07/16/13 The Raw USA News Feed

Comprehensive Real-Time News Feed for US News.

• The Supreme Court's woman problem _{2013-07-16, 08:46 am}
  It didn't last long, but for a brief moment at the end of the Supreme Court's history-making term last month, there was a brief examination of the role of gender in the court.
• Cannot disclose what Headley told about Ishrat Jahan to the FBI: Home Minister _{2013-07-16, 08:46 am}
  There is an agreement between the United States' based Federal Bureau of Investigation and India's police authorities as such details regarding statement given to the FBI by the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack suspect David Headley cannot be disclosed, home minister, Sushilkumar Shinde said at an event organised by the industry body ASSOCHAM.
• George Zimmerman trial raises race concerns in U.S. _{2013-07-16, 08:45 am}
  FLORIDA The George Zimmerman murder trial ignited fierce debates about the state of race in the United States long before the not guilty verdict came down.
• Play of the Day: Snowden's New Job at Terminal C _{2013-07-16, 08:45 am}
  The Daily Show and Colbert Report both came back from two-week hiatus Monday night to comment on the news.
• Ariz. Cops Ordered to Return Medical Marijuana to Patients _{2013-07-16, 08:45 am}
  Arizona authorities must return medical marijuana they seize from authorized patients, according to a decision from the Arizona Supreme Court.
• Treasury admits 'improper' examination of tax records _{2013-07-16, 08:44 am}
  The Treasury Department has admitted for the first time that confidential tax records of several political candidates and campaign donors were improperly scrutinized by government officials, but the Justice Department has declined to prosecute any of the cases.
• Gillibrand gets GOP support for plan involving military sexual assaults _{2013-07-16, 08:43 am}
  Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Charles Grassley of Iowa are supporting a proposal by Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York to change the way the military handles sexual assault cases.
• Abbreviated pundit roundup: Truth, justice and the American way _{2013-07-16, 08:43 am}
  Those three concepts don't always work together. Today's opinion pieces and editorials are not surprisingly still focused on the George Zimmerman verdict.
• John Oliver BLASTS Zimmerman verdict _{2013-07-16, 08:43 am}
  Last night, the Daily Show returned after a 2-week hiatus with John Oliver just ripping into the George Zimmerman verdict.
• Reason Magazine's "Enemies of Freedom": Elizabeth Warren, Naomi Klein, Sean Penn_{2013-07-16, 08:43 am}
  To celebrate their 45th anniversary, Reason Magazine has published a list of what they call "45 Enemies of Freedom."
• Vietnam vets get long-overdue welcome _{2013-07-16, 08:43 am}
  Much of what he experienced during his 15 months in war-ravaged Vietnam, Gil Calac would prefer to forget.
• lighthouse & ice - a forgotten spring set _{2013-07-16, 08:43 am}
  A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for "Barack Obama," is this a diary they'd be trying to find? Use a person's full name, without any title.
• Zimmerman Protesters Raid L.A. Store, Stop Freeway _{2013-07-16, 08:42 am}
  Protesters ran through Los Angeles streets Monday night, breaking windows, attacking people on sidewalks and at one point raiding a Wal-Mart store, while others blocked a major freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area in the third night of demonstrations in California over George Zimmerman's Florida acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
• Radio is Live but Late, at 9:15 am Et _{2013-07-16, 08:42 am}
  We'll have to talk filibuster and nuclear option, most likely. But we'll also have to catch up on Snowden & the NSA, the Brookings gun safety essay, etc.
• Corn Rises on Signs of Worsening U.S. Crop Conditions After Heat _{2013-07-16, 08:42 am}
  Corn rose the most in a week in Chicago as crop conditions deteriorated in the U.S. after warm weather, while plants are maturing at a slower-than-average pace.
• Recent Kansas editorials _{2013-07-16, 08:41 am}
  The Garden City USD 457 administration recently presented the Board of Education with a proposed policy that would prohibit district employees with concealed-carry permits from bringing guns to school or school activities.
• Analyst says unbundling would lead to lost cable revenue _{2013-07-16, 08:41 am}
  ESPN would cost vastly more for sports fans, about $30 a month, if it was unbundled from the pay-TV package and sold separately only to those who wanted to watch it.
• 5 stories to follow: July 16 _{2013-07-16, 08:41 am}
  Jacqueline Coles and Karmella Sams react during an NAACP voter rally in Philly opposing Pennsylvania's voter-ID law.
• Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday _{2013-07-16, 08:41 am}
  One of Malden's own will take his oath of office to become the commonwealth's newest U.S. Senator Tuesday morning.
• GOP Momentum Builds for Tax Code Rewrite _{2013-07-16, 08:36 am}
  The top Republican tax writer in Congress is being pulled toward a more extensive rewrite of the U.S. code, with more than half of his party's members in the House backing proposals to rip up the rules.