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Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford dead at 84
Pro Football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, who also had a prominent broadcasting career, has died. Gifford was the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1956 when he led the New York Giants to a league championship. A versatile star on both offense and defense in an era when NFL players were starting to specialize, Gifford went on to a successful second career as a broadcaster on Monday Night Football. Gifford died a week shy of his 85th birthday.
Trump refuses to apologize for Kelly comments
An unapologetic Donald Trump said Sunday he did not cross any lines with his criticism of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, and he plans to carry on an insurgent presidential campaign that is generating grave concern about Republican leaders. "I said nothing wrong whatsoever," Trump said on CNN's State of the Union, one of a string of Sunday show interviews after another flap over a strident comment by the billionaire who leads most Republican polls. Many of Trump's GOP opponents are calling on him to apologize for what they called an offensive attack on Kelly that suggested menstruation. In a CNN interview Friday night, Trump criticized Kelly's aggressive questioning in last week's debate by saying, "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever."
Ferguson marks first anniversary of Michael Brown's death
Family members, friends, neighbors and activists gathered Sunday at the spot where Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer to mark the first anniversary of the shooting that rocked the nation and shined a spotlight on race relations in America. Brown, 18, was unarmed when Wilson pulled up in a cruiser and told Brown and a friend not to walk in the street. An argument ensued, spilling into a physical confrontation. Wilson said Brown attempted to take Wilson's gun. Moments later Brown was fatally shot. A grand jury and the Justice Department cleared Wilson of wrongdoing. But the Justice Department also issued a scathing, 102-page report, made public in March, that details how racial biases permeated the city's police and justice system. The revelations prompted the resignations of the city's police chief and a local judge.
Calls to abolish nukes on 70th anniversary of Nagasaki bombing
The city of Nagasaki marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing Sunday with calls to abolish nuclear weapons and halt the Japanese government's push to loosen restrictions on what its military can do. With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the audience, a representative of Nagasaki bomb survivors told an annual ceremony that security legislation introduced by Abe's government goes against the wishes of the survivors and "will lead to war." "We cannot accept this," 86-year-old Sumiteru Taniguchi said after describing in graphic detail his traumatic injuries and how others died in the Aug. 9, 1945, attack on Nagasaki.
8 people found dead in home after standoff
A suspect was taken into custody after five children and three adults were found dead at a Houston-area home, authorities said Sunday. Deputies who were called to perform a welfare check Saturday evening got no response at the door to the home when they arrived. Officers then received more information that indicated a man in the home was wanted on a warrant for aggravated assault on a family member. After more than an hour, the man came outside and surrendered without further incident. It's not yet clear what the relationship was between the suspect and the victims, and a motive for the crime has not been determined.
New arrests as Israel cracks down on Jewish extremists
Israel intensified its crackdown on Jewish extremists Sunday, jailing two high-profile radicals for six months without charge and arresting additional suspects in West Bank settlement outposts, Israeli security authorities said. The crackdown comes after a deadly July 31 firebomb attack on a Palestinian home in the West Bank that killed an 18-month-old boy and severely wounded his parents and brother. The boy's father died of his wounds Saturday.
Police officer kills Texas teen
Shortly before a police-officer-in-training fired on a college football player who drove his SUV through a car dealership's glass doors, the teen wandered around the lot trying to open locked doors and kicking out one vehicle's windshield, according to surveillance video made available for review Saturday. Christian Taylor, 19, of Arlington, Texas, died early Friday at Classic Buick GMC dealership when Officer Brad Miller, 49, hired in September and in the middle of 16 weeks of supervised field training, fired his weapon four times, Arlington police Chief Will Johnson said. The other officer with Miller used his Taser but not his gun. The officers had told Taylor to surrender and lie down on the ground, but he refused, the chief said. They saw him trying to escape the showroom and pursued him.
Gordon lawyer: Bobbi K. suit 'slanderous'
An amended lawsuit filed by the late Bobbi Kristina Brown's conservator alleges that Nick Gordon gave Brown a "toxic cocktail" and then put her face down in a tub of cold water. The original suit was filed on June 24. It accused Gordon of assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and transferring money from her account into his own without authorization. Brown, the 22-year-old daughter of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, died July 26 — months after being found unresponsive in a tub. A spokeswoman for Gordon's new defense lawyer told Paste BN the lawsuit was "slanderous and meritless."
