AP Explains: Etan Patz, missing boy who fueled movement
NEW YORK – The 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz helped catalyze a national missing-children's movement. Six-year-old Etan was one of the first children whose disappearance was publicized in what became a high-profile way: on milk cartons. His case also helped usher in an age of parental anxiety. The suspect in Etan's disappearance, Pedro Hernandez, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, is now about to be retried on murder and kidnapping charges, after a jury deadlocked last year. Hernandez confessed in 2..>> view originalLawyers present starkly different portraits of refuge occupation in closing arguments
Prosecutor Ethan Knight urged jurors to use their common sense as he framed the federal conspiracy case against Ammon Bundy and six others as strikingly simple: "These defendants took over a wildlife refuge, and it wasn't theirs.'' It's not about land use, he said Tuesday. It's not about their objections to more prison time for Harney County ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, nor is it about what happened during the 2014 standoff with federal agents in Bunkerville, Nevada. "They d..>> view originalDebate guests: Trump takes Obama's half-brother, Clinton picks Cuban
Hillary Clinton will be joined at Wednesday's debate by two well-known billionaires who are backing her campaign, in what may be an attempt to rattle Republican nominee by su btly questioning his own net worth.Meg Whitman, the Hewlett-Packard CEO and former Republican California gubernatorial candidate, and Mark Cuban, the outspoken billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, will both be Clinton's guests at Wednesday's third and final presidential debate.Meanwhile, Trump is countering with Obama..>> view original2 divers found dead in Florida cave system
Ten people, including two who were found Monday, have had fatal incidents inside the Eagle's Nest cave dive area in Western Florida since 1981. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said Patrick Peacock and Chris Rittenmeyer went diving on Sunday afternoon with a third man, who reported the duo missing.Search and rescue divers found their bodies the next day in a "very dangerous and complex area of the cave system," the sheriff's office said. Peacock and Rittenmeyer had come from Fort Lauderdale ..>> view originalDonald Trump Proposes Another Terrible Idea: Congressional Term Limits
WASHINGTON ― In the final flailing weeks of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump took the time on Tuesday to announce a handful of ethics reforms he would push for as president. Trump called for the passage of a constitutional amendment instituting term limits for Congress on top of a handful of lobbying reforms. “If I am elected President, I will push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress,” Trump said in a statement. “Decades of failure in Washington..>> view originalStudy 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...>> view originalSuspects 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..>> view originalPolice shoot and kill deranged bat-wielding woman in Bronx
An NYPD sergeant shot and killed a 66-year-old woman wielding a bat in the Bronx on Tuesday, and now cops say they're looking into why the officer used lethal force instead of his stun gun. Police were responding to a neighbor's complaint about Deborah ...>> view originalArizona court hearing to focus on lethal injection drug
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge presiding over a lawsuit that protests the way Arizona carries out executions is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday over a sedative that was recently abandoned as one of the state's lethal injection drugs. Lawyers for the state are seeking to dismiss the lawsuit's claim that the sedative midazolam can't ensure that condemned inmates won't feel the pain that's caused by another drug in a three-drug execution protocol. The state announced nearly four months ago that it..>> view originalFor young black activists, an urgent task: Persuading peers to vote
Kahlida Lloyd can explain her reasons for voting for Hillary Clinton, even if she is not especially excited about them. But she has a hard time making the case to obstinate friends why they should support the Democratic presidential nominee. Lloyd, 31, a lawyer, sought advice from other black millennials during a recent lunchtime gathering in downtown Washington. What should she say to encourage young black voters, who rallied in 2008 and 2012 to help Barack Obama make history as the first Afr..>> view original
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
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