Black man dies in struggle with California police after calling for help: media
By Eric M. Johnson(Reuters) - A black man who died after a physical struggle with police in a southern California home made an emergency call to Pasadena police because he needed help and suffered from...
View ArticleNew Jersey train crash turns spotlight on Christie, funding crisis
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - A deadly New Jersey Transit train crash this week has renewed questions about Republican Governor Chris Christie's hard-nosed approach to a public transit funding...
View ArticleS&P cuts Illinois' credit rating on state's 'weak' management
CHICAGO (Reuters) - S&P Global Ratings dropped Illinois' credit rating one notch to BBB on Friday and warned it could fall further absent a long-term solution that deals with the state's chronic...
View ArticleTexas businessman Wyly strikes $198 million deal with SEC
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - Texas businessman Sam Wyly has agreed to pay $198.1 million to resolve claims by U.S. securities regulators that he engaged in a long-running securities fraud to...
View ArticleAccused mobster, near death, denies ties to Boston art heist: lawyer
By Scott MaloneBOSTON (Reuters) - An accused mobster on what may be his death bed once again denied knowing anything about the whereabouts of paintings stolen from a Boston museum in the largest art...
View ArticleAppeals court says U.S. 'motor voter' law preempts Kansas ID rules
By Alex Dobuzinskis(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling requiring Kansas to allow thousands of people who registered to vote at motor vehicle offices to stay on election...
View ArticlePennsylvania college students suspended over blackface video
(Reuters) - A Pennsylvania college has suspended two students for their role in an online video that showed a white female student in blackface and that was widely shared on social media.Albright...
View ArticleSupreme Court to weigh reach of insider trading law
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a closely watched insider trading case that could limit the ability of prosecutors to pursue such charges against...
View ArticleCanada finance minister to make announcement on Monday: office
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau has scheduled an announcement on Monday, his office said on Sunday, without disclosing further details.Morneau, who is traveling the country...
View ArticleEngineer of crashed N.J. train was fully rested; questions remain
By Richard LeongNEW YORK (Reuters) - The engineer of the New Jersey commuter train that crashed on Thursday told investigators he was fully rested but has no memory of the incident, and a recovered...
View Article'Study, pray, vote,' Pope tells Americans ahead of elections
By Philip PullellaABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday advised U.S. Catholics who feel they are torn between two imperfect candidates for president to study and pray before they...
View ArticleTwo North Carolina college students shot and killed at off-campus party
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Two students at North Carolina A&T State University died on Sunday after being shot during a fight at a large party held at an apartment near the school in...
View ArticleSupreme Court rejects Taser excessive force case
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's ruling that police use of a Taser amounted to unconstitutional excessive force in a case involving a...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Rejects John Doe Appeal
WASHINGTON D.C. (Wisconsin Radio Network) - The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal of a decision that shut down a controversial investigation into Governor Scott Walker’s campaign,...
View ArticleU.S. opens safety probes into 642,000 SUVs, cars
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they are opening two new preliminary investigations into 642,000 Ford sport utility vehicles and cars over door latch...
View ArticleGeorgia man charged in son's hot-car death lived 'double life': lawyer
By Rich McKayATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia man standing trial for murder after his toddler son died in a hot car in 2014 led a "double life of deception," a prosecutor said on Monday, accusing the...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court begins new term, still shorthanded
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday in low-key fashion, still down a justice for the foreseeable future because of the Republican-led Senate's...
View ArticleShootings at U.S. colleges deadlier and more frequent, report finds
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - Shootings on college campuses over the last five years have more than doubled since a similar period a decade earlier, according to a report released on Monday by a...
View ArticleOhio to resume executions in January after three-year pause
(Reuters) - The state of Ohio plans to resume the execution of condemned inmates in January, ending a three-year pause in carrying out death sentences, under a new lethal-injection protocol designed to...
View ArticleCantor Fitzgerald affiliate pays $22.5 million to end U.S. gambling probe
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - An affiliate of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald has agreed to pay $22.5 million to resolve investigations into its past involvement with illegal gambling...
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