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 A group of editors from Charlie Hebdo defended themselves against attacks aimed at their publication Tuesday. The paper is set to receive the PEN American Center's Freedom of Expression Courage Award tonight. This has sparked backlash from some of the PEN members who contend that the publication is frequently racist in its cartoon depictions of Muslims. Hebdo's Editor-in-Chief Gerard Biard said the publication fights power, not religion exclusively. "Fighting against racism, fighting against all discriminations...." Biard said. "And we always fight the right wing...even more than religions." Monday's attack at a Draw Muhammad event in Texas led some to question the difference between Pamela Geller's use of free speech and that of Hebdo's editors, especially in regards to portrayals of Muslims. Biard said Geller "wakes every morning and thinks, 'How can I defy these people?'" whereas he thinks: "Where's my coffee?" |
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 Floyd Mayweather texted ESPN's Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday saying he'd be willing to fight Manny Pacquiao again once the Filipino boxer recovers from shoulder surgery. "I will fight him in a year after his surgery." Pacquiao will receive treatment for a tear in his rotator cuff, which he suffered before the recent multimillion-dollar bout. Pacquiao checked "no" on a boxing commission questionnaire asking him about being injured just before the weigh-in before Saturday night's fight. Pacquaio could be fined or suspended for reporting inaccurate information about his status. |
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 After ISIS claimed responsiblity for the failed attack on a Draw Muhammad event in Garland, Texas, the White House said the incident is "still under investigation" and that it is "too early" to determine whether the group was responsible. In a broadcast Tuesday, ISIS said two "soldiers" were behind the attack and that more are forthcoming. "We say to the defenders of the cross, the U.S., that future attacks are going to be harsher and worse," the group said. "The Islamic State soldiers will inflict harm on you with the grace of God. The future is just around the corner." |
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 Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee launched his 2016 presidential bid Tuesday morning from his home state. An ordained Southern Baptist minister, the socially conservative Huckabee swept the Iowa Republican caucus in 2008 before losing the nomination. "I hear some people say we're going to have to have someone who knows how to fight," Huckabee told supporters last month. "I'll tell you what: If you battled the political machine that I battled, you know how to fight." |
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 The Seattle Seahawks only interviewed their draft pick during their investigation of whether he beat his ex-girlfriend, despite the presence of several other eyewitnesses in the case. Lis Babson and Kristie Cole say they got a glimpse of a limp woman in Frank Clark's hotel room in November after they heard loud noises next door and banged on the door until he opened it. "She looked unconscious,'' Cole said. "She looked like she was knocked out, and then she started to move slowly." The women said Clark then slammed the door shut. Their statements corroborate a police report, but the Seahawks still drafted Clark as their 63rd pick, saying that an extensive investigation found the ex and eyewitnesses' claims to be unfounded. Clark was charged with two first-degree misdemeanors for domestic violence and assault, but then pleaded guilty in a deal to a lesser charge and paid only a $250 fine. |
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 Another revelation from the archive of Edward Snowden's NSA documents indicates that the agency now has the capability to recognize content in phone calls and create rough transcripts for storage and searching. These documents, secured by The Intercept, show NSA analysts celebrating the software called Google for Voice almost a decade ago. Perfect transcription of phone calls has been called the "holy grail" in the agency, elusive, maybe impossible, but incredibly valuable. But the software can already extract content from phone calls and flag conversations of interest. |
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| A former FBI agent who tried to barge into the CIA's Virginia headquarters has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after a "combative" court appearance Friday. Tunisia Davis, who worked for the bureau from 2004 to 2010, drove past one security officer at the CIA before another officer physically blocked her path by standing in front of her car. The officers also say she tried to reach for one of their firearms, which Davis denies, and threatened to bomb the facility. Earlier that day, she tried to do something similar at the National Security Agency, allegedly telling police that "she wanted to know what they would do if she showed up." |
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 Hillary Clinton will debut her immigration-reform plan in Nevada on Tuesday and it is said to include a "full and equal" path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Clinton is expected to say "that we cannot settle for proposals that provide hard-working people with merely a second-class status," according to an aide, and will cast immigration reform as a family issue. Her plan will advocate moving "millions of hard-working people out of the shadows and into the formal economy so they can pay taxes and contribute to our nation's prosperity." A more detailed rollout of specific policy positions is expected later this year. |
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| A 79-year-old Ohio man is in custody after spending 56 years on the lam. Frank Freshwaters was sentenced to one to 20 years for voluntary manslaughter following a car crash in 1959, but the sentence was reduced to five years' probation. He quickly violated his parole and had the original sentence imposed, and then escaped after a transfer to another prison facility. Freshwaters, a.k.a. William Harold Cox, was arrested in 1975 in West Virginia, but the state's governor refused to extradite him to Ohio. He finally admitted his identity during an arrest in Melbourne, Florida, and will now be sent back to Ohio. He was apprehended by very excited U.S. Marshals. "This is only the start of our Cold Case Unit," said U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott. "We will continue to work on catching the uncatchable!" |
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 John Kerry became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Somalia, when he landed early Tuesday in the war-torn nation on the Horn of Africa. Kerry landed in Mogadishu and was scheduled to remain in the heavily fortified airport while meeting with the country's leaders, President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmake. "I think it will send a strong signal to [terror group al} Shabaab that we are not turning our backs on the Somali people and that we will continue to engage with Somalia until we bring Shabaab's terror to an end," said a State Department official. |
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