[h=5][/h] Posted: Friday, October 25, 2013, 12:16 AM
MILLINGTON, Tenn. - A member of the National Guard opened fire at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed, officials said yesterday. Millington Police Chief Rita Stanback said the shooter was apprehended yesterday by other National Guard members, and that he did not have the small handgun used in the shooting in his possession by the time officers arrived. Stanback said two National Guard members were shot, one in the foot and one in the leg.
The two shot were taken to a hospital. Stanback said at a news conference that their conditions were not immediately known, though the Navy said on its official Twitter account that neither had life-threatening injuries.
The shooter was a recruiter who had been relieved of duty, said a law enforcement official briefed on the developments. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
[h=4]Site builders: Blame woes on lack of testing[/h]
WASHINGTON - Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration's health-insurance marketplace said yesterday the site's crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing and changes that government officials made just before going live. Who's to blame? The first congressional hearing into what went wrong dug into issues of website architecture and testing protocols - but also re-stoked the partisan battle over President Obama's signature expansion of health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. Republicans who've been trying to kill the program the past three years sounded outraged that it is being poorly carried out, while Democrats jeered them as political hypocrites.
What was clear after more than four hours of testimony was that the contractors had only partial answers, and only the Obama administration can eventually put the entire picture together to explain the botched rollout.
[h=4]European leaders fume over alleged U.S. spying[/h] BRUSSELS - European leaders united in anger yesterday as they attended a summit overshadowed by reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies - allegations German Chancellor Angela Merkel said had shattered trust in the Obama administration and undermined the crucial trans-Atlantic relationship. The latest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped Merkel's own cellphone brought denunciations from the French and German governments.
Merkel's unusually stern remarks as she arrived at the European Union gathering indicated she wasn't placated by a phone conversation she had Wednesday with President Obama, or his personal assurances that the U.S. is not listening in on her calls now.
[h=4]Obama urges GOP to OK immigration reform[/h] WASHINGTON - President Obama made a plea for Republican cooperation on immigration yesterday, seeking common ground by year's end in the aftermath of the divisive partial government shutdown. Yet prospects for success this year remain a long shot, even as a handful of House GOP lawmakers push for more limited measures.
Obama's renewed focus on immigration comes nearly four months since a bipartisan majority in the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill that would tighten border security and provide a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
The Senate measure has stalled in the House, where most Republicans reject a comprehensive approach and many question offering citizenship to people who broke U.S. immigration laws to be in this country. But White House officials say they believe that the partial government shutdown may have created an opportunity for collaboration with Republicans seeking to repair their image.
[h=4]Portuguese authorities re-open search for girl[/h] LISBON, Portugal - More than six years after British girl Madeleine McCann, 3, vanished from her bedroom during a family vacation in Portugal and five years after Portuguese police gave up trying to find her, authorities reopened the case yesterday, citing new evidence.
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, had long campaigned from their home in central England for the Portuguese investigation to resume. In a statement, they said they were "very pleased" at the development.
- Daily News wire services
MILLINGTON, Tenn. - A member of the National Guard opened fire at an armory outside a U.S. Navy base in Tennessee, wounding two soldiers before being subdued and disarmed, officials said yesterday. Millington Police Chief Rita Stanback said the shooter was apprehended yesterday by other National Guard members, and that he did not have the small handgun used in the shooting in his possession by the time officers arrived. Stanback said two National Guard members were shot, one in the foot and one in the leg.
The two shot were taken to a hospital. Stanback said at a news conference that their conditions were not immediately known, though the Navy said on its official Twitter account that neither had life-threatening injuries.
The shooter was a recruiter who had been relieved of duty, said a law enforcement official briefed on the developments. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
[h=4]Site builders: Blame woes on lack of testing[/h]
WASHINGTON - Contractors who built the web portal for the Obama administration's health-insurance marketplace said yesterday the site's crippling problems trace back to insufficient testing and changes that government officials made just before going live. Who's to blame? The first congressional hearing into what went wrong dug into issues of website architecture and testing protocols - but also re-stoked the partisan battle over President Obama's signature expansion of health coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. Republicans who've been trying to kill the program the past three years sounded outraged that it is being poorly carried out, while Democrats jeered them as political hypocrites.
What was clear after more than four hours of testimony was that the contractors had only partial answers, and only the Obama administration can eventually put the entire picture together to explain the botched rollout.
[h=4]European leaders fume over alleged U.S. spying[/h] BRUSSELS - European leaders united in anger yesterday as they attended a summit overshadowed by reports of widespread U.S. spying on its allies - allegations German Chancellor Angela Merkel said had shattered trust in the Obama administration and undermined the crucial trans-Atlantic relationship. The latest revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped Merkel's own cellphone brought denunciations from the French and German governments.
Merkel's unusually stern remarks as she arrived at the European Union gathering indicated she wasn't placated by a phone conversation she had Wednesday with President Obama, or his personal assurances that the U.S. is not listening in on her calls now.
[h=4]Obama urges GOP to OK immigration reform[/h] WASHINGTON - President Obama made a plea for Republican cooperation on immigration yesterday, seeking common ground by year's end in the aftermath of the divisive partial government shutdown. Yet prospects for success this year remain a long shot, even as a handful of House GOP lawmakers push for more limited measures.
Obama's renewed focus on immigration comes nearly four months since a bipartisan majority in the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill that would tighten border security and provide a path to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
The Senate measure has stalled in the House, where most Republicans reject a comprehensive approach and many question offering citizenship to people who broke U.S. immigration laws to be in this country. But White House officials say they believe that the partial government shutdown may have created an opportunity for collaboration with Republicans seeking to repair their image.
[h=4]Portuguese authorities re-open search for girl[/h] LISBON, Portugal - More than six years after British girl Madeleine McCann, 3, vanished from her bedroom during a family vacation in Portugal and five years after Portuguese police gave up trying to find her, authorities reopened the case yesterday, citing new evidence.
Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, had long campaigned from their home in central England for the Portuguese investigation to resume. In a statement, they said they were "very pleased" at the development.
- Daily News wire services