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July 22, 2015 US HEADLINES

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.”

July 22, 2015 US HEADLINES

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

July 22, 2015 US HEADLINES

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

July 22, 2015 US HEADLINES

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