CHICAGO (AP) – Hours after Chicago officials released audio-free dashcam video of a white officer shooting a black teen 16 times, a 35-second excerpt with sound appeared online. But experts, police and an Associated Press analysis have concluded the audio is bogus. In it, viewers can see and supposedly hear Officer Jason Van Dyke firing…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Community, says it’s premature to conclude that one of the California attackers was self-radicalized or “moved by some international actor.” Schiff told CNN on Thursday that he had been briefed by the FBI in the morning and that information is…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Republicans have overwhelmed Democrats in a vote to end Planned Parenthood’s federal funding. Thursday’s vote comes as the Senate moves toward approval of a bill that would all but repeal the president’s health care law. The bill would also take away the federal dollars that Planned Parenthood receives. Democrats tried restoring…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – Environmental groups are appealing a judge’s decision to suspend new rules for oil and gas drilling on federal land across the U.S. amid a legal challenge to those rules. The Sierra Club and others say the rules should be allowed to take effect to protect land and water from practices including…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – Police and federal agents are for a second day searching a home in connection to the massacre in San Bernardino, California. A search team combed the residence early Thursday in neighboring Redlands, about 7 miles from the shooting at Inland Regional Center. A black sedan parked outside was also searched.…
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) – 2:30 p.m. PT: Police say the attackers who killed an estimated 14 people at a Southern California social services center came prepared with long guns. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan declined to say what kind of weapons they used at the Inland Regional Center. Burguan says a motive wasn’t yet…
DOVER, Del. (AP) – A Secret Service officer accused of trying to solicit sex from an undercover agent he thought was a 14-year-old girl has been indicted on a federal charge of trying to transfer obscene material to a minor. The single-count indictment against Lee Robert Moore was issued Wednesday, the same day a hearing…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump calls them a “crooked business” and Bernie Sanders says they’re “corrupt” organizations “buying elections.” But that barrage of insults hasn’t stopped the political groups known as super PACs and their donors from showing the two presidential candidates some love. A super PAC allied with a union that endorsed Sanders over…
