Ex-Pentagon chief Laird dies, advocated 'Vietnamization' policy
By Will DunhamWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Melvin Laird, who as defense secretary under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 helped extricate U.S. forces from the morass of the Vietnam War in a policy...
View ArticleCalSTRS calculates total fees in likely first for public pension
By Robin Respaut(Reuters) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System announced on Wednesday that it had calculated the total costs and fees paid to manage its entire investment portfolio,...
View ArticleEngineer in New Jersey train wreck later diagnosed with sleep disorder
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for the engineer of a New Jersey commuter train that crashed in Hoboken in late September, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others, said...
View ArticleGas explosion in Illinois town kills one person, injures eight
(Reuters) - A large gas explosion killed one person and injured eight others in Canton, central Illinois on Wednesday, officials said on social media, as rescue workers searched for more casualties as...
View ArticleCenturies-old Ten Commandments tablet goes under hammer for $850,000
By Marice RichterDALLAS (Reuters) - A 1,500-year-old stone tablet with the earliest known chiseled inscription of the Ten Commandments was sold at a U.S. auction on Wednesday for $850,000.The two-foot...
View ArticleMichigan in race for Best Winter Wonderland
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) - Michigan is in the running for the "Best Winter Wonderland" location in the 2016 USA Today Reader's Choice Poll.Michigan has two cities to choose from. Frankenmuth and Mackinac...
View ArticleSupreme Court nominee early next year
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - The lame duck session of Congress has an ambitious schedule including passing a bill that funds the federal government beyond December 9th and a defense authorization...
View ArticleU.S. native groups promised input on development as pipeline dispute looms
By Valerie Volcovici and Patrick RuckerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to gather more input from native people as officials contemplate projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline,...
View ArticleNBA star LeBron James giving $2.5 million to Muhammad Ali exhibit
By Laila KearneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - LeBron James is donating $2.5 million to support a Muhammad Ali exhibit at the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleU.S. safety board investigates deadly Illinois gas explosion; one dead
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it is investigating a natural gas pipeline explosion that killed one and injured 11 in Canton, Illinois.The explosion...
View ArticleAccused New York City bomber pleads not guilty
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - Accused New York bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that he set off an explosive device in September on a crowded city street,...
View ArticleMaryland woman injured in state's first recorded bear attack
By David Ingram(Reuters) - A black bear mauled a woman in her rural Maryland driveway on Wednesday in a rare attack after she inadvertently came near the animal and its cubs, an official said on...
View ArticleAlito outlines possible conservative agenda for U.S. high court
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday laid out a possible agenda for the U.S. Supreme Court if it regains its conservative majority as expected after Donald Trump...
View ArticleAirbnb, San Francisco must work harder to resolve lawsuit: judge
By Dan LevineSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday said Airbnb and the city of San Francisco must work harder to resolve a court case over an ordinance forbidding the home-rental company...
View ArticleU.S. appeals court halts release of 'Making a Murderer' inmate
By Sharon Bernstein(Reuters) - A federal appeals court in Chicago on Friday blocked the immediate release from prison of Brendan Dassey, a Wisconsin man whose homicide conviction was overturned in a...
View ArticleMissouri agrees to pay $9 million in drowning death of handcuffed man
By Rory Carroll(Reuters) - Missouri has agreed to pay $9 million to the family of a man who drowned in 2014 when he was ejected from a boat while handcuffed and in a state trooper's custody, an...
View ArticleMan killed in boiling Yellowstone pool was looking for hot soak: report
By Dan Whitcomb(Reuters) - A 23-year-old man who was scalded to death after falling into a boiling Yellowstone National Park hot spring in June was trying to test the temperature of the bubbling pool...
View ArticleCongress could undo Obama-era student loan relief
By Lisa LambertWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress could as soon as January start to dismantle President Barack Obama's transformation of student loan rules by blocking freshly minted regulations...
View ArticleArizona officer who punched woman is put on leave as probes begin
By David SchwartzPHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona police officer caught on video punching a woman in her face was put on administrative leave and investigations were underway, the Flagstaff police chief...
View ArticleColorado judge denies gag order for Planned Parenthood gunman
By Keith CoffmanCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Lawyers for the man declared mentally unfit to stand trial for a fatal shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado last year lost...
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