Art of the spin: Trump bankers question his portrayal of financial comeback
By Emily FlitterNEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump, who often says he only likes winners, tells one grand tale of loss: In 1990, he nearly went bankrupt and was forced to ask dozens of banks to whom he...
View ArticleExclusive: Brother of Nice attacker says he sent 'laughing' photo amid crowds
BY TAREK AMARATUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian man who killed at least 84 people in France by moving down Bastille Day revelers with a lorry had phoned his brother hours earlier and sent a picture of...
View ArticleLouisiana gunman targeted and ambushed cops, police say
By Andy SullivanBATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - The black U.S. Marine Corps veteran who shot dead three police officers in Louisiana's capital specifically targeted them, police said on Monday, as the...
View ArticlePolice union: Open carry of guns should be suspended at Republican convention...
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The head of the Cleveland police union on Sunday urged Ohio's governor to declare a state of emergency and to suspend laws allowing the open carrying of firearms during the...
View ArticleThree police officers shot dead in Baton Rouge, gunman killed
By Sam KarlinBATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - Three police officers were shot to death and three others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Sunday, in what authorities said was an ambush less than two...
View ArticleBaton Rouge: A city divided between police and the policed
By Lawrence Hurley and Chris Prentice(Reuters) - Before the killing of three law enforcement officers on Sunday and the fatal shooting of a black man by police earlier this month, Baton Rouge was a...
View ArticleRetired Green Bay Cop: "This is Unbelievable"
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - "It's very emotional when you see something like this going on"Another police ambush.....and a retired Green Bay cop expects changes in police response as a result.Bill Galvin is...
View ArticleCalifornia student among dead in France Bastille Day attack: UC Berkeley
(Reuters) - A California university student who has been missing since Thursday's Bastille Day attack in Nice is among those who died after a truck driver deliberately plowed through a crowd, killing...
View ArticleOpen carry gun rights cause jitters at Republican convention
By Scott Malone and Daniel TrottaCLEVELAND (Reuters) - Even gun rights advocates are questioning whether people should be allowed to carry rifles and handguns during protests at this week's Republican...
View ArticleLocal Delegates Attending RNC
UNDATED (WTAQ) - Two delegates representing Wisconsin's Eighth Congressional District at this week's Republican National Convention took different paths to get to Cleveland.Literally."My wife and I...
View ArticleExclusive: U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart...
By Nandita BoseCHICAGO (Reuters) - OUR Walmart, the American worker group, has taken the unusual step of collaborating with a group of Chinese Wal-Mart workers trying to fight work schedule changes and...
View ArticleBaltimore police lieutenant acquitted in Freddie Gray case
By Donna OwensBALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore prosecutors on Monday failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction against a city police officer for the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, as a...
View ArticleRepublicans to portray Trump as tough leader in troubled times
By Ginger Gibson and Steve HollandCLEVELAND (Reuters) - Republicans meeting this week to anoint Donald Trump as their presidential candidate will try to sell the combative businessman to voters as a...
View ArticleU.S. officials working to restore public trust in police: attorney general
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday strongly condemned the weekend slaying of three Louisiana police officers and said federal authorities were working to help restore...
View ArticleBaton Rouge shooter was ex-Marine who denied ties to any group
BY MARK HOSENBALL AND KEVIN MURPHYWASHINGTON/KANSAS CITY, MO. (Reuters) - The gunman who killed three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday was a former U.S. Marine sergeant who served...
View ArticleUtah reports Zika infection in person who cared for man with virus
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - A caregiver for an elderly Utah man who died while infected with Zika tested positive for the virus but has recovered, health officials said on Monday. The U.S....
View ArticlePresidential candidate Clinton promises to prosecute police killers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton promised on Monday to bring the "full weight of the law" against people who kill police officers if she becomes the next U.S. president after two recent episodes of...
View ArticleU.S. judge rejects plea deal for ex-L.A. sheriff who lied in probe
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday rejected a plea agreement between U.S. prosecutors and former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who had pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in...
View ArticleDivisive Ailes gave conservatives a TV home at Fox News
By Lisa Richwine and Ginger Gibson(Reuters) - When Roger Ailes arrived at Fox News Channel two decades ago, his mandate from media titan Rupert Murdoch was to create a network to compete against...
View ArticleTexans may use postcard, affidavit for voter ID after court faults law
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Some Texas voters may need to show a state postcard listing them on the election roll to cast ballots in November elections after a U.S. appeals court found...
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