Pacquiao on Mayweather: 'The Lord… will deliver him into my hands'
The prizefighter opens up to Katie Couric about his past and his life outside of the ring.
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Matt Bai: Chris Christie bets on bold
hristie’s gambit on entitlements is about more than the policy. It’s also about reintroducing him to primary voters as the only guy out there who is willing to tell you, in blunt terms, what you need to hear about the realities of government.
Floyd Mayweather: ‘I’m a winner and I know how to win’
The world’s highest-paid athlete talks to Katie Couric about the ‘Fight of the Century.’
Reserve deputy turns himself in to face manslaughter charge
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 73-year-old Oklahoma reserve sheriff’s deputy who authorities said fatally shot a suspect after confusing his stun gun and handgun was booked into the county jail Tuesday on a manslaughter charge.
'Slicing and dicing': How some U.S. firms could win big in 2016 elections
By Robin Respaut and Lucas Iberico Lozada NEW YORK (Reuters) – By one estimate U.S. online political advertising could quadruple to nearly $1 billion in the 2016 election, creating huge opportunities for digital strategy firms eager to capitalize on a shift from traditional mediums like television. These firms – mostly small, partisan and based in Washington and surrounding suburbs – have grown in sophistication since the last presidential election in
Shooting at North Carolina community college investigated as possible hate crime
By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – The fatal shooting of an employee at a North Carolina community college is being investigated as a possible hate crime, police in Goldsboro said on Tuesday. Police officials would not say what motive they were considering in the Monday shooting. The mother of alleged shooter Kenneth Morgan Stancil III told a local television station that the victim, Stancil’s former boss at the school’s
Reserve deputy in fatal shooting in Oklahoma turns himself in: CNN
By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – A reserve deputy charged in a fatal shooting in Oklahoma has turned himself in to authorities, CNN reported on Tuesday. Oklahoma prosecutors on Monday charged sheriff’s reserve deputy Robert Bates with second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a black man this month in Tulsa. Bates, 73 and white, fatally shot Eric Harris, 44, an African American, on April 2. Bates thought he
How Marco Rubio’s Cuban roots explain his campaign
Rubio’s views on both foreign and domestic policy—hawkish in the former instance and gentler in the latter—have been defined by his family’s roots in Cuba and his experiences coming of age in Miami’s exile community.
Ex-guards get lengthy prison sentences for Iraq shootings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting pleas for mercy, a federal judge on Monday sentenced former Blackwater security guard Nicholas Slatten to life in prison and three others to 30-year terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting that killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others.
Marco Rubio's presidential announcement
The 43-year-old GOP senator presents himself as a youthful, next-generation candidate.