Ex-Insys executives arrested for bribing U.S. doctors to prescribe painkiller
By Nate Raymond(Reuters) - Six former Insys Therapeutics Inc executives and managers were arrested on Thursday on charges they engaged in a nationwide scheme to bribe doctors to unnecessarily prescribe...
View ArticleMasterbuilt recalls U.S. gas smokers over fire risk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Masterbuilt Manufacturing Inc is recalling about 41,000 gas-fired smokers because a fuel hose can disconnect and pose a fire hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission...
View ArticleU.S. Congress votes to apply Magnitsky human rights act globally
By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation expanding the 2012 U.S. Magnitsky human rights act from Russian citizens to cover abusers in any country passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday as...
View ArticleU.S. carriers see 3.5 percent bump in 2016 winter holiday flying
By Alana Wise(Reuters) - More than 45 million passengers will take to the skies on U.S. airlines this holiday season, Airlines for America projected on Thursday, up 3.5 percent from holiday travel last...
View ArticleFor U.S. veterans, pipeline protest promises to galvanize activism
By Ernest Scheyder and Terray SylvesterCANNON BALL/FORT YATES, N.D. (Reuters) - U.S. veterans, thousands of whom last week helped stop a contested oil pipeline running through North Dakota, could...
View ArticleTrump to Say 'Thank You' in Wisconsin
UNDATED (Wisconsin Radio Network) - Republican President-elect Donald Trump will be in Wisconsin next week, as he continues a victory tour across the country.Trump will attend a rally next Tuesday...
View ArticleNY City shelter 'clusters' questioned after homeless toddler deaths
By Laila KearneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's use of private apartment buildings to house multiple homeless families came under fire on Thursday, a day after two children living in one of the...
View ArticleU.S. Marine pilot dies after ejecting from plane off Japan
(Reuters) - A U.S. Marine pilot has died after he ejected from his FA-18C+ fighter jet as the aircraft went down off the coast of Japan, the U.S. military said in a statement on Thursday.The pilot,...
View ArticlePolar vortex redux? U.S. forecasters say it could hit next week
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - Forecasters are sending chills down some spines with a prediction that much of the northern half of the United States could see frigid weather next week similar...
View ArticleArkansas Supreme Court blocks birth certificates for same-sex couples
By Steve BarnesLITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Birth certificates issued in Arkansas must identify the biological parents even if the child is subsequently adopted by a same-sex couple, a divided state...
View ArticleNew York, New Jersey 10-year transport plan could include rail tunnel
By Hilary RussJersey City, N.J. (Reuters) - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said for the first time on Thursday its next 10-year capital plan may include $2.7 billion for Amtrak's Gateway...
View ArticleZimmer Biomet to settle bribery charges with U.S. prosecutors: filing
By Joel SchectmanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities will reach a settlement with medical device maker Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc over bribery allegations in the next four weeks, prosecutors said...
View ArticleOakland city workers visited warehouse, did not flag fire hazard
By Heather Somerville, Kristina Cooke and Dan Levine(Reuters) - In the two years leading up to the fire at an Oakland, California warehouse that killed 36 people at a dance party late last week, city...
View ArticleTrump says U.S.-China relationship must improve
By Emily StephensonDES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States needed to improve its relationship with China, which he criticized for its economic...
View ArticleOhio passes second, less restrictive, abortion bill
By Kim PalmerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ohio lawmakers passed a second piece of legislation in two days on Thursday restricting abortion access in the state by banning the procedure after 20 weeks of...
View ArticleAlabama executes 45-year-old man found guilty in the 1994 killing
(Reuters) - Alabama executed a former Eagle scout on Thursday for a convenience store killing in 1994, the 20th person executed in the United States this year and the second in Alabama.Ronald Smith,...
View ArticleWB I-96 Reopens After Deadly Pileup
FOWLERVILLE, MI (WLMI) -- Westbound I-96 is reopened after a 40 vehicle pileup that killed three people. Investigators say that slick roads and white-out conditions appear to have caused the crash.One...
View ArticleOne dead after shooting near WMU campus
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) -- Police say they're looking for two suspects after a 20-year-old Western Michigan University student was found shot dead at an apartment complex near the school's Kalamazoo...
View ArticleActivist Chicago priest reflects on city's 'shameful' violent year
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - A longtime activist Chicago priest who has marched in protests, attended vigils and delivered sermons decrying violence in the city's most deadly year in nearly...
View ArticleRivian bids on shuttered Mitsubishi plant in Illinois
By Bernie Woodall and Paul Lienert(Reuters) - Michigan-based Rivian Automotive is negotiating to buy the former Mitsubishi Motors <7211.T> plant in Normal, Illinois, and plans to reopen it in...
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