New road for police after Ferguson

August 10, 2015 - Daily News Briefing

Police departments around the country are instituting reforms after a series of police shootings.

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Israel intensified its crackdown on Jewish extremists Sunday, imprisoning two high-profile ultranationalist Israelis for six months without charge and arresting additional suspects in West Bank settlement outposts, 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 his father and severely wounded his mother and brother. Authorities called the arson attack an act of "Jewish terrorism," and Israel's Security Cabinet approved the use of harsh measures to combat the trend.

North Korea is going back in time – by thirty minutes. Officials announced Friday that the isolated nation will create its own time zone on Aug. 15, marking the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule at the end of World War II. The time zone Pyongyang will adopt is the same one a unified Korea used prior to the Japanese colonial occupation in 1910. The establishment of "Pyongyang time" is meant to “root out the legacy of the Japanese colonial period”, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.

A typhoon that lashed Taiwan dumped heavy rain and winds on the Chinese mainland on Sunday, leaving a total of 22 people dead or missing, collapsing homes and trees and cutting power to more than a million homes. Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in China's Fujian province late Saturday night and was downgraded into a tropical storm as it moved across the region.

Donald Trump opened his mouth again and found the door closed to him Saturday at a high-profile gathering of conservative activists. His latest incendiary comment, about one of the Fox News moderators from Thursday's first Republican presidential debate, led to a scolding by some of his rivals and the party, and condemnation by organizers of the RedState Gathering. The billionaire businessman lashed out against Fox News' Megyn Kelly for her questions during the campaign's first debate. Referring to Kelly's questions, Trump told CNN in an interview late Friday, "There was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."

Haitians went to the polls to elect Parliament Sunday after a yearslong wait, but the vote was plagued with delays, disorder and occasional fistfights. The legislative elections had been postponed for nearly four years due to a political showdown between Haiti's executive and opposition, and they have been billed as a crucial test of the country's electoral system. Final results were not expected for several days and a significant amount of work will be needed to get the next Parliament up and running after it is installed. The first round of Haiti's presidential election and the second round of local elections are set for October.

A U.S. Forest Service firefighter was killed in the Lake Tahoe area after he was struck by a tree while battling a wildfire, the second firefighter killed in a California blaze since the summer wildfire season got underway, officials said. The firefighter was hit about 5:30 p.m. Saturday while working in a remote area between the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit and Eldorado National Forest, the agency said in a news release. The firefighter's name and age were not released.

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