Malaysia finds mass graves of suspected trafficking victims
Malaysian authorities make the grim discovery near the border with Thailand.
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Streets calm after 71 arrested in Cleveland protests
CLEVELAND (AP) — The streets returned to calm Sunday after police arrested dozens of demonstrators overnight when protests grew increasingly aggressive in the wake of a patrolman’s acquittal in the deaths of two unarmed black suspects.
Cleveland protests erupt after officer found not guilty in fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects
By Aaron Josefczyk and Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A Cleveland police officer was found not guilty on Saturday in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman after a high-speed car chase in 2012, one in a series of cases that have raised questions over police conduct and race relations in the United States. Judge John O’Donnell said Officer Michael Brelo, 31, acted reasonably in shooting
After bruising safety crisis, U.S. car watchdog shows its bite
The U.S. auto safety watchdog, long criticized as toothless and slow, is showing both bark and bite under its new boss – a testimony to his credentials as a safety expert and a hardening of the administration’s policy after a wave of deadly defects. Having taken the helm of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in January, Mark Rosekind has wasted no time in forcing reluctant companies into recalling millions of defective vehicles. In doing
Mathematician who inspired 'A Beautiful Mind' killed in auto accident: media
(Reuters) – Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner who inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed in an auto accident along with his wife in New Jersey, ABC News reported. The Oscar award-winning film “A Beautiful Mind” starring Russell Crowe was loosely based on Nash’s longtime struggle with schizophrenia. Crowe wrote on Twitter on Sunday that he was stunned by reports of the death of Nash and his
GOP navigates the new politics of energy abundance
By James Oliphant OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans have had to watch from the sidelines as the Obama White House has taken political credit for America’s unexpected energy boom and tumbling gas prices. Now it has left their presidential candidates scrambling for a way to reclaim leadership on an issue the party once seemed to own. “We’ve got an abundance of supply,” Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said this
Pipeline that leaked wasn't equipped with auto shut-off
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pipeline that leaked thousands of gallons of oil on the California coast was the only pipe of its kind in the county not required to have an automatic shut-off valve because of a court fight nearly three decades ago, a county official said.
Ireland gives resounding 62.1 percent 'yes' to gay marriage
DUBLIN (AP) — Irish voters have resoundingly backed amending the constitution to legalize gay marriage, leaders on both sides of the Irish referendum declared Saturday after the world’s first national vote on the issue.
Irish voters back gay marriage in 'social revolution'
A referendum marking a dramatic social shift is approved by a landslide, supporters and opponents say
Ohio patrolman acquitted in 2 deaths amid 137-shot barrage
A patrolman charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects during a 137-shot barrage of gunfire was acquitted Saturday in a case that helped prompt the U.S. Department of Justice determine the city police department had a history of using excessive force and violating civil rights.