Celebrities rally behind filmmaker arrested in pipeline protests
By Dan Whitcomb(Reuters) - Singer Neil Young, actor Mark Ruffalo and other celebrities on Thursday joined in calling for charges to be dropped against a documentary maker arrested while filming...
View ArticleLos Angeles Thai community mourns passing of King Bhumibol
By Norma GaleanaLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many residents of Los Angeles's bustling Thai community on Thursday mourned the death of Thailand's long-standing and widely-adored leader, King Bhumibol...
View ArticlePhoenix woman removes handcuffs, hangs herself in police van: police
(Reuters) - A woman arrested in Phoenix for domestic violence and assaulting a police officer slipped out of her handcuffs and hung herself with a shoelace from a vent in the back of a police van,...
View ArticleU.S. Senator Warren urges Obama to replace head of SEC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren urged President Barack Obama on Friday to replace Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White, saying she had undermined the agency's...
View ArticleObama plans overhaul of child support payment rules for prisoners
By Ayesha RascoeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration, in its final weeks, plans to ease the legal obligations on prisoners to pay for child support while they are locked up, targeting...
View ArticleHudson train tunnel between NY, NJ gets fast environmental review
By Hilary RussNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and other officials on Friday said the federal government would expedite the environmental review for a new train tunnel...
View ArticleAtlanta Fed sees U.S. third-quarter GDP below 2 percent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is on track to grow at a 1.9 percent annualized pace in the third quarter following the September data on domestic retail data, the Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDP...
View ArticlePuerto Rico governor offers plan to right island's economic ship
By Rodrigo Campos and Daniel BasesNEW YORK (Reuters) - Puerto Rico's outgoing governor, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, presented a fiscal turnaround plan on Friday to a federal oversight board, stating if...
View ArticleTwo Indianapolis shootings targeting law enforcement possibly linked
By Timothy Mclaughlin(Reuters) - Two shootings this month targeting police in Indianapolis may be related, police said on Friday, a day after shots again struck law enforcement offices in the Indiana...
View ArticleFlorida Supreme Court strikes down new death penalty law
By Letitia SteinTAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida's Supreme Court overturned a new state death penalty law on Friday because it does not require juries to unanimously recommend capital punishment, a...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Democrats win extension of voter registration deadline
By Colleen JenkinsWINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A state judge in North Carolina gave residents in counties hit hard by Hurricane Matthew five extra days to register to vote after Democrats sued to...
View ArticleDrug kingpin Guzman U.S. extradition set for early 2017: senior official
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico expects to extradite captured drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States at the outset of 2017, a top government official said on Friday, despite ongoing...
View ArticleNew York pharmacy's 'man tax' to highlight tampon costs prompts backlash
By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A New York City pharmacy that imposed a tax only on male customers has received some 3,000 hate messages, its co-owner said on Friday, amid a...
View ArticleTwo Wisconsin men charged with trying to join Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Wisconsin men have been charged with attempting to travel overseas to join the Islamic State militant group, the Justice Department said on Friday.Jason Michael Ludke, 35,...
View ArticleMourners gather to remember black man killed by Charlotte police
By Harriet McLeodJAMES ISLAND, S.C. (Reuters) - Mourners at the funeral for Keith Scott, whose death in a police shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina last month led to a week of sometimes violent...
View ArticleNearly two dozen San Antonio police punished for wearing Trump hats
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Nearly two dozen San Antonio police seen in uniform wearing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" hats will be reprimanded or provided...
View ArticleThree Kansas men charged with bomb plot against Somalians
By Kevin MurphyKANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) - Three men were arrested on Friday and charged with plotting to bomb an apartment complex in western Kansas where 120 people lived, including Muslim...
View ArticleNew Jersey Governor Christie signs gas tax hike, restarts halted...
By Hilary RussNEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday signed into law a gasoline tax hike of 23 cents a gallon and ordered that stalled bridge, road and transit projects be...
View ArticleManson follower denied parole from California prison
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A follower of 1960s cult leader Charles Manson, who masterminded one of the most notorious mass murders of the 20th century, was denied parole from a California prison,...
View ArticleConnecticut judge dismisses Sandy Hook families' suit against gunmaker
(Reuters) - A Connecticut judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the families of some of the 26 young children and adults killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in 2012, saying the maker of...
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