Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 27th January 2015 at 09:45 (about 1 day ago)
Jury selection for the trial of the accused Boston Marathon bomber will be postponed until Thursday due to the blizzard pounding the city, court officials said on Tuesday. A massive winter storm has dropped more than 14 inches (36 centimeters) of snow on Boston, with up to another foot of accumulation expected over the course of the day, according to the National Weather Service. Jury selection began at U.S. District Court in Boston three weeks ago, with the court planning to review some 1,350 candidates as it tries to find a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 27th January 2015 at 06:46 (about 1 day ago)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, killing four foreigners and five guards, and triggering an hours-long standoff that ended when two assailants set off a grenade that killed them, officials said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 27th January 2015 at 05:16 (about 2 days ago)
Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked the Keystone XL pipeline bill from moving forward on Monday, but supporters of the project vowed to push ahead and eventually get a vote on the measure. The Senate failed to get the 60 votes needed to limit debate, voting 53 to 39 on the measure. The Keystone bill allows Congress to approve TransCanada Corp's project to link Canada's oil sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Democrats, who lost control of the Senate as a result of November's elections, flexed their muscles to deliver a message to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he will have to deal with them even on bills that enjoy some bipartisan support. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 27th January 2015 at 05:16 (about 2 days ago)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The chairman of a special House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, promised Tuesday to "ratchet up" an inquiry he said is being hobbled by resistance from the Obama administration. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 27th January 2015 at 03:45 (about 2 days ago)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) ? No storm selfies, hookups, status updates. With Facebook and Instagram down for nearly an hour overnight, what were legions of users to do? #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 27th January 2015 at 03:45 (about 2 days ago)
Much of the region is shut down but the storm has so far fallen short of predictions. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 26th January 2015 at 23:16 (about 2 days ago)
By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Joan Rivers' daughter filed a malpractice lawsuit on Monday against the New York medical clinic that treated her mother days before her death, saying doctors there posed for selfies with their sedated celebrity patient even as her vital signs were plunging. Rivers, who was 81, suffered a loss of oxygen to her brain on Aug. 28 while physicians at the Yorkville Endoscopy center in Manhattan were performing procedures to examine her throat and vocal cords, and she died a week later at a New York hospital. Moreover, the complaint says, the outpatient clinic allowed a doctor whose presence was unauthorized to twice conduct a procedure that Rivers had not consented to, a trans-nasal laryngoscopy, in which a scope is passed through sinus passages into the larynx. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 26th January 2015 at 23:16 (about 2 days ago)
A man shot two police officers shortly after a swearing in ceremony at a city hall in a Minneapolis suburb on Monday night and then was fatally shot by other officers in a rapid exchange of fire, authorities said. The two police officers were in good condition and were expected to survive after the shooting at the city hall in New Hope, Minnesota, Chief Deputy Mike Carlson of the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office told a news conference. Two new officers were sworn in shortly after 7 p.m. near the start of a regular city council meeting and were fired at just after they left the council chambers by an adult male, Carlson said. Council member John Elder, a spokesman for the Minneapolis Police Department, can be heard saying, "Get down, get down, everybody get down. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 26th January 2015 at 21:45 (about 2 days ago)
Democrats on the special House panel investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks have accused Republicans of conducting the committee?s work without them and withholding information that would undermine the credibility of the panel itself, according to three letters obtained by Yahoo News. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 26th January 2015 at 20:15 (about 2 days ago)
By Scott Malone, Laila Kearney and Ellen Wulfhorst BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. blizzard swept past New York City and struck hardest at some 4.5 million people around Boston, dropping nearly three feet of snow in areas and triggering high tides that breached a seawall and forced residents to flee their coastal homes. The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut lifted travel bans they had imposed a day earlier and New York City's subway system restarted after being closed for 10 hours, but officials urged people to stay off snow-covered roadways. The snow was forecast to continue into early Wednesday morning in eastern New England, which could set a new snowfall record in Boston, where 20.8 inches (53 cm) of snow was already on the ground early afternoon, often piled higher by strong winds. "There are drifts now of four, five and six feet in some places," Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker told reporters. #