National News

• Venezuela to shrink U.S. Embassy staff, require tourist visas March 1, 2015
  President Nicolas Maduro says “gringo” meddling forced him to adopt new requirements.
• Nemtsov a possible 'sacrificial victim,' investigators say March 1, 2015
  Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader and sharp critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down Saturday near the Kremlin, officials said. Nemtsov was killed just a day before a protest planned against Putin's rule.
• Investigators search for what triggered Missouri rampage March 1, 2015
  By Kevin Murphy and Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - What led Joseph Aldridge to gun down seven people in a southern Missouri hamlet remained uncertain on Saturday, though authorities speculated that the death of the gunman's mother from cancer could have triggered the rampage. Aldridge, 36, embarked on a shooting spree late on […]
• Rand Paul wins CPAC presidential straw poll March 1, 2015
  The Kentucky senator is voted the top GOP candidate for the third consecutive year.
• Chicago protesters demand probe of what they call police 'black site' March 1, 2015
  British newspaper The Guardian said in a report earlier this week the Chicago Police Department holds suspects and witnesses for long periods of time at a former warehouse called Homan Square, without giving them access to attorneys or phone calls to family and without recording their detention. The piece was the subject of intense debate […]
• Giant, cross-border smuggling tunnel found under Arizona house February 28, 2015
  Police pulled over a U-Haul carrying 4,700 pounds of marijuana this week. When they traced the truck’s route to a house on the border, they discovered the longest drug-smuggling tunnel the region has ever seen.
• Storm leads to 1,000 canceled flights in Texas as more snow heads east February 28, 2015
  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Stormy weather coated parts of Texas and Oklahoma with ice on Saturday, canceling nearly 1,000 flights at the Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport, while more snow headed toward the already winter-weary Midwest and Northeast. Meteorologists said a storm moving east across the plains will bring a wide swath of 1-3 […]
• GOP leaders are struggling to show they really are in charge February 28, 2015
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months into full Republican control of Congress, GOP leaders are struggling to demonstrate they really are in charge.
• Obama, Netanyahu on collision course 6 years in the making February 28, 2015
  For six years, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been on a collision course over how to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions, a high-stakes endeavor both men see as a centerpiece of their legacies.
• Dems call GOP Homeland Security strategy a political blunder February 28, 2015
  Democrats are losing some skirmishes over the Department of Homeland Security, but many feel they are winning a political war that will haunt Republicans in 2016 and beyond.