NBA pulls All-Star Game from Charlotte over transgender law
By Frank Pingue(Reuters) - The NBA is moving its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina, given its objections to a state law decried as discriminatory against the lesbian, gay, bisexual...
View ArticleArab-American bias lawsuit against JPMorgan can proceed: U.S. judge
By Dena AubinNEW YORK (Reuters) - An Arab-American family whose business and personal bank accounts were closed in 2014 without explanation can sue JPMorgan Chase for racial discrimination, a federal...
View ArticleTexan gets one-and-a-half years in prison for running bitcoin Ponzi scheme
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A Texas man was sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison on Thursday for operating a bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say resulted in the first U.S....
View ArticleEx-Western Asset employee avoids prison for computer intrusion
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A former employee of Western Asset Management Co avoided prison Thursday for repeatedly accessing an ex-supervisor's email account after leaving the financial firm,...
View ArticleU.S. judge suspends Michigan's ban on straight-ticket voting
(Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily suspended a Michigan law that abolished straight-ticket voting - the practice of using one mark to vote for all candidates from one party - that was...
View ArticleDoctors devise care plan for babies as Zika threat looms in U.S.
By Julie SteenhuysenCHICAGO (Reuters) - As U.S. public health officials try to determine whether Zika has arrived in the country, doctors are establishing guidelines on how to care for the rising...
View ArticleDiscrimination against Muslims an affront of American values: Obama
By Ayesha RascoeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday praised the contributions of Muslim immigrants to the United States, saying any effort to discriminate against the Islamic...
View ArticleJudge shrinks Madoff trustee $905 million lawsuit versus Florida firm
By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday narrowed a $905 million lawsuit filed by the trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims against executives who ran...
View ArticleMan charged in fatal shooting of Kansas police officer
By Kevin MurphyKANSAS CITY, Kan. (Reuters) - A 20-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer has been charged with capital murder, prosecutors said on...
View ArticleForecasts of convention bonanza fall short for Cleveland businesses
By Scott Malone and Daniel TrottaCLEVELAND (Reuters) - Along a cobblestoned row of restaurants near the Cleveland arena hosting this week's Republican National Convention, the crowds on the sidewalk...
View ArticleFormer California police officer arrested on suspicion of rape
By Sharon BernsteinSACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A former California police officer was arrested on Thursday and booked on suspicion of 22 felonies related to the rape and sexual battery of five women...
View ArticleExclusive: Possible early North Korean nuclear site found - report
WASHINGTON | BY JONATHAN LANDAYA U.S. policy institute said it may have located a secret facility used by North Korea in the early stages of building its program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons,...
View ArticleMental age of accused Arizona 'jihadist' is less than 13, parents say
By David SchwartzPHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona teenager jailed on charges of plotting to bomb a public building suffers from autism, with the mental capacity of someone younger than 13 and a "limited...
View ArticleHigh water mark: active marijuana ingredient found in U.S. town well
By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - Residents of a small farming community in eastern Colorado have been warned to avoid drinking the town’s water after THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, was...
View ArticleGlitzy parties, bowling: Scenes from the other Republican convention
By Emily FlitterCLEVELAND (Reuters) - Bourbon flowed, a jazz band played, and pink and violet lights bathed the vaulted stone ceilings at a party thrown by a liquor producers' lobby group on Monday for...
View ArticleTrump vows law and order if elected, sharply criticizes Clinton
CLEVELAND | BY STEVE HOLLANDDonald Trump accused Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of a legacy of "death, destruction, terrorism and weakness" as U.S. secretary of state and vowed to be tough on crime...
View ArticleA carnival of contrasting views near Cleveland's Republican convention
By Scott Malone and Daniel TrottaCLEVELAND (Reuters) - Stevedore Crawford strode onto the plaza at Cleveland's Public Square, not far from this week's Republican National Convention, pulled two...
View ArticleChicago police officer shot, suspect killed in exchange of gunfire
(Reuters) - A Chicago police officer was wounded and a suspect was fatally shot on Thursday when police responded to an man acting erratically on the city's South side, police said. When officers...
View ArticleGerman-Iranian gunman kills nine in Munich, then himself: police
By Jens Hack, Joern Poltz and Karin StroheckerMUNICH (Reuters) - An 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening,...
View ArticleU.S. asks phone companies to provide 'robocall' blocking technology
By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Friday pressed major U.S. phone companies to take immediate steps to make technology that blocks...
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