U.S. Justice Department sues Virginia county for blocking mosque
(Reuters) - A Virginia county has discriminated against a Muslim congregation on religious grounds by halting the group's plans to build a small mosque on its land, the U.S. Justice Department said in...
View ArticleLufthansa plane search negative after bomb threat: Port Authority
SAN FRANCISCO/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A Lufthansa flight bound for Germany from Texas was diverted to New York City on Monday due to a bomb threat, but a subsequent search of the aircraft found no...
View ArticleJho Low family's move to claim assets rejected by U.S. court
(Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge rejected on Monday a move by family members of Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho to claim assets seized by the U.S. government in its probe into the scandal-tainted...
View ArticleArctic air chills parts of U.S. Great Plains on path to other regions
(Reuters) - A biting cold blast of Arctic air gripped the northern Great Plains early on Tuesday, bringing dangerous wind chills and the threat of frostbite, weather officials said.The Arctic air mass...
View ArticleSuspected pizzeria gunman faces hearing in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A North Carolina man faces a preliminary court hearing on Tuesday on a charge of shooting a rifle inside a Washington pizzeria that fake news stories claimed was a front for a...
View ArticleSheboygan Police Foil School Shooting Plot
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) - A Sheboygan man has been arrested and charged for planning a school shooting on Facebook. Joshua Bagemehl was charged in Sheboygan County Court after Police acted on an...
View ArticleBoeing to move defense unit headquarters to Washington, D.C.
(Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Tuesday it would move the headquarters of its defense unit to Washington, D.C. from St. Louis, a move that coincides with President-elect Donald Trump's push to get...
View ArticleU.S. sanctions money exchanges, Syrian man for financing Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday blacklisted two Iraqi and Syrian money service businesses for helping Islamic State move its money, along with a Syrian man it said was a financier...
View ArticleRoof scouted South Carolina church before deadly attack: FBI agent
By Harriet McLeodCHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Dylann Roof visited Charleston, South Carolina, at least six times in the months before he shot and killed nine people in a historic black church there in...
View ArticleEx-Guinea mines minister accused by U.S. of laundering bribes
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A former minister of mines in Guinea was arrested on Tuesday on U.S. charges that he laundered bribe payments he had accepted to help award a Chinese conglomerate...
View ArticleNorth Dakota pipeline spill cleanup ongoing a week after leak
By Liz HamptonHOUSTON (Reuters) - Roughly a third of the more than 3,000 barrels of oil that spilled into a North Dakota creek following a pipeline leak last week has been recovered, a local official...
View ArticleMore votes than voters in many Detroit precincts: newspaper
(Reuters) - Numerous voting machines in heavily Democratic Detroit showed a greater number of ballots than poll workers records said were cast in the Nov. 8 presidential election, the Detroit News...
View ArticleTech employees vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims, deport immigrants
By Dustin VolzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 200 employees of technology companies including Alphabet Inc's Google, Twitter Inc and Salesforce pledged on Tuesday to not help U.S. President-elect...
View ArticleOklahoma court strikes down abortion restriction as unconstitutional
By Jon Herskovitz(Reuters) - The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital near their clinic, saying...
View ArticleBritish tourist sentenced on weapons charge over Trump rally scare
By Eric M. Johnson(Reuters) - A 20-year-old British tourist who prosecutors say caused a security scare at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Las Vegas by trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer...
View ArticleOhio governor vetoes 'heartbeat' abortion ban, signs 20-week legislation
By Kim PalmerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - Republican Governor John Kasich signed a 20-week abortion ban into law on Tuesday but vetoed stricter legislation that would have forbidden the procedure once a fetal...
View ArticleKeep Safe in Extreme Cold
UNDATED (WTAQ) - With dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills outside, state officials are reminding you about ways to stay safe."The biggest danger is just not dressing for this frigid cold...
View ArticleChicago man pleads guilty to advising killers in Bali suitcase murder
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to his long-distance role in the 2014 murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, who was killed in Bali, Indonesia by her...
View ArticleWest Coast states to fight climate change even if Trump does not
By Ned RandolphCORONADO, Calif. (Reuters) - The governors of the three U.S. West Coast states on Tuesday vowed to step up their efforts to fight climate change in the face of the incoming...
View ArticleMike Pence look-alike raises money for LGBT charities in Times Square
By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New York City's Times Square has long been famous for its neon advertising, giant billboards and characters dressed up as anything from Mickey...
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