U.S. judge questions special counsel's powers in Manafort case

By Sarah N. Lynch ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday sharply criticized Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal case in Virginia against President Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and openly questioned whether Mueller exceeded his prosecutorial powers by bringing it. "I don't see what relationship this indictment has with anything the special counsel is authorized to investigate," U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III in the Eastern District of Virginia said. At a tense hearing at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, the judge said Mueller should not have "unfettered power" in his Russia probe and that the charges against Manafort did not arise from the investigation into Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.

Lava from volcano flows into Hawaiian neighborhood

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is releasing red lava into a residential subdivision, prompting the county to order mandatory evacuations. Hawaii County spokeswoman Janet Snyder said Thursday red lava emerged on Mohala Street in the Leilani Estates subdivision. The county is calling for all residents in the subdivision to evacuate.

Trump Describes Paris Terror Attack: 'Boom... Boom... Boom'

President Donald Trump did his best to explain why the U.S. needs lax gun

Driver fires shots at Cincinnati police in College Hill

Bullets flew in the direction of two Cincinnati police officers shortly after midnight Thursday. The shots were fired from a car as it pulled up onto a residential side street in College Hill. The officers were checking a report of shots fired into a home when, police said, someone started firing at them from a vehicle as they stood at a front porch along East Way at Groesbeck Road.The officers took cover and returned fire.

5.0-magnitude earthquake rattles Hawaii's Big Island

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports a 5.0-magnitude earthquake has struck Hawaii's Big Island.

Police called because Native Americans brothers were being ‘too quiet’

A parent called campus police on two Native American teenagers who were on a university tour because she thought they were threatening. Lloyd Skanahwati Gray, 17, and Thomas Kanewakeron Gray, 19, are brothers from Santa Cruz, New Mexico, who had driven to Fort Collins, Colorado, to go on a tour of Colorado State University.Their family are members of the Mohawk tribe. The tour director was not even aware that the police had been called on the young men who told their mother Lorraine Kahneratokwas Gray that they were too shy to speak up during the portion of the tour when prospective students introduced themselves.

Use of genealogy site to trace Golden State Killer raises concerns

The arrest of a suspected serial killer and notorious rapist in California using DNA and a public genealogy website has been hailed as a triumph of ingenuity by law enforcement. "What if you become uninsurable because of a genetic test?" said Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Could they also be denied health insurance because of a genetic predisposition to some malady?