Monday, October 30, 2017

Protests erupt in St. Louis after former cop who shot driver acquitted ... and other top stories.

  • Protests erupt in St. Louis after former cop who shot driver acquitted ...

    Protests erupt in St. Louis after former cop who shot driver acquitted ...
    Demonstrators clashed with police officers Friday night in St. Louis after the acquittal of a white former police officer who was charged with murder last year for fatally shooting a black driver after a car chase. In a video tweeted after midnight on Saturday,  St. Louis police chief Lawrence O'Toole said at least 23 people had been arrested as of 6 p.m., and 10 police officers had suffered injuries including a broken jaw and a dislocated shoulder. "Many of the demonstrators were peaceful. How..
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  • Police searching for assailant who detonated bomb in London ...

    Police searching for assailant who detonated bomb in London ...
    LONDON — Police in London were searching for the assailant who detonated a homemade bomb Friday that sent a scorching blast of flame and smoke through a London subway car, injuring at least 29 rush-hour commuters and sending panicked crowds scrambling for safety in what police called a terrorist incident. As of Friday evening, authorities had given no details on possible suspects. Security measures were tightened across London’s vast mass-transit network, and the government described the threa..
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  • Taxpayers billed $1092 for an official's two-night stay at Trump's Mar ...

    Taxpayers billed $1092 for an official's two-night stay at Trump's Mar ...
    The Washington Post has obtained a March 2017 receipt for a two-night stay at Mar-a-Lago. Here’s why it matters. (Bastien Inzaurralde/The Washington Post) The bedroom suites at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, available only to members and their guests, feature hand-painted Moorish ceilings, antique Spanish-tiled mosaics and sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean. On a weekend in early March, during one of seven trips by Trump and his White House entourage to the posh Palm Beach property..
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  • Judge rules Justice Department can't keep grant money from ...

    Judge rules Justice Department can't keep grant money from ...
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel hailed a federal judge's decision on Sept. 15 barring the Justice Department from denying public-safety grants to sanctuary cities. (Reuters) A federal judge on Friday blocked the Justice Department from withholding grant funds from places that do not provide immigration authorities access to local jails or give advance notice when suspected illegal immigrants are to be released — dealing a major blow to the Trump administration’s vowed crackdown on sanctuary c..
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  • The Cassini spacecraft crashed into Saturn, ending a successful 20 ...

    The Cassini spacecraft crashed into Saturn, ending a successful 20 ...
    NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its final approach to Saturn on Sept. 15 before it plunged into the planet's atmosphere. (Reuters) PASADENA, Calif. — NASA scientists just received their last message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning. Those final bits of data signal the end of one of the most successful planetary science missions in history. “The signal from the spacecraft is gone and within the next 45 seconds so will be the spacecraft,” program ma..
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  • Two Equifax executives will retire following massive data breach

    Two Equifax executives will retire following massive data breach
    A monitor displays Equifax Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News) A week after Equifax disclosed it suffered a massive data breach that may have compromised sensitive information belonging to 143 million people, the credit reporting agency's chief information officer, David Webb, and chief security officer, Susan Mauldin, are retiring, effective immediately, the company said in a statement Friday evening. The sudden departures come..
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  • Washington Nationals' lineup for the series opener with the Los ...

    Washington Nationals' lineup for the series opener with the Los ...
    Washington and Los Angeles start a three-game set in the nation's capital after the Nationals took 2 of 3 in Dodger Stadium earlier this season. by Patrick ...
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  • Vatican diplomat to Washington recalled because of child-porn ...

    Vatican diplomat to Washington recalled because of child-porn ...
    The Vatican Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue NW in the District. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) U.S. officials found evidence implicating a Vatican diplomat in a child-pornography case, the Vatican said Friday, leading officials in Rome to recall the priest to the Holy See. The case drew attention again to Pope Francis’s efforts to strengthen anti-abuse systems in the church and to debate about how well they’re working. The Vatican said in a morning news release that the State Department ..
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  • Fla. nursing home where eight died after Irma defends actions, says ...

    Fla. nursing home where eight died after Irma defends actions, says ...
    The night before Hurricane Irma began roaring over Florida, staffers at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills locked the doors, shuttered the windows and turned the temperature down to about 67 degrees — a buffer, administrators thought, to keep the building cool in case the power went out. It wouldn’t last long. About 3 p.m. on Sunday, the lights flickered, nursing-home executives say. The power stayed on, but a janitor soon noticed a problem: The massive chiller used to serve the 152-b..
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  • Hill Republicans' influence ebbs, and they're not sure what to do ...

    Hill Republicans' influence ebbs, and they're not sure what to do ...
    President Trump’s latest tendency to turn to Democrats to hash out major legislative deals has left Republican leaders facing a new reality as a daunting fall agenda looms: They are at their lowest moment of influence this year. Despite their control of both chambers and with a GOP partner in the White House, congressional Republicans are laboring, sometimes awkwardly, to project leverage over efforts to rewrite the nation’s tax laws and craft a bill to decide the fate of hundreds of thousands..
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