Former President George H.W. Bush could leave hospital over weekend
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush is improving from a case of pneumonia that has kept him in a Houston hospital for more than 10 days and could go home by the weekend, a...
View ArticleNew York City subway avoids base fare hike, but other rates to rise
By Hilary RussNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City subway riders will not face a 25-cent hike on the system's base $2.75 fare, but the cost of weekly, monthly and bonus MetroCards will rise, the...
View ArticleChild sex trafficking victims sue Backpage.com in four states
By Kristina Cooke and Dan Levine(Reuters) - Online classified site Backpage.com was hit with child sex trafficking lawsuits in four states on Wednesday, expanding a high-stakes legal fight over a law...
View ArticleTrump's Mar-a-Lago resort hikes membership fees to $200,000
By Gina Cherelus(Reuters) - The Mar-a-Lago private resort owned by the Trump Organization in Palm Beach, Florida, hiked its membership fees to $200,000 in January after Donald Trump was elected U.S....
View ArticleIllinois governor cheers on effort to end budget impasse
By Dave McKinney and Karen PierogCHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois’ governor on Wednesday offered encouragement for a bipartisan bid to end the state’s record-setting budget stalemate, as Chicago’s mayor...
View ArticleTop 10 U.S. sanctuary cities face roughly $2.27 billion in cuts by Trump policy
By Rory Carroll, Robin Respaut and Andy Sullivan(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to strip municipalities of federal dollars for shielding illegal immigrants threatens $2.27 billion in...
View ArticleChicago to pay $4.75 million in police misconduct cases
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago will pay $4.75 million in settlements in two cases stemming from police misconduct after the city council voted to approve the payments on Wednesday.Shawn Whirl, who spent...
View ArticleFacebook's Zuckerberg 'reconsidering' land sale actions against Hawaiians
(Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is reconsidering efforts to force the sale of land tracts belonging to native Hawaiians that fall within a large estate he bought on the island of...
View ArticleTransCanada to find out if shippers still behind Keystone XL
WHISTLER, British Columbia (Reuters) - TransCanada Corp does not know definitively if shippers are still behind the recently revived Keystone XL pipeline project and will be reaching out to them to...
View ArticleVirginia zoo scours neighborhood for missing red panda
(Reuters) - Staff and volunteers at the Virginia Zoo were scouring nearby neighborhoods for a female red panda which may be roaming the area after she went missing from her enclosure, the zoo said.The...
View ArticleTexas inmate's execution delayed as motions filed to Supreme Court
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The execution of a Texas death row inmate convicted of double murder was delayed on Thursday after lawyers filed last-minute appeals to spare his life, saying...
View ArticleKiller named in decades-old New Hampshire quadruple murder
By Ted SieferCONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) - A man convicted of killing a California woman also murdered a woman and three girls in New Hampshire and may have had more victims, New Hampshire authorities said...
View ArticleFederal judge rejects Ohio's new lethal injection process, stays executions
By Kim PalmerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - A federal judge dismissed Ohio's new lethal injection process on Thursday, declaring it problematic, and extended a delay in three upcoming executions, saying the...
View ArticleIllinois Senate delays vote on budget fix until February
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A bill package aimed at ending Illinois' record-setting budget impasse and addressing the state's deep fiscal woes will not be voted on in the Senate until the second week of...
View ArticleRemains of missing Fort Campbell soldier identified
By Tim GhianniNASHVILLE (Reuters) - Skeletal remains discovered in Tennessee this week have been identified as those of a Fort Campbell soldier missing since September, officials said.The Tennessee...
View ArticleAtlanta's 'Spaghetti Junction' ranked as No.1 truck bottleneck in U.S.
By Frank McGurtyNEW YORK (Reuters) - The most-congested bottleneck for truck traffic in the United States is a suburban Atlanta intersection known as "Spaghetti Junction," where the average vehicle...
View ArticlePolice probe reported rape at Kansas University basketball dorm
(Reuters) - University of Kansas police are investigating the reported rape of a 16-year-old girl last month at the dormitory housing the college's highly ranked men's basketball team, officials said...
View ArticleFlorida airport shooting suspect indicted on 22 criminal counts
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted on 22 criminal counts an Iraq war veteran suspected of killing five people in a mass shooting at a Florida airport this month, U.S. prosecutors...
View ArticleNY man linked to Islamic State gets 20 years prison for New Year's Eve plot
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - An upstate New York man was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State, in connection...
View ArticleChicago school audit pegs FY 2016 deficit at $487 million
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) ended its last fiscal year with a bigger-than-expected deficit and will need to find new revenue or make major spending cuts in order to sustain...
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