Footage of Sandra Bland's traffic stop released
Police video shows an officer telling the unarmed woman, “I will light you up.”
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Obama tells Jon Stewart: You 'cannot leave the show'
Fulfilling yet another obligation as an outgoing President, Barack Obama paid a ceremonial visit to The Daily Show on Tuesday night, his farewell to another outgoing dignitary, Jon Stewart. “I’m going to issue a new executive order,” said the President. “Jon Stewart cannot leave the show.” Then he added wryly, “It’s being challenged in the courts.” With a tone approaching jealousy, Obama said, “I can’t believe you’re leaving before me.”
Texas officials say video of Sandra Bland traffic stop not edited
The video, released publicly late on Tuesday, shows how the stop of Sandra Bland for a failure to signal a lane change quickly escalated into an altercation between her and a state trooper. Footage where a car or a tow truck driver are suddenly seen in different places or gone raised questions about whether the video had been altered. “The video has not been edited,” Tom Vinger, a spokesman for
U.S. team in Jordan to interrogate uncle of Tennessee shooter: lawyer
U.S. investigators are in Jordan to interrogate the Jordanian-American uncle of a suspect in the fatal shooting of five U.S. servicemen in Tennessee last week, the uncle’s lawyer said on Wednesday. The suspected gunman, 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, was killed in a gunfight with police on July 16 after he sprayed gunfire at a military recruitment center in Chattanooga and then at a nearby Naval Reserve Center. The engineer’s family
Colorado death penalty in focus as massacre trial enters new phase
The lead prosecutor in the Colorado movie massacre trial tore into the state’s governor at a news conference, calling him arrogant and weak for giving the mass murderer a reprieve from execution. This was two years ago, and Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler was not talking about James Holmes, who last week was found guilty on all counts by a jury for fatally shooting 12 people and wounding 70
Biogen Alzheimer's drug data falls flat, Lilly gets slight bump
Disappointing data for Biogen Inc’s experimental Alzheimer’s drug dragged shares in the company lower on Wednesday, while investors took a slightly more positive view of new findings for a treatment from Eli Lilly and Co. Shares in Biogen traded 2.7 percent lower after falling as much as 4.9 percent, while Lilly was up 0.3 percent, recovering from a decline of 4.7 percent after the two companies released study data at
Lawmaker: VA 'took their eye off the ball' in budget crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress are blasting the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to warn them about a budget crisis that could force the shutdown of some VA hospitals next month.
Many Vietnam veterans have PTSD 40 years after war’s end
One third of veterans with PTSD also suffer from major depressive disorder, the research team reports in JAMA Psychiatry. For some of these aging veterans, mounting health problems and declining cognitive function can exacerbate PTSD, as can the social isolation that often accompanies retirement, said lead study author Dr. Charles Marmar, chairman of psychiatry and director of the veterans’ center at New York University Langone Medical Center. To assess PTSD,
Promise seen for drug in patients with early Alzheimer's
A new kind of drug to fight Alzheimer’s has shown promise when given to people in the early stages of the disease, drug-maker Eli Lilly said Wednesday. Known as solanezumab, the drug is a monoclonal antibody that helps the brain clear amyloid-beta before it clumps together to form plaques that are implicated in Alzheimer’s, which affects 44 million people living with dementia worldwide, and has no effective treatment. In 2012,