user: Q: Why Kevin McCarthy Came to Quit Speaker Race

WASHINGTON—Rep. Kevin McCarthy started hearing the demands as soon as House Speaker John Boehner announced his decision to step aside.

Conservative Republicans threatened to withhold their votes for Mr. McCarthy as speaker unless he helped make one of their own the next majority leader. A group of House conservatives, called the Freedom Caucus, demanded seats on the panel that decides committee assignments and changes to House rules....
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A: In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he had concluded that what had become a painful and potentially ugly process of securing the required 218 votes would ultimately hobble him in doing the job.


Q: Can We Create an Ethical Robot?

As you try to imagine yourself cruising along in the self-driving car of the future, you may think first of the technical challenges: how an automated vehicle could deal with construction, bad weather or a deer in the headlights. But the more difficult challenges may have to do with ethics. Should your car swerve to save the life of the child who just chased his ball into the street at the risk of killing the elderly couple driving the other way? Should this calculus be different when it’s your own life that’s at risk or the...
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A: Without our social sense, an android will buy that last muffin, and a driverless car might run over a child.


Q: 1 Police Officer Killed, 5 Wounded In Utah Drug Shooting

Ogden, Utah – Authorities say a Utah police officer has died following a shootout that left five other officers and a suspect wounded.

Ogden police say in a statement early Thursday that Jared Francom died from his wounds following Wednesday night's drug-related shooting.

Five police officers from multiple agencies remain hospitalized with serious to critical injuries. No more information on their conditions was released.

The suspect in the shooting is at a local hospital under guard, with non-life threatening injuries.

The shooting occurred as an anti-drug strike team was serving a warrant. The Standard-Examiner in Ogden reported that more police responded upon word of at least one officer shot.

Police blocked off the area from 34th Street and Jackson Avenue to 32nd Street and a SWAT team took positions. The paper said police eventually surrounded the suspect near a backyard shed.

The residence was secured after the arrest, and at 9:45 p.m. police announced that there was no longer a threat to the community, the paper said.

The team serving the search warrant involved officers from the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force. The force's website says the unit is made up of officers from the Weber County Sheriff's Office, local police departments and the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency.

Four of the officers were taken to nearby McKay-Dee Hospital. Several off-duty doctors and nurses were called in to help with the situation, said hospital spokesman Chris Dallin.

Nearby witnesses said they heard three quick pops followed by a two to three minute pause, then lots of gunfire.

"We came running outside to see what was going on," Janessa Vanderstappen, who lives nearby, told the Deseret News. "Officers told us to go back in our house."

Vanderstappen said she went back inside, and minutes later heard yelling coming from the backyard. She said she walked onto the back porch to see officers addressing a person hiding in a nearby shed.

"There's cops telling him to `put your hands up, put your hands up," she said.

Mat Weinberger, who lives about a half block from the scene, said he first thought the noise was fireworks.

From the porch, he told the Salt Lake Tribune that he could see several police cars parked at a nearby intersection. He also could hear a voice on the police radio shout that an officer was down.

He estimated that between 30 to 40 shots were fired during the shootout.

"Chaotic end to a quiet night," he said.
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assistant: Gunfire erupted as anti-drug police served a search warrant in an Ogden neighborhood, leaving six police officers and a suspect wounded in a shootout, authorities said.