Charlotte not budging on ordinance that spurred North Carolina bathroom law
By Colleen JenkinsWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, refused on Monday to back off an ordinance that had aimed to expand anti-discrimination protections for gay and...
View ArticleOklahoma police release video of officer shooting unarmed black man
(Note: Please be advised that this story contains graphic details in paragraph 9 that may offend some readers)By Lenzy Krehbiel-BurtonTULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma released video...
View ArticleU.S. may seek power to pre-approve self-driving car technology
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration said Monday it was considering seeking the power to review and approve technology for self-driving cars before they hit the road and...
View ArticleA New York tale: Two men find bag, remove bomb, take bag
By Dan Whitcomb(Reuters) - New York City police investigating a bombing in Manhattan over the weekend said on Monday they wanted to question two men who appeared to stumble over a second device made...
View ArticleBrother of JonBenet Ramsey thinks pedophile killed her
By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - The brother of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose 1996 murder remains unsolved, said on Monday he had nothing to do with her death, speculating that the killer...
View ArticleSouthwest Airlines flight blows tire, returns to Los Angeles
(Reuters) - A Southwest Airlines flight traveling to Nashville on Monday was forced to return to Los Angeles after a tire blew on the aircraft's landing gear during takeoff, the airline said. Flight...
View ArticleNew York jail guard pleads guilty to cover-up in inmate's death
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A guard at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges that he tried to cover up an assault by a fellow officer that led to an...
View ArticleSenate Republicans seek probe of Mylan EpiPen oversight
By Brendan PiersonNEW YORK (Reuters) - Mylan NV faced new scrutiny over price hikes for its anti-allergy EpiPen on Tuesday, with U.S. lawmakers calling for a probe of oversight of the company’s rebates...
View ArticleFlorida sinkhole to cost Mosaic up to $50 million to fix
By Rod Nickel(Reuters) - A massive leak of contaminated water through a sinkhole at a Mosaic Co fertilizer facility in Florida will cost it $20 million to $50 million to fix, a company executive said...
View ArticleLebanese man sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Iran: lawyer
By Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr SharafedinWASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran sentenced Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese citizen with permanent U.S. residency, to 10 years in prison and a $4.2 million fine...
View ArticleU.S. proposes regulators have more say in self-driving car design
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration proposed on Tuesday deeper government involvement in the design of autonomous vehicle systems and called on manufacturers to share...
View ArticleStates, business groups sue U.S. government on overtime pay rule
By Daniel Wiessner(Reuters) - Officials from 21 U.S. states on Tuesday filed a lawsuit claiming an Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million workers will place a...
View ArticlePolice had no justification for fatal shooting of Oklahoma man: family's lawyers
By Lenzy Krehbiel-BurtonTULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - The unarmed black man fatally shot by a white Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer in an incident captured on video posed no imminent threat, lawyers for his...
View ArticleU.S. consumer protection agency fields nearly one million complaints
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading consumer protection agency has fielded nearly 1 million complaints in a database that helped investigate client abuse at Wells Fargo, the head of the agency told...
View ArticleU.S. man to plead guilty to conspiring to help Islamic State
By Scott MaloneBOSTON (Reuters) - A Rhode Island man charged last year with plotting to behead Massachusetts police officers in support of the Islamic State militant group is due to plead guilty to...
View ArticleMyanmar refugees, including Muslim Rohingya, outpace Syrian arrivals in U.S.
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - The resettlement of refugees from Middle Eastern countries, particularly Syria, has been the center of a heated political debate after President Barack Obama...
View ArticleCraigslist Post Prompts School Change
SUAMICO, WI (WTAQ) - A concerning post on Craigslist has led to a police investigation and a reminder.The Brown County Sheriff's Office is investigating a post on Craigslist seen Monday which...
View ArticleEx-partner of New York bombing suspect seeks child custody: court record
(Reuters) - The former partner of an Afghan-born man arrested after weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey is seeking full custody of their child, according to a court document seen by...
View ArticleU2 spy plane crash in California kills pilot, injures another
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane crashed shortly after takeoff during a training mission on Tuesday morning in California, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other, the Air...
View ArticleDiscrimination widens U.S. wage gap between black and white workers: researchers
By Alex Dobuzinskis(Reuters) - Black workers in the United States have dropped further behind white people in wages over the past four decades, largely because of racial discrimination in the labor...
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