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 Contradicting reports came out Baltimore about gunshots fired at or near a black man who was confronted by police on Monday. A Fox News crew was on the scene and claimed to observe a young black male running away from police before being shot. The police say the man had a revolver and there was the "sound of discharge." They say he has no injuries but was placed in an ambulance "out of an abundance of caution." Tear gas was used on the crowd as police cleared the scene.Fox News's Shepard Smith apologized on-air for initially misreporting the incident. |
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 Nadir Soofi, 34, has been identified by law enforcement as the second gunman who attacked the Draw Muhammad event in Garland, Texas, on Sunday. Soofi and Elton Simpson, both of whom lived in Phoenix, were armed with assault rifles and wearing body armor, police say. The men reportedly drove up to a rear entrance at the event space and exited their vehicle when they were confronted by a police officer and an unarmed security guard. The officer killed both gunmen with his pistol. One of the guards patrolling the entrance was shot in the lower leg and has since been released from the hospital. Police said the gunmen's vehicle had luggage but no explosives. |
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 The family of Tamir Rice—the 12-year-old boy shot to death by police in November—will not drop their civil suit against the city of Cleveland, despite a request from officials who say police are finishing their investigation. In a court filing, lawyers say Rice's mother, Samaria, "has since been forced to move to a homeless shelter because she could no longer live next door to the killing field of her son." Samaria called for accountability for his death at a press conference Monday. "Please protest peacefully and get justice for our son," she said. The Rice family has not yet buried Tamir because they say they are unsure if further medical examinations will be necessary. |
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 Bill Clinton says he has no regrets about his foundation taking foreign money and apparently not disclosing all of it while Hillary served as secretary of state. "There is no doubt in my mind that we have never done anything knowingly inappropriate in terms of taking money to influence any kind of American government policy," Clinton said, while in Africa doing work for the Clinton Global Initiative. Clinton said the foundation will "come as close as we can during her presidential campaign to following the rules we followed when she became secretary of state." He even raised the possibility of stepping down should Hillary win the White House. "I might if I were asked to do something in the public interest that I had an obligation to do. Or I might take less of an executive role," he said. "But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it." |
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 Jean-Marie Le Pen, the 86-year-old founder of France's right-wing National Front, has been suspended from his own party. The honorary president was asked to report to a disciplinary hearing by his daughter, party leader Marine Le Pen, after he called the Nazi gas chambers a "detail of history." Le Pen refused to go, and would not budge from his post. "[They] will have to kill me," he told AFP. Marine Le Pen has called his remarks "political suicide." The younger Le Pen is widely expected to run for president in 2017. |
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 More than 60 soldier testimonies collected by Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence about last summer's war in Gaza raise questions about Israel's efforts to protect civilians. Among other things, the soldiers say they were instructed to treat anyone looking at them as a "scout," that rules about what they were allowed to do were overly permissive, and that they were ordered to treat everyone as a "threat" and to "not spare ammo." A quarter of the soldiers interviewed had a rank higher than major in the Israeli army. More than 2,200 Palestinians were killed during the conflict. |
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 The new Star Wars universe is coming together. Details of the new film have been slow to trickle out, but two new characters have been revealed in a new Vanity Fair photospread: Adam Driver as evil commander Kylo Ren and Lupita Nyong'o, who will be playing a CGI pirate named Maz Kanata. In an interview with Vanity Fair, director J.J. Abrams also revealed that Jar Jar Binks had a close brush with death in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens, as he considered subtly placing the creature's bones in a desert scene. "Only three people will notice, but they'll love it," he said. |
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 After a unanimous-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather this weekend, Manny Pacquiao has revealed a potential reason for his sub-par performance in the hotly anticipated event: an injury to his right shoulder, obtained during training in April. Pacquiao says he didn't consider postponing the match because he thought a lidocaine injection would make the pain tolerable, but he was denied the shot due to a miscommunication among fight promoter Top Rank, the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and an anti-doping agency. "I'm disappointed," he told the Los Angeles Times, and said he may seek surgery for the injury. On forms filled out at the weigh-in, however, Pacquiao's team checked the "no" box for shoulder injuries. |
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 New York Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son surrendered to the FBI on Monday morning to face federal charges related to corruption. Skelos is the highest elected Republican in the state and is the second top lawmaker to be charged this year: Sheldon Silver, the House leader, was arrested in January for allegedly taking kickbacks from a law firm. Skelos and his son are reportedly under investigation for business dealings with an Arizona-based sewer company that was awarded a contract despite not being the lowest bidder. |
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 Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced her candidacy for president Monday, joining an ever-more-crowded field of Republican competitors. She tweeted "I am running for president" Monday morning, with a link to her new campaign website, before formally launching her campaign on ABC's Good Morning America. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson also said Sunday he is running for president in an interview with CBS News Cincinnati affiliate WKRC, and formally launched in Detroit on Monday. "I'm willing to be part of the equation, and therefore I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States of America," he said. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Marco Rubio of Florida have declared their candidacies for the Republican ticket. |
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