War crimes tribunal sought against Islamic State detainees

War crimes investigators collecting evidence of the Islamic State group's elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing to bring current detainees before an international tribunal. Two years after the IS onslaught in northern Iraq, the investigators, as well as U.S. diplomats, say the Obama administration has done little to pursue prosecution of the crimes that Secretary of State John Kerry has called genocide.

UN adopts US-drafted plea for stalled nuclear test treaty amid North Korean threat

The UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted resolution calling on all states to end nuclear weapons testing, a move that came over the opposition of some Republican lawmakers in Washington. The proposal passed the Security Council on Friday with 14 votes in favour and Egypt abstaining.

The Clinton aide turned Trump stand-in

Philippe Reines, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton and one of the most astute observers of her personal and political vulnerabilities, is playing Donald Trump in her mock debate sessions, according to people familiar with Reines' involvement. Reines, who was Clinton's chief defender, enforcer and gatekeeper during most of her years in the Senate and as secretary of state, is a deft practitioner of the combative, no-holds-barred politics that Trump favors.

Lawmakers vow to override Obama’s veto of Sept. 11 bill

22, 2016, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue t... Police searched Saturday for a gunman authorities said opened fire in the makeup department of a Macy's store at a mall north of Seattle, killing four females, before fleeing toward an interstate on foot.

Obama power plant rules face key test in U.S. court

The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate change strategy, federal rules curbing greenhouse gas emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants, faces a key test on Tuesday when opponents try to convince a U.S. appeals court to throw out the regulations. Twenty-seven states led by coal-producer West Virginia and industry groups are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan rules before 10 judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Obama vetoes 9/11 bill; possible override by Congress looms new

President Barack Obama nixed a bill Friday that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia, arguing it undermined national security and setting up the possibility that Congress might override his veto for the first time of his presidency. The bill had sailed through both chambers of Congress with bipartisan support, clearing the final hurdle just days before the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Obama: African-American museum tells ‘story of all of us’

President Barack Obama on Friday celebrated the pending opening of the Smithsonian's new African-American museum and said the institution, decades in the making, is a powerful place because it tells "the story of all of us," not just the famous. Obama also said he hoped the museum would help people bridge divides that were re-exposed by the latest fatal, police-involved shootings of black men.

Donald Trump is headed for a win, says professor who always gets it right

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Clinton Campaign: Hillary Would Sign 9/11 Bill if she Were President

Breaking with President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton's campaign on Friday said she would sign the controversial bill allowing families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts, The Hill reported . "Clinton continues to support the efforts by Sen. [Chuck] Schumer [D-N.Y.] and his colleagues in congress to secure the ability of 9/11 families and other victims of terror to hold accountable those responsible," spokesman Jesse Lehrich said Friday, according to Yahoo News.

Trump’s Director of African-American Outreach Says Detractors…

Omarosa Manigault, the director of African-American outreach for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, told PBS' "Frontline" that critics of the Manhattan billionaire will have to "bow down" to him when he is president. In a clip from "The Choice 2016," an upcoming "Frontline" special, Manigault, a former contestant on Trump's NBC show "The Apprentice," discussed attending the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner with Trump and watching President Barack Obama poke fun at the real-estate magnate over his charge that the president was not born in the United States.

President Obama says Donald Trump should visit new African-American museum

President Barack Obama scolded Donald Trump for his bleak description of the African-American community as recent police shootings of black men - and the violent protests that followed them - inject sensitive questions about race into the presidential contest. America's first black president took issue with the Republican nominee's suggestion this week that “African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape than they've ever been in before, ever, ever, ever.” “I think even most 8-year-olds would tell you that whole slavery thing wasn't very good for black people.

Trump’s appeal to black America is ludicrous – but that…

Trump's choice of Don King as a black surrogate is insulting -- and we don't need him to tell us Obama is imperfect I wonder what Donald Trump is smoking? The idea that he, the onetime slumlord who refused to rent properties to black people, the ultimate justifier of police shootings and the spearhead of the most racist political movement in my lifetime, is now presenting himself as the solution to the problems that exist within the African-American community is as stupid as using Don King as a Negro surrogate - oh wait, he did that too. No black person in their right mind would ever listen to Don King.

Ohio county chair for Trump campaign resigns after Obama remarks

An Ohio county chair for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump resigned and apologized Thursday after remarks she made in an interview about President Barack Obama. Kathy Miller, who was coordinating Trump's campaign in the crucial Mahoning County, told The Guardian on Wednesday there was no racism in the U.S. until Obama became president.