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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has vetoed legislation to repeal his signature health care law. It's one of many repeal measures pushed by Republican lawmakers since 2010, when Obama signed the health care program into law. But it's the first bill to clear both houses of Congress and make it to Obama's desk. The legislation would also cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Republicans say they met two goals by passing the bill: keeping a promise to voters in an election year, and showing their ability to repeal the law if a Republican wins the presidency.
HOUSTON (AP) — A judge has ordered an Iraqi-born Palestinian living in Texas to be held without bond as he faces charges of trying to provide support to the Islamic State group. Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan appeared today before a federal magistrate in Houston. The refugee was indicted Wednesday on three counts of trying to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Prosecutors want bond denied.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee looking into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya is interviewing former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta as the investigation shifts its focus from the State Department to the Defense Department and CIA. The interview with Panetta follows a four-hour, closed-door session this week with former CIA Director David Petraeus. Panetta has not testified before the Benghazi panel until now. But he told Congress in 2013 that time, distance and the lack of an adequate warning prevented a more immediate response to the September 2012 attacks that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department says a sergeant has been stripped of her gun and badge and charged internally in the July 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner. Sgt. Kizzy Adonis was one of the supervising officers at the scene of Garner's death on Staten Island during an arrest on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. Officials say she's charged with failure to supervise. Officer Daniel Pantaleo applied the chokehold. He remains on modified duty but has yet to face departmental charges. A federal probe is continuing.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official says pop star Justin Bieber and his entourage were asked to leave the Mayan archaeological site of Tulum (too-LOOM') after he apparently tried to climb onto the ruins. Bieber was visiting the seaside ruins yesterday when the incident occurred. Visitors can climb some pre-Hispanic pyramids in Mexico, but officials rope off or place "no entry" signs on some ruins that are considered vulnerable or unstable.
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