Two U.S. service members injured in Iraq, Syria: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. service members were injured over the weekend, one each in Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday."They were not on the front lines, they were not engaged...
View ArticleHouse Speaker Paul Ryan: Not Ready To Endorse Donald Trump
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - The presidential primary season is coming to an end. Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.The controversial businessman has been slowly picking up endorsements from...
View ArticleJustice Department asks for hold on court sanctions in immigration case
By Julia EdwardsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed an emergency motion to stop sanctions imposed by a federal judge in Texas that included mandated ethics classes for...
View ArticleEx-U.S. soldier 'Rambo' gets 20 years in prison in murder-for-hire case
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A former U.S. Army sergeant nicknamed "Rambo" who prosecutors say supervised an international band of hit men and mercenaries was sentenced to 20 years in prison on...
View ArticleActor Michael Jace of TV's 'The Shield' convicted of murdering wife
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Michael Jace, best known for his role as a policeman on the TV drama "The Shield," was convicted by a jury on Tuesday of second-degree murder for...
View ArticleU.S. court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data
By Dustin VolzWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to...
View ArticleEx-Illinois police officer found guilty in murder-for-hire trial
By Justin Madden(Reuters) - Drew Peterson, a former Chicago-area police officer imprisoned for murdering his wife, was found guilty on Tuesday of trying to hire someone in 2014 to kill the prosecutor...
View ArticleGeneral Mills recalls flour over possible link to E.coli outbreak
(Reuters) - General Mills Inc on Tuesday issued a voluntary recall of about 10 million pounds of flour, saying it was working with health officials to investigate an outbreak of E. coli that had...
View ArticleSeptember 11 suspect asks that U.S. judge step down, cites evidence destruction
By Ian SimpsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military judge overseeing the trial of the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks should step down and the case should be scrapped because he...
View ArticleDoctors credit fitness for helping California woman survive shark attack
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A woman bitten by a shark off the coast of Southern California suffered a single chomp from her shoulder to her pelvis and survived largely because she was...
View ArticleFormer Oklahoma reserve deputy sentenced to four years for manslaughter
By Lenzy and Krehbiel-BurtonTULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - A former Oklahoma reserve deputy convicted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man being subdued by regular deputies last year was sentenced on...
View ArticleProsecutors sue to recover life insurance held by San Bernardino shooter
By Dan WhitcombLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture action on Tuesday seeking to seize the proceeds of two life insurance policies held by Syed Rizwan Farook, who with...
View ArticleCourt denies motion to reconsider transgender bathroom ruling
By Ian Simpson(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday denied a motion to reconsider its ruling that gave a Virginia transgender high school student access to the bathroom of his gender identity.The...
View ArticleCriminal charges possible in killing of Cincinnati gorilla
CINCINNATI | BY GINNY MCCABEPolice may bring criminal charges over a Cincinnati Zoo incident in which a gorilla was killed to rescue a 4-year-old boy who had fallen into its enclosure, a prosecutor...
View ArticleN.Y. Mets owners reach revised deal with Madoff trustee
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The owners of the New York Mets baseball team have reached a revised agreement with the trustee seeking to recoup money for the victims of Bernard Madoff's fraud that gives them...
View ArticleLas Vegas Sands settles with former CEO of Macau casino unit
By Farah MasterHONG KONG (Reuters) - Sands China Ltd, the Macau casino company controlled by U.S. billionaire and prominent Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, said its parent Las Vegas Sands Corp has...
View ArticlePolish government says will extradite Polanski to U.S. if wins court approval
By Wiktor Szary and Wojciech ZurawskiWARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Poland intends to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 child sex conviction if the supreme court...
View ArticleThousands of U.S. voters in limbo after Kansas toughens election law
By John WhitesidesWICHITA, Kansas (Reuters) - After moving to Kansas, Tad Stricker visited a state motor vehicle office to perform what he thought was the routine task of getting a new driver's license...
View ArticleBrazos River in Texas surges to record level, triggering flooding
By Jim ForsythSAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The Brazos River in Texas surged to its highest level in more than a century on Wednesday, triggering floods in which at least six people have died.Forecasters...
View ArticleFDA issues guidelines to reduce sodium in food products
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidelines to the food industry to reduce the use of sodium in processed food.Average sodium intake in the United States is about 3,400 mg per...
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