Chelsea Manning seeks to overturn WikiLeaks court-martial conviction
By Ian SimpsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier imprisoned for handing over classified files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, has appealed to an Army court to overturn her...
View ArticleU.S. charges ex-Marine said to bilk vets in Chicago hedge fund fraud
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - Federal prosecutors in Chicago unveiled a criminal fraud charge against an Illinois man who authorities say masqueraded as a successful hedge fund manager, using his...
View ArticleCBS Newsman Morley Safer Dead At Age 84, Retired Days Ago
NEW YORK, NY (Reuters) -- Television journalist Morley Safer, who made his reputation as a Vietnam War correspondent for CBS and then became a mainstay on the network's "60 Minutes" show for 46 years,...
View ArticleEx-U.S. House Speaker Hastert to report to prison June 22: judge
(Reuters) - Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, once one of the country's most powerful politicians, will report to a federal prison next month for a financial crime linked to sexual abuse of...
View ArticleU.S. judge upholds Virginia's voter ID law
By Gary RobertsonRICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Thursday upheld a 2013 Virginia law requiring prospective voters to show an approved photo identification before they cast their...
View ArticleTrump's Supreme Court list: all conservative, some provocative
By Lawrence HurleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - William Pryor, in urging the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 to uphold a Texas law banning gay sex, argued against the notion that the U.S. Constitution should...
View ArticleNew York lawyer gets prison after detailing fraud in suicide note
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York lawyer was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for running a more than $5 million Ponzi scheme that he detailed in a lengthy suicide note that...
View ArticleJury weighs sentence for Cleveland man convicted of murdering three women
By Kim PalmerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio jury on Thursday began deliberating whether a Cleveland man convicted of murdering three women and wrapping their bodies in plastic to disguise them as trash...
View ArticlePhoenix police officer shot by suspect dies of gunshot wounds
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A Phoenix police officer died on Thursday of wounds he sustained while exchanging gunfire with a burglary suspect, authorities said. Officer David Glasser, 35, was pronounced dead...
View ArticleTwo charged in murders of six members of Chicago family
By Fiona OrtizCHICAGO (Reuters) - A relative has been charged in the February stabbing and shooting murders of six members of a Chicago family, including two children, police said on Thursday.Diego...
View ArticleSan Francisco police chief resigns under pressure after officer shooting
By Curtis SkinnerSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco's police chief, Greg Suhr, resigned under pressure from the city's mayor on Thursday, just hours after an officer's fatal shooting a black woman...
View ArticleOklahoma bungled drugs used in executions: grand jury report
By Jon Herskovitz and Heide Brandes(Reuters) - An Oklahoma grand jury looking into the state's troubled executions said in a report released on Thursday that jail staff did not verify what drugs they...
View ArticleApple unveils new store design in San Francisco
By Julia Love(Reuters) - Apple Inc unveiled a new vision for its hugely successful retail stores on Thursday, aiming to give shoppers the experience of setting foot in the headquarters of the company...
View ArticleKentucky pension board chair threatened with arrest in spat with governor
(Reuters) - A fight between Kentucky's governor and the state's main public pension system escalated on Thursday when its chairman, who had defied an executive order dismissing him from the post, was...
View ArticleEgyptAir jet missing after mid-air plunge over Mediterranean
BY LIN NOUEIHED AND GEORGE GEORGIOPOULOSCAIRO/ATHENS (Reuters) - An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean on Thursday in what...
View ArticleIllinois mayor settles muni bond fraud charges: SEC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The mayor of Harvey, Illinois, has agreed to pay $10,000 and never participate in a municipal bond offering again as part of settling fraud charges, the Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleOhio girl's stepfather, stepbrother charged for keeping her chained
(Reuters) - The stepfather and stepbrother of a Toledo, Ohio, girl were arrested on kidnapping charges on Thursday for keeping the 13-year-old captive and chained in their basement for as long as a...
View ArticleGuards, inmates charged with smuggling at New York's Rikers Island
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - Two guards and six inmates at New York's troubled Rikers Island jail complex are among 17 people charged with running extensive smuggling networks to provide prisoners...
View ArticleElderly Floridian cannot afford medicine, kills suffering wife
(Reuters) - An elderly Florida man was in jail on Thursday after he said he fatally shot his ailing wife because her medications were no longer affordable and she was in pain.William J. Hager, 86, was...
View ArticleOhio jury recommends death penalty for man who killed three women
By Kim PalmerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio jury on Friday unanimously recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of murdering three women in 2012 and 2013 and keeping their bodies wrapped in...
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