Police offer $100,000 reward in hunt for suspect in killing of Florida officer
By Letitia Stein(Reuters) - Authorities offered a $100,000 reward on Tuesday for information leading to the capture of the man suspected in the fatal shooting of a policewoman in Orlando,...
View ArticleU.S. top court grapples with validity of credit card surcharge law
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled over how to decide a challenge to a state law barring retailers from charging more to buy with credit instead of...
View ArticlePort Authority of NY-NJ admits wrongdoing over roadway projects
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle charges it failed to inform investors of risks to roadway projects, becoming the first municipal...
View ArticlePolice arrest suspected hostage-taker after robbery attempt near University...
(Reuters) - An armed man who had taken several people hostage while trying to rob a credit union near the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa was arrested on Tuesday with no injuries to the hostages,...
View ArticleFox News settled sexual harassment claims by former host: WSJ
(Reuters) - Fox News reached a financial settlement several months ago with former host Juliet Huddy, who claimed she was sexually harassed by two top figures at the cable news network, the WSJ...
View ArticleWal-Mart owes pharmacist $16.08 million for gender bias, sum may drop
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $16.08 million to a former New Hampshire pharmacist in a gender bias case, but the amount is only about...
View ArticleArizona man goes on trial for helping student join Islamic State
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - An Arizona man went on trial on Tuesday on charges that he provided support to Islamic State by helping a New York college student travel to Syria, where he died...
View ArticleCalifornia Governor Brown proposes $179.5 billion state budget
By Rory Carroll and Robin Respaut(Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday proposed a $179.5 billion state budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal year, a 5 percent increase over this year, but...
View ArticleWith Trump, fight to end U.S. abortion rights gathers steam
By Ellen WulfhorstNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The battle to restrict abortion in the United States, heating up with the election of Donald Trump as president and a conservative Congress,...
View ArticleU.S. top court puts North Carolina voting districts ruling on hold
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put on hold a lower court's ruling requiring North Carolina to immediately redraw state legislative districts found to have...
View ArticleSix injured at J.M. Stuart power plant at Aberdeen, Ohio: company
(Reuters) - Six people were injured at Dayton Power & Light's J.M. Stuart power plant in Aberdeen, Ohio, on Tuesday and the facility was evacuated, the company said.The injuries were non...
View ArticleU.S. prosecutors plan corruption retrial for ex-Los Angeles county sheriff
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have decided to retry former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges that left a jury...
View ArticleFBI looks for source of 'robocall' bomb threats to Jewish centers
By David Ingram and Mark HosenballNEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A wave of telephone bomb threats to 16 Jewish community centers in nine U.S. states may have originated from the same number and been...
View ArticleSan Bernardino gunman’s brother pleads guilty to immigration fraud
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The brother of the man who with his wife killed 14 people in a shooting rampage at a government building in San Bernardino, California, pleaded guilty to immigration fraud on...
View ArticleNew York man gets 13 years prison for trying to join al Qaeda
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 years in prison for trying to join the Islamic militant group al Qaeda when he was a high school senior.Justin Kaliebe,...
View ArticleChristie to battle New Jersey's drug abuse problem in last year as governor
By Elinor Comlay(Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, trying to redeem himself at home and nationally after a scandal-tarred 2016, said on Tuesday he will make tackling New Jersey's spiraling...
View ArticleClinton, other former top diplomats mark new diplomacy center
By Yeganeh TorbatiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Four current and former U.S. secretaries of state, including Hillary Clinton, gathered at the State Department on Tuesday to mark the ceremonial opening of a...
View ArticleCalifornia police officer not charged in shooting of unarmed black man
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A police officer was legally justified in shooting dead an unarmed black man in El Cajon, California, in September, and will not be charged criminally, the county's top...
View ArticleFemale athletes sue famed U.S. sports doctor for sexual assault
(Reuters) - Eighteen female athletes on Tuesday sued a sports doctor to Olympian gymnasts, saying he sexually assaulted them under the guise of medical examinations over two decades when most of them...
View ArticleTennessee woman jailed over abortion attempt freed after a year
By Tim GhianniNASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A Tennessee woman initially accused of attempted murder for unsuccessfully using a coat hanger to try to abort a 24-week-old fetus has been released after...
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