Bahamian man gets five years in U.S. prison for hacking celebrities
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A Bahamian man was sentenced to five years in U.S. prison on Tuesday for hacking into celebrities' email accounts to steal unreleased film and television scripts,...
View ArticleU.S. high schoolers fall behind world peers in math, study says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. high school students are falling further behind their global peers in mathematics and are treading water in reading and science, an ongoing survey on international education...
View ArticleAmerican tourist killed in lightning strike in Australia: police
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An American backpacker was killed in Australia on Tuesday when lightning struck his tent, police and local media said, as severe thunderstorms swept the east coast.Police said the...
View ArticleWrigley critical of administration, calls pipeline camp 'Crisis'
FARGO (KFGO) - North Dakota's Lt. Gov. is criticizing the federal government. Drew Wrigley says it's done nothing to convince protesters to leave the oil pipeline camp south of Mandan, which grew to...
View ArticleSuriname leader's son's 'right hand' gets prison in U.S. drug case
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A Surinamese man convicted of acting as the "right-hand man" to the son of the country's president during a scheme to send large amounts of cocaine to the United...
View ArticleMurder or self-defense argued in trial over ex-NFL star's killing
By Helen FreundNEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The shooting death of retired NFL player Will Smith was an "execution," Louisiana prosecutors said in court on Tuesday, opening a high-profile murder trial in...
View ArticleMan fatally shot by Ohio police officer identified as UAE student
By Kim PalmerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - A man shot and killed after he crashed his car and struggled with an Ohio police officer was a 26-year-old college student and citizen of the United Arab Emirates,...
View ArticleU.S. judge grants new immigration fraud trial for Palestinian activist
DETROIT (Reuters) - A federal judge in Detroit on Tuesday granted a new trial for a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to disclose that she had been imprisoned in Israel in...
View ArticleJunk-rated Chicago schools plan new kind of bond issue
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's public school (CPS) system plans to sell a new type of bond issue in an attempt to separate the debt from the district's severe financial woes and protect it in a...
View ArticleNo charges against Iowa police officer in shooting of motorist
By Timothy Mclaughlin(Reuters) - A white Iowa police officer who shot and paralyzed a black motorist during a traffic stop last month will not be charged, prosecutors said on Tuesday.Linn County...
View ArticleJudge approves San Bernardino, California's plan to exit bankruptcy
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The judge overseeing San Bernardino, California's municipal bankruptcy said on Tuesday she would approve the city's plan to restructure its finances, according to a...
View ArticleMilitary doctor denies Chelsea Manning's request to have records reflect...
(Reuters) - A military doctor treating former U.S. intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning while she serves a prison sentence for espionage denied her request to have her female gender reflected in her...
View ArticleWATCH: Remembering Pearl Harbor
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor is Wednesday.Green Bay resident Firman Balza served on the USS Maryland at that Hawaiian base...
View ArticleTrump lays out non-interventionist U.S. military policy
By Steve HollandFAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump laid out a U.S. military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on...
View ArticleGeorgia executes man for fatally shooting father-in-law: state
(Reuters) - Georgia executed on Tuesday a man convicted of fatally shooting his father-in-law and kidnapping his estranged wife and her sister in 1990, becoming the ninth person put to death in the...
View ArticleWhite nationalist leader's speech sparks protests at Texas university
By Lisa Maria GarzaCOLLEGE STATION, Texas (Reuters) - Texas A&M University students and activists protested against a speech on Tuesday by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who was filmed at a...
View ArticleDoctors as taxi drivers: Untapped immigrant talent costs U.S. billions: research
By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly 2 million immigrants with college degrees in the United States are out of work or in low-skilled jobs at a cost of billions of dollars in...
View ArticleRepublican FCC commissioners urge quick reversal of Obama rules
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Republican U.S. Federal Communications Commissioners say the Trump administration should reverse many significant policies set by the telecommunications...
View ArticleOhio man linked to Islamic State appeals sentence in U.S. Capitol plot
By Ginny McCabeCINCINNATI (Reuters) - An Ohio man has appealed his sentence of 30 years imprisonment for plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol in Washington with guns and bombs in sympathy with Islamic...
View ArticleGeorgia officer killed, second wounded in shooting near university
By Rich McKayATLANTA (Reuters) - A young Georgia police officer was shot and killed and a second critically injured while responding to a report of a domestic dispute on Wednesday near a university...
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