Wisdom the albatross, age 66, lays an egg at Pacific refuge
By Eric M. JohnsonSEATTLE (Reuters) - Wisdom the albatross, the world's oldest known breeding bird in the wild, has laid an egg at 66 years of age after returning to a wildlife refuge in the Pacific...
View ArticleManhattan apartment sales prices top $2 million for first time: survey
By Herbert LashNEW YORK (Reuters) - The average sales price of an apartment in Manhattan is expected to top $2 million this year for the first time, but prices are seen leveling off in 2017 after...
View ArticleCalifornia police answering gunman report shoot unarmed man dead
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California police officer responding to a report of a man with a gun shot to death an unarmed 73-year-old man who approached the officer without taking his...
View ArticleObama Signs 21st Century Cures Act
WASHINGTON D.C. (WHTC) - President Obama has signed the $6.3 billion 21st Century Cures Act into law.It gives the National Institutes of Health $4.8 billion for Vice President Joe Biden's so-called...
View ArticleCold persists in U.S. Midwest as Pacific Northwest braces for snow
(Reuters) - Arctic air blowing through Chicago and other parts of the U.S. Midwest was expected to keep the region under a deep freeze on Wednesday, as residents of Oregon were blanketed with snow from...
View ArticleCalifornia to adopt first U.S. energy-saving rules for computers
By Steve GormanLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California regulators were poised on Wednesday to adopt the nation's first mandatory energy efficiency rules for computers and monitors - devices that account for...
View ArticleWoman in U.S. church massacre was spared 'to tell the story,' she testifies
By Harriet McLeodCHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A 72-year-old retired nurse recounted for jurors on Wednesday how she cowered under a table while Dylann Roof killed nine of her fellow worshippers at a...
View ArticleNew York firefighters put out blaze at NYU hospital
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Firefighters on Wednesday extinguished a fire at a New York City hospital complex that sent up plumes of thick black smoke visible for miles but injured no one.The building where...
View ArticleLouisiana judge throws out executive order to protect LGBT rights
(Reuters) - A Louisiana judge on Wednesday threw out an order from the state's Democratic governor aimed at protecting the rights of gay and transgender people, ruling that the governor had overstepped...
View ArticleObama administration shores up protections for Planned Parenthood
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - The Obama administration has issued a final rule designed to block states from withholding federal Title X money for Planned Parenthood and other family planning...
View ArticleU.S. top court to weigh limits on where patent lawsuits can be filed
By Andrew Chung(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether to limit where patent lawsuits may be filed, potentially threatening a years-long trend that critics say allows...
View ArticleU.S. fines American Airlines $1.6 million for violating tarmac delay rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday fined American Airlines a record-matching $1.6 million for violating a rule that prohibits long tarmac delays.The department said...
View ArticleCalifornia police probe 'suspicious' death of CorePower Yoga founder
(Reuters) - Police in San Diego said on Wednesday they were investigating the "suspicious" death of the founder of yoga studio chain CorePower Yoga.The body of 48-year-old Trevor Tice was found in a...
View ArticleU.S. senators seek to protect banking for pot business vendors
By Lisa LambertWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government should keep banks from cutting off the accounts of vendors who work with state-sanctioned marijuana businesses, 10 U.S. senators said in a...
View ArticleU.S. looks for potential issues linked to falsified French nuclear documents
(Reuters) - U.S. nuclear regulators are investigating whether the suspected falsification of documents at French nuclear power company Areva SA, which supplies components for reactors globally, poses...
View ArticleTexas 'affluenza' teen's father found guilty of impersonating officer
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The father of the so-called Texas affluenza teen was found guilty on Wednesday by a jury of impersonating a police officer and given probation, prosecutors...
View ArticleColorado plans new DNA tests in JonBenet Ramsey murder case
By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - Colorado investigators will conduct new tests of DNA evidence in the 20-year-old unsolved murder of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, the Boulder County district...
View ArticleChicago to pay over $5 million in two police shootings suits
By Timothy MclaughlinCHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago will pay around $5.4 million in settlements for two men killed by police officers after the city council voted to approve the payments on Wednesday.The...
View ArticleUSDA faces backlash over rules it says will help poultry growers
By Tom PolansekCHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed rules on Wednesday it said will help protect chicken producers from mistreatment by the small group of meat companies that...
View ArticleSnow storm grips Portland, bringing drivers to a halt
(Reuters) - A major snowstorm hit Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, causing traffic accidents and forcing the closure of some streets and highways, which trapped thousands of drivers in gridlock during...
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