http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=66&catid=364News Feed for - Top-US-storieshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235549164&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T22:34:00A new federal report says inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards. The U.S. Department of Justice's ABC Newshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235557073&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T00:53:00_ ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a Chicago Tribunehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235548168&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T22:19:00newspaper Speaking in Syria with the newspaper Clarin, Assad said he was doubtful that mediation the United States and Russia have proposed could settle a deadly conflict that has convulsed the country Reutershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235558290&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T01:04:00New York (CNN) -- Police are investigating the slaying of a 32-year-old man in the Greenwich Village neighborhood early Saturday as a hate crime because the gunman made multiple anti-gay comments, they CNNhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235564271&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T02:48:00SANTA CLARITA, Calif. A wildfire burning in the hills along Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles has been fully contained. Los Angeles County fire officials said the 712-acre blaze was fully contained late Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235563551&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T02:35:00Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives NBCNews.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235561872&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T02:04:00Americans and Iranians share same sporting stage, Iranian team mysteriously leaves early.ABC Newshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235557856&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T00:48:00Police identified Saturday the man allegedly involved in a home robbery and the death of a New York college student early Friday morning. Nassau County police said Dalton Smith, 30, of Hempstead tried NBCNews.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235555613&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T00:10:00Yes, I'll admit it. This is yet another column on Tuesday's election in Los Angeles, the race half the city doesn't care about and the other half hasn't heard about, but DO NOT turn the page. OK, I'll Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235533032&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T00:48:00NEW YORK Police say the gunman who killed a gay man on a Manhattan street in an apparent hate crime has a previous arrest for attempted murder. New York City police say 33-year-old Elliot Morales used Washington Posthttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235554209&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T23:40:00Gunmen killed a senior female politician from a reformist party in Pakistan on Saturday night, the latest violent incident in a bloody election campaign and one that set off a war of words between two Reutershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235545130&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T22:06:0010:55pm BST By VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks Reuters UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235556733&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T02:25:00EDT The Washington Post The night started with one tiny click near the bedroom window. Then came another, and another, until a great oak beside Lori Milani's South Arlington apartment was alive with an AllVoiceshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235473279&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T01:29:00CARACAS: Venezuela on Friday released an opposition activist who had been jailed on accusations of inciting violence in the wake of President Nicolas Maduros narrow election victory in April. Retired Daily Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235470254&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T01:29:00ALEXANDRIA: One person died and dozens were wounded during clashes between Muslims and Christians late Friday night outside a Coptic church in Egypt's second city, state newspaper al-Ahram reported, in Daily Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235547967&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T22:07:00Alaskas remote Pavlof Volcano has been shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume is thinning and is no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby. Geologist Chris Waythomas Boston Globehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235313017&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T00:35:00He rules out unilateral military action even if chemical weapons use is proved. 0 WASHINGTON - President Obama on Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if proof emerges that NW32.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235442718&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-19T01:10:00South China Morning Post 2013-05-19: Tunisia's government barred Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia from staging a weekend rally in the central city of Kairouan, saying the organisation, which openly supports World News Networkhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235523717&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T21:14:00Nigerian troops patrolling in the streets of the remote northeast town of Baga, Borno State, in this April 30 file photo. (AFP) | | A A AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Last Update 18 May 2013 11:45 pm KANO, Arab Newshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235529008&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T23:05:00President Francois Hollande's Socialist government imposed the tax surcharge last year, shortly after taking office, to offset the impact of a rebate scheme created by its conservative predecessor to NewsRT.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235550167&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T22:43:00(CNN) -- A 30-year-old man wanted for jumping parole was the alleged home invader killed in a New York shootout with police that also left a college student dead, police said Saturday. Dalton Smith of CNNhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235469831&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T22:53:00Joint chiefs chairman says the missiles, as well as Russia's buildup of warships in the region, will 'embolden' President Bashar Assad. WASHINGTON The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's Chicago Tribunehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235542843&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T20:44:00Editor's note: Paul Butler is a law professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of "Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice." (CNN) -- "My brothers." That is how President Obama should begin CNNhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235542401&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T20:36:00(05-18) 11:04 PDT NEWARK -- A man was being treated for a life-threatening gunshot wound Saturday after exchanging fire with Newark Police Department officers the night before during a standoff. At 5:37 San Francisco Chroniclehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=235540586&Channel_ID=66&Category_ID=3642013-05-18T19:48:00NASHVILLE, Tenn. First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination Washington Post