PARIS -- President Barack Obama landed in Paris just before midnight Sunday, and his motorcade took an unexpected route along the Seine. He rode past the Eiffel Tower, the French Assembly building and the Bastille before arriving at the Bataclan. The American president strode toward the French concert hall where terrorists wrought horror two weeks ago. Obama, French President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo walked side by side to a makeshift memorial. Each added a single rose to the collection of remembrances. The three bowed their heads for a long moment of silence. About 130 people died in the deadliest attack on French soil in more than a half-century.
MIAMI -- The Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination, Donald Trump, is not prepared to be the nation's commander in chief because he's "uninformed" on major issues facing the U.S, especially defense and foreign affairs, rival Jeb Bush said Sunday. "I have great doubts about Donald Trump's ability to be commander in chief," Bush said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "If you listen to him talk, it's kind of scary, to be honest with you, because he's not a serious candidate." Bush said Trump offered conflicting opinions on his strategy to deal with Syria and the Islamic State group. Trump "said we had no interest in being involved in Syria. And then he said let the Russians take out ISIS. And then he said let ISIS take out Assad. I just think he's uninformed," Bush said.
CLEVELAND -- Prosecutors in Ohio on Saturday released a frame-by-frame analysis of the surveillance camera footage first made public a year ago that shows a white Cleveland police officer fatally shooting a black 12-year-old boy who had a pellet gun. The additional images from surveillance video at a recreation center where Tamir Rice was shot and killed don't appear to contain new or substantive information. The footage was released in the "spirit of openness," said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty. The analysis doesn't show whether Tamir, as police officials have maintained, was reaching into his waistband for the pellet gun when rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann shot him less than two seconds after getting out of the car. The enhancement by a video expert will be presented to a grand jury that will decide whether Loehmann or his field training officer should be charged for Tamir's death.
FRESNO, Calif. -- Authorities say a suspected burglar died after getting stuck in a chimney. Fresno County Sheriff's Lt. Brandon Pursell said a homeowner in the rural town of Huron heard someone yell after lighting a fire in his fireplace Saturday afternoon and alerted authorities. Pursell said the homeowner tried to put out the fire as his house began to fill with smoke. Firefighters who rushed to the house used jackhammers to break open the brick chimney, but when they got to the man, he had died. Investigators will conduct an autopsy to determine the man's identity and the cause of death.
-- From wire reports
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