was being targeted by outsiders."Once the shooter struck the st..
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  • How Trump can use WikiLeaks in debate

    How Trump can use WikiLeaks in debate
    Donald TrumpDonald TrumpRubio to GOP: Ignore Wikileaks Trump brings the big lie about voter fraud Trump seeks game-changer in last debate MORE has plenty of new material to use against Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonRubio to GOP: Ignore Wikileaks Trump brings the big lie about voter fraud Trump seeks game-changer in last debate MORE in Wednesday night’s debate. The question is, will he use it?For almost two weeks, the controversial anti-secrecy platform WikiLeaks has been releasing daily b..
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  • Clinton plots mop-up of Trump's global mess

    Clinton plots mop-up of Trump's global mess
    Hillary Clinton’s campaign is already plotting out what she will do on the international front to reassure allies, deter enemies and otherwise repair the damage to America's reputation caused by Donald Trump — should she prevail on Nov. 8. The biggest challenge? Deciding where on earth the new president should start. Story Continued Below “Everybody wants to be the first call, everybody wants to be an early call,” a top Clinton campaign adviser told POLITICO. “People are curious about what her..
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  • How Donald Trump Hacked the Politics of Foreign Policy

    How Donald Trump Hacked the Politics of Foreign Policy
    Mr. Trump has exploited this dynamic, offering ideas that experts consider unworkable, but that tap into some voters’ desire for a strong-handed leader. Foreign policy, some research suggests, provided an ideal medium for this message. Typically, candidates cannot reach the national stage without first proving their fitness to certain institutions that care deeply about foreign policy: the news media that vets them, the parties that provide them with crucial support, the policy makers they will..
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  • If you want a more powerful President Trump, impose term limits on Congress

    If you want a more powerful President Trump, impose term limits on Congress
    By Thad Kousser October 19 at 5:00 AM Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colo., on Oct. 18, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) At a campaign appearance Tuesday in Colorado Springs, Donald Trump echoed Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” by calling for a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on Congress. As his crowd reportedly went wild, Trump claimed that “Decades of failure in Washington and decades of special interest dealing ..
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  • Faculty Officially On Strike At State Universities

    Faculty Officially On Strike At State Universities
    PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) — The union for more than 5,000 faculty and coaches at Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities says they are officially on strike. APSCUF faculty members are officially on strike. Our website is overloaded. Press release will be visible soon. — APSCUF (@APSCUF) October 19, 2016 The strike began at 5 a.m. Wednesday morning, as scheduled. Members of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties union had previously voted to authorize a strike. Faculty m..
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  • Presidential debate: What to watch for in the last Clinton-Trump face-off

    Presidential debate: What to watch for in the last Clinton-Trump face-off
    Both nominees enter Wednesday's presidential debate -- the final showdown of the election season -- with historically high unfavorability ratings, and need to convince undecided voters why the country would be worse off with their opponent in the White House. The match-up also comes as Trump is making perhaps his most outlandish argument yet -- that the 2016 election is rigged to help Clinton win. Clinton, meanwhile, will have a fresh set of questions to answer around newly released hacked email..
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  • NYPD Sergeant On Modified Duty Following Deadly Bronx Shooting As Officials Call For Full Investigation

    NYPD Sergeant On Modified Duty Following Deadly Bronx Shooting As Officials Call For Full Investigation
    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An NYPD sergeant has been placed on modified duty after police said he shot and killed an emotionally-disturbed woman who confronted him with scissors and a baseball bat. It happened shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday inside the 66-year-old woman’s apartment at Jaime Towers Housing at 630 Pugsley Avenue in the Castle Hills section of the Bronx. Police said the NYPD sergeant who arrived at the home after receiving a call about an emotionally-disturbed person found the woman wit..
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  • Study Urges Tougher Oversight for Police Use of Facial Recognition

    Study Urges Tougher Oversight for Police Use of Facial Recognition
    Photo The report found that 16 states allow law enforcement officials to compare the faces of suspects to photos on driver’s licenses and other IDs without a warrant. Credit Caspar Benson/Getty Images A new report by a think tank at Georgetown University calls for greater oversight in the use of emerging facial recognition software that makes the images of more than 117 million Americans — a disproportionate number of them black — searchable by law enforcement agencies...
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  • No, the presidential election can't be hacked

    No, the presidential election can't be hacked
    The public is understandably concerned about the integrity of next month's election.But election officials and cyber experts say it's virtually impossible for Moscow or some other outside group to influence the election outcome.Hackers could create mischief -- some say "chaos" -- but the election system is resilient enough to withstand shocks. The key concern, experts feel, is public perception: Sowing distrust is easily achieved even without successful hacks. Here are five things you should kno..
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