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NBC News: Protests Continue In Ferguson After Police Officers Are Shot
Protesters gathered near the Ferguson, Missouri, police department Thursday and chanted slogans like "the whole damn system is guilty as hell," a day after two police officers were shot as another demonstration began to disperse. The crowd of more than 100 protesters appeared to be peaceful. Demonstrators briefly blocked a road and rebuffed police who asked them to leave. About 20 police officers were visible, NBC station KSDK reported. Earlier, a group of religious leaders and demonstrators held a candlelight vigil and prayed not only for the wounded officers and their families, but for protesters and for the nation as a whole. Police are still searching for suspects. ... A St. Louis County police officer was shot in the shoulder and a police officer from the St. Louis suburb of Webster Groves was shot in the face at around midnight local time (1 a.m. ET) outside Ferguson police headquarters, as protests began to wind down, police said. Both officers were released from the hospital Thursday. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said three or four shots were fired at a group of police from about 125 yards away. He called the shooting an "ambush" and said the officers are lucky to be alive. Read more..
Huffington Post: Rudy Giuliani: Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson Should Be 'Commended' For Shooting Michael Brown
Citing a section of the Justice Department's scathing report of racial bias within the Ferguson Police Department, Rudy Giuliani said former Officer Darren Wilson should be commended for shooting unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August. During an interview on Thursday, the former New York City mayor said Wilson acted dutifully and was vindicated by the report's findings that there was not enough evidence to conclude that Brown had his hands up before he was shot. "What happened in Ferguson is that a man committed a robbery, attempted to assault a police officer, and the police officer -- to save his life -- shot him," Giuliani told Fox News. "The police officer did his duty. The officer should be commended for what he did." Read more..
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Reuters: Exclusive: Major Nations Hold Talks On Ending U.N. Sanctions On Iran - Officials
Major world powers have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council — plus Germany and Iran, are taking place ahead of difficult negotiations that resume next week over constricting Iran's nuclear ability. Some eight U.N. resolutions - four of them imposing sanctions - ban Iran from uranium enrichment and other sensitive atomic work and bar it from buying and selling atomic technology and anything linked to ballistic missiles. There is also a U.N. arms embargo. Read more..
NYT: G.O.P. Letter By Republican Senators Is Evidence Of ‘Decline,’ Iranian Says
Iran’s highest leader issued a sharp response Thursday to a letter to the country’s leadership by Republican lawmakers, deriding it as an indication that Washington is “disintegrating” from within. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, said the letter warning that any nuclear deal could be scrapped by a new president was “a sign of a decline in political ethics and the destruction of the American establishment from within.” The statement was posted on his website. Mr. Khamenei, who will have the final say in Iran over a nuclear deal, characterized the open letter written by 47 Republican senators on Monday as a reflection of Washington’s decadence. “All countries, according to the international norms, remain faithful to their commitments even after their governments change, but the American senators are officially announcing that at the end of the term of their current government, their commitments will be considered null and void,” Mr. Khamenei wrote. He said the letter was a “sign of declining political ethics.” Read more..
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Politico: Obama To Jimmy Kimmel: You Can’t Have Hillary’s Email Address
Americans worried about the security of Hillary Clinton’s email can rest assured that at least one mischief-maker isn’t going to get her address: late night host Jimmy Kimmel. At least, not if President Barack Obama can help it. “I can’t share it with you,” Obama said when Kimmel asked if he has the former secretary of State’s new email address. “I don’t think she’d want you to have it.” Obama appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Thursday during a West Coast swing that includes a fund-raising event in Santa Monica on Thursday and a visit to a VA facility in Phoenix on Friday. He fielded questions from the comedian about the possibility of ending Daylight Savings Time and whether he makes late-night runs to the White House kitchen in his underwear. (Don’t expect either to happen, Obama told him.) Read more..
Reuters: Obama Has Full Confidence In Secret Service Director Clancy: White House
President Barack Obama has full confidence in Secret Service Director Joe Clancy to pursue reforms needed at the agency in the wake of several scandals, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said on Thursday. "Nobody has higher standards for the Secret Service than Director Clancy," Schultz told reporters traveling on Air Force One, declining to comment on details of an incident in which two Secret Service officers are alleged to have driven a car into White House barricades last week after being at a party. Read more..
NYT: Secret Service Agents Said To Have Driven Into Police Investigation Before Crash
Two Secret Service agents suspected of drinking were captured on video last week driving a car that bumped into a barricade and rolled to a stop in an area cordoned off by the police because of a suspicious package, two people briefed on the video said Thursday. The video shows the agents’ car traveling at low speed under police tape that had been put up around the package, which had been dropped near an entrance to the White House grounds, these people said. The incident began when an unidentified woman stopped her car near the entrance and emerged carrying an object wrapped in a green shirt. She shouted that she was carrying a bomb, according to a police report. The area was quickly cordoned off and security reinforcements were called in, including an explosives disposal team.Read more..
Gallup: Clinton Favorability, Familiarity Bests 2016 Contenders
Hillary Clinton is one of a few potential 2016 presidential candidates to have a significantly higher favorable (50%) than unfavorable (39%) rating among the American public. And the 89% of Americans who are familiar enough with Clinton to have an opinion of her is more than any other potential 2016 presidential candidate. Clinton's relatively high scores on both dimensions give her a better starting position regarding her image than other competitors would have in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. These results are based on a March 2-4 Gallup poll of 1,522 U.S. adults, conducted just as revelations about the private email account Clinton used to conduct business while secretary of state became a major news story, but before her Tuesday press conference addressing questions about the issue.Read more..
Reuters: Netanyahu's Main Challenger Widens Lead In Israeli Pre-Election Poll
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a last-minute media blitz on Thursday to counter what appears to be a rising tide of support for his main opponent in next week's election, the centrist Zionist Union. The latest opinion polls show momentum shifting to Zionist Union after weeks of running neck-and-neck with Netanyahu's right-wing Likud, and the premier again warned voters who have abandoned his party for like-minded challengers that without their votes, he could lose. Forecast to win up to 24 seats to Likud's 21 in the 120-member parliament, Zionist Union hopes the gap will be wide enough to persuade Israel's president to ask its leader, Labor party chief Isaac Herzog, rather than Netanyahu, to try to form a coalition government after Tuesday's balloting. Read more..
Washington Post: Nonprofit Contractor Sent Government $1.1 Million Bill For Parties And Retreats
The largest nonprofit contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development during the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan billed the government $1.1 million for staff parties and pricey retreats — three of them held at one of the poshest destinations on the East Coast, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Pennsylvania. International Relief and Development of Arlington, Va., collected hundreds of millions of dollars to work in the war zones and help impoverished nations around the world. At the same time — between 2007 and 2010 — its executives were using IRD’s government overhead account to fund the parties and retreats, according to financial records provided by IRD to The Washington Post. Read more..
Politico: Loretta Lynch Nomination A Cliffhanger
Just days before her nomination as attorney general goes to the Senate floor, Loretta Lynch is stubbornly stuck right around 50 votes — suggesting a confirmation fight the Obama administration once seemed certain to win with relative ease will go down to the wire. Barring an 11th-hour surprise, Lynch is likely to be confirmed. But with four GOP senators currently backing her along with unanimous support from Senate Democrats, Lynch would secure the bare minimum required to be installed as the nation’s top cop – as long as senators hauled in Vice President Joe Biden to break a tie. Read more..
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Reuters: ISIS Leader Accepts Allegiance Of Nigeria's Boko Haram
The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls tracts of Syria and Iraq has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigerian Islamists Boko Haram, his spokesman said, calling on supporters to fight in Africa. Boko Haram, which has killed thousands and kidnapped hundreds during a six-year campaign to carve out an Islamist state in northern Nigeria, pledged its allegiance last week, highlighting increased coordination between jihadi movements across north Africa and the Middle East. "Our caliph, God save him, has accepted the pledge of loyalty of our brothers of Boko Haram so we congratulate Muslims and our jihadi brothers in West Africa," Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said in an audio message, referring to his group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.Read more..
Washington Post: Islamic State Could Infiltrate U.S. Through Caribbean And South America, General Says
About 100 people have joined the Islamic State militant group from countries in the Caribbean and South America, and existing human smuggling networks are in place that could allow them to infiltrate the United States if they return, said a top U.S. general on Thursday. Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, chief of U.S. Southern Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the networks are “so efficient that if a terrorist or almost anyone wants to get into our country, they just pay the fare.” “No one checks their passports,” the general said. “No one, you know, they don’t go through metal detectors. No one cares why they’re coming. They just ride this network.“ Read more..
Orlando Sun-Sentinel: Brothers From Oakland Park Plead Guilty To NYC Terror Plot
Two brothers from Oakland Park pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges Thursday, admitting they plotted a terrorist attack on landmarks in New York City and later assaulted two deputy U.S. Marshals while in custody. Raees Alam Qazi, 22, and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, 32, both pleaded guilty in federal court in Miami to one count of conspiring to provide support to terrorists and conspiring to assault two federal employees. The younger brother pleaded guilty to an additional charge of attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida. The Qazi brothers, who wore beige prison scrubs and were handcuffed, shackled and under tight security in court, both said "Guilty" when asked how they wanted to plead. They said little more than "Yes, ma'am" and "No, ma'am" in response to the judge's questions. Both men have thick beards, Sheheryar Qazi's hair was closely shaved and the younger brother's hair is about the same length as when he was arrested. Read more..
NYT: American And British Aid Workers Infected With Ebola In Sierra Leone
A worker from Partners In Health, the prominent American medical aid organization, and an emergency worker from the British military have been infected with the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, health officials said Thursday. The Partners In Health worker was the first in that group to be infected since it made an ambitious commitment last fall to help combat Ebola in West Africa, and was the first American health worker in months to get the disease while working in the region. The infections of both the American and Briton served as a reminder that the scourge that has ravaged Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea for the past year is far from defeated, even as the number of new cases has declined drastically. Read more..
Huffington Post: Carjacking Victim Describes Encounter With Tsarnaev Brothers
Jurors in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial heard testimony Thursday from a witness described by experts as perhaps one of the most important in the case against the accused Boston Marathon bomber. Dun Meng, a Chinese engineer, described Dzhokhar Tsarnaev emptying money from his bank account at an ATM while Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his brother, twice pointed a gun at Meng's head during a carjacking in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 18, 2013. Meng said he was sitting in his Mercedes SUV near the Charles River around 10:30 p.m. when a sedan pulled up behind him. Tamerlan Tsarnaev scurried from the passenger seat of the sedan and knocked on Meng's window. Meng lowered it, and Tamerlan reached in and opened the passenger side door. Read more..
WSJ: French Dairy Product Cartel Busted After U.S. Company Blows Whistle
For six years, French dairy executives met regularly over coffee and cigarettes in a chic Paris neighborhood to fix prices on France’s market for fresh dairy products, the country’s antitrust watchdog found. Then an American spoiled the party. France’s competition authority on Thursday cracked down on a cartel of 11 companies that make fresh dairy products under retailers’ own brands, fining 10 of them €193 million ($204 million) for having participated in a series of anticompetitive practices between 2006 and 2012. The Autorité de la Concurrence said the companies, including Yoplait, Lactalis, Groupe Andros’s Novandie and Senoble, coordinated prices and price increases for private-label products such as yogurts, milk-based desserts and fresh cream sold to big retailers, such as Carrefour SA, Auchan SA and Leclerc. Read more..
Washington Post: Metro Transit Police Fatally Shoot Man In Potomac Avenue Station’s Tunnel
A Metro Transit Police officer fatally shot a man in the tunnel at the Potomac Avenue station Thursday night, authorities said. The man was not authorized to be there, between Potomac Avenue and Stadium-Armory, a Metro spokeswoman said. Beyond that, little is known about why he was in the tunnel, or what happened once he encountered officers there. Authorities said it was not clear whether he was armed, or whether he provoked the police officers in any way. The man was not identified on Thursday night. Read more..
Hollywood Reporter: Andy Samberg To Host The 2015 Emmys
Fox and the TV Academy's choice for this year's Emmy host is Andy Samberg. The actor and comedian, star of the network's Brooklyn Nine-Nine, will emcee the live awards show on Sept. 20 — marking his first time hosting a major television event. “Buckle your seat belts, Emmy viewers!” said Samberg in a statement. “Like, in general you should buckle your seat belts in your car. In fact, even if you’re not an Emmy viewer, you should buckle your seat belt. It can be dangerous on the road. Also, if you’re not an Emmy viewer, you should strongly consider becoming one this year, because I’m hosting, and it’s gonna be a wild ride. So buckle your seat belts.” Read more..
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