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| Curfew takes hold in troubled streets of Ferguson |
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| By Ellen Wulfhorst FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - A group of protesters angry at the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer remained on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, early on Sunday minutes past a declared curfew, as police gathered nearby in a tense standoff. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency after a week of racially charged protests and looting over the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the suburban St. Louis community. |
| Texas Governor Perry calls indictment politically motivated |
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 By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, said on Saturday an indictment against him for abuse of power was a political move that he intends to fight. Perry was indicted on Friday by a grand jury in Travis County, a Democratic stronghold in the heavily Republican state, on two counts of abuse of power and coercion over a funding veto he made last year that was seen as being intended to force a local prosecutor to resign. "This indictment amounts to nothing more than an abuse of power and I cannot and I will not allow that to happen," Perry told reporters in Austin, Texas.
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| Home of Canada opposition leader Trudeau broken into overnight |
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 The Ottawa house of Canadian opposition leader Justin Trudeau was broken into overnight while his wife and children were sleeping there but no one was harmed, officials with Trudeau's Liberal Party said on Saturday. Trudeau was in the western city of Winnipeg on a political tour at the time. Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau have three young children. The Liberals slumped into third place after the 2011 federal election but have revived under the leadership of Trudeau, son of former Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
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| Protesters take to streets again ahead of curfew in Ferguson |
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 By Ellen Wulfhorst FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Hundreds of demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, angry at the shooting death of a black teenager by police took to the streets in the rain on Saturday night, hours ahead of a planned curfew called for by the state's governor. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency, as he and other officials seek to restore order after a week of racially charged protests and looting over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. Johnson was named by the governor this week to oversee security in the suburban St. Louis community that has been roiled by the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The mood among hundreds of protesters on a main road in Ferguson that has been the scene of recent demonstrations was tense and defiant on Saturday night, in marked contrast to the festive atmosphere of Thursday.
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