U.S. to open new vetting agency for 'secret' security clearances
By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government will open the doors next week to a new agency, with stronger data protections, meant to shorten by many weeks the time it takes to vet...
View ArticleHuntington Ingalls wins $400 million U.S. defense contract -Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc is being awarded a $400 million contract to perform repairs for nuclear-powered submarines, special mission submersibles, moored training ships...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty in California kidnapping police first deemed hoax
By Curtis SkinnerSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man pleaded guilty on Thursday to kidnapping in connection with a bizarre 2015 abduction case in the San Francisco Bay Area that police initially deemed a...
View ArticleCalifornia requires single-stall public bathrooms to be open to all
By Sharon BernsteinSACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Single-stall public restrooms in California will be open to anyone regardless of gender under a bill signed by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown on...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court returns to work with glaring vacancy
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday in uncharted territory, with an vacancy on the bench on a presidential Election Day now certain for the...
View ArticleTeen suspect in South Carolina school shooting charged with murder
By Harriet McLeodCHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A South Carolina teenager suspected of killing his father and wounding two boys and a teacher at an elementary school was charged on Friday with one count...
View ArticleHurricane Matthew weakens slightly as heads for Jamaica and Cuba
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew weakened slightly on Saturday as it moved toward Jamaica and Cuba, although with winds of up to 155 miles per hour (250 kph) it is powerful enough to...
View ArticleFlooding shuts Mississippi River lock in southern Iowa-Army Corps
(Reuters) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed a Mississippi River lock on Friday morning due to high water and is likely to shutter another over the weekend, halting grain barge movement on the...
View ArticleTulsa officer pleads not guilty to manslaughter in shooting death
By Richard RoweTULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - A white police officer charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed black man pleaded not guilty on Friday in court in Tulsa, Oklahoma,...
View ArticleCostco should pay $5.5 million for selling fake Tiffany rings: U.S. jury
By Andrew ChungNEW YORK (Reuters) - Costco Wholesale Corp should hand over $5.5 million to compensate Tiffany & Co for selling counterfeit Tiffany diamond engagement rings, a federal jury said on...
View ArticleAlabama chief justice ousted over gay marriage defiance
By Letitia Stein(Reuters) - The chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court was effectively ousted on Friday by a judicial panel that found he unethically resisted U.S. court rulings that legalized...
View ArticleConnecticut police plead for end to paintball gun battles
(Reuters) - Police in New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday pleaded for an end to a spate of battles with paintball and BB guns on city streets in broad daylight, warning they had received more than a...
View ArticleMan killed by police in Ohio was a suspect in earlier murder: police
(Reuters) - A man fatally shot by police in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday was the suspect in a murder that occurred earlier in the day and was armed, police said in a statement.The Columbus Division of...
View ArticleTurkish gold trader loses bid to recuse U.S. judge
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has rejected a request to recuse himself from overseeing the case of a Turkish gold trader accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran,...
View ArticleEx-Morgan Stanley broker gets three years prison in insider trading ring
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - A former Morgan Stanley stockbroker who participated in a $5.6 million insider trading ring involving stock tips passed on napkins and Post-it notes in New York's Grand...
View ArticleCalifornia toughens rape laws after Stanford case uproar
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday signed legislation to broaden the state's legal definition of rape and mandate prison if the victim was unconscious,...
View ArticlePolice release videos of officer shooting California man
By Patrick FallonEL CAJON, Calif. (Reuters) - Authorities on Friday released two videos of police shooting an unarmed black man dead in El Cajon, California, but the grainy footage, much of it without...
View ArticleNew U.S. 'secret' clearance unit hires firm linked to 2014 hacks
By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. government bureau set up to do "secret" and "top secret" security clearance investigations has turned for help to a private company whose login...
View ArticleWATCH: Chelsea Clinton Campaigns in Green Bay
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Chelsea Clinton rallied supporters on her mom's behalf during a visit to Green Bay on Friday. The younger Clinton spoke for about 45 minutes stumping for Democratic presidential...
View ArticleStudent no longer at Tennessee school after disrupting Black Lives Matter...
(Reuters) - A student is no longer enrolled at a Tennessee university after attending a Black Lives Matter protest on campus wearing a gorilla mask and handing out bananas, a university official said...
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