More than $900,000 raised to rebuild fire-ravaged Texas mosque
By Curtis Skinner(Reuters) - More than $900,000 has been raised in an online fundraiser for a south Texas mosque destroyed by fire over the weekend, exceeding the amount needed to rebuild the place of...
View ArticleClean-up begins at Dakota pipeline protest camp
By Terray SylvesterCANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) - Dump trucks and heavy machinery rolled into the protest camp near the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Monday, and crews began filling large...
View ArticleCocaine found in nose cone of American Airlines jet: police
(Reuters) - An airline maintenance worker in Oklahoma found 31 pounds (14 kg) of cocaine in the nose cone of an American Airlines jet after it arrived from Colombia, police said on Monday.Seven bricks...
View ArticleAmerican runner travels the world to win seven marathons in a week
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Starting over the snow in Antarctica and ending next to the sands of Sydney, an American shipbroker won seven marathons in seven continents over seven days to claim the World...
View ArticleMassachusetts joins court battle against Trump travel ban
By Scott MaloneBOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts on Tuesday joined a legal effort to block U.S. President Donald Trump's order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, which the state's...
View ArticleDutch government ends talks with U.S. on 'pre-clearance' of airline passengers
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Tuesday it had ended talks with the United States over allowing "pre-clearance" of passengers traveling from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport following...
View ArticleHomeland Security chief in noon news conference on Trump immigration orders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly will participate in a press conference at noon EST (1700 GMT) on Tuesday with other department officials to discuss implementation...
View ArticleUNWTO warns Trump immigration order could hurt U.S. travel demand
BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries could affect demand for travel to the United States, the UN World Tourism Organization said on Tuesday.Alongside...
View ArticleKushner divests equity in major NYC property
By Joy WiltermuthNEW YORK (IFR) - Jared Kushner has divested his equity interest in 666 Fifth Avenue, a 39-story office and retail building on Manhattan’s famed shopping area, according to a...
View ArticleMissouri executes man for 1998 triple murder
By Timothy Mclaughlin(Reuters) - A man convicted of killing a woman and her two children after a break-in at their home in southern Missouri in 1998 was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday.Mark...
View ArticleChallenges to Trump's immigration orders spread to more U.S. states
By Scott Malone and Dan LevineBOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Legal challenges to President Donald Trump's first moves on immigration spread on Tuesday, with three states suing over his executive...
View ArticleNY prosecutor urges jury to accept recanted confession in six-year-old's 1979...
By David IngramNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York prosecutor urged a jury on Tuesday to believe the videotaped confession of a man who told police he lured and killed six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979,...
View ArticleNew York joins ACLU lawsuit against White House immigration order
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York joined a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's executive order stopping immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, with state...
View ArticleDefense for accused New York bomber Rahimi vows fight over DNA
By Daniel TrottaNEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for the man accused of injuring 30 people by detonating a bomb in New York City complained that government investigators took a DNA sample from him without...
View ArticleBomb threats target U.S. Jewish centers for third time in a month
NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a dozen Jewish community centers around the United States and one in Canada received bomb threats on Tuesday, the third wave of threatened attacks against them this...
View ArticleSome Sept. 11 families join criticism of Trump immigration order
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - Several relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington criticized President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration on Tuesday, saying...
View ArticleTexas Muslims decry Trump policies at capitol rally in Austin
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - With arms locked and voices joined to sing the U.S. national anthem, more than 1,000 people rallied at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday against Trump...
View ArticleWife of Florida nightclub gunman seeks pretrial release
By Curtis SkinnerSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, asked a California court on Tuesday to be released from custody pending...
View ArticleNew York art dealer avoids prison for $80 million counterfeit scheme
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York art dealer avoided prison for her role in a scheme that led two Manhattan galleries to buy dozens of fake paintings that they then sold for $80 million,...
View ArticleFlorida man found guilty of Islamic State-inspired bomb plot
(Reuters) - A Florida man was convicted on Tuesday of plotting to set off a bomb at a public beach in an act that prosecutors said was inspired by the militant group Islamic State.Harlem Suarez, 25,...
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