FINRA accuses broker of inappropriate trades, charging retiree $376,000
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority accused a New York broker of unfairly charging a 72-year-old retiree $376,000 in fees and commissions after he made repeated...
View ArticleSEC throws out short-selling fraud case against banker
By Suzanne Barlyn(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in a rare reversal of a decision by one of its in-house judges, said on Friday it threw out a case against a Maryland-based...
View ArticleU.S. sailor gets one year in prison over nuclear submarine photos
By Nate Raymond(Reuters) - A U.S. Navy sailor was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison for illegally taking photos inside restricted areas of a nuclear submarine and then trying to impede an...
View ArticleU.S. Justice Dept to send team to Turkey for Gulen probe: Bloomberg
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department will dispatch a team to Turkey in coming days to pursue allegations by the Turkish government of criminal activity by Fethullah Gulen, Bloomberg news...
View ArticleTravelers former CEO Jay Fishman dies at 63
(Reuters) - Jay Fishman, chairman and former chief executive of property and casualty insurer Travelers Cos Inc, died on Friday.Fishman, 63, disclosed in 2014 that he had a neuromuscular condition and...
View ArticleCalifornia barbershop settles suit brought by transgender man
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Southern California barbershop has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against the business by a transgender man who said he was denied service and told "we don't cut women's...
View ArticleDemocrats fear hackers targeted tight Florida races for latest data leaks
By Mark Hosenball and Ginger GibsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Democrats are growing increasingly worried that the hackers who made public leaked documents this week were trying to sabotage the...
View ArticleMigrant mother, son sue U.S. over treatment in detention
By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Honduran mother and young son have filed a lawsuit against U.S. authorities, claiming they were mistreated in detention facilities after they...
View ArticleTexas appeals court halts execution of man who did not kill anyone
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday halted an execution planned for next week of a man convicted as an accomplice to a murder he did not commit in a...
View ArticleU.S. judge seeks criminal contempt charges against Arizona sheriff
By David SchwartzPHOENIX (Reuters) - A federal judge recommended on Friday that prosecutors bring criminal contempt charges against Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio, finding that the controversial sheriff had...
View ArticleConservatives split over U.S. land transfers to Western states
By Eric M. JohnsonELLIOTT STATE FOREST, Ore. (Reuters) - Every time Dean Finnerty sees the locked neon-yellow gate and "No Trespassing" sign deep in Oregon's Elliott State Forest, he bristles at the...
View ArticleEx-U.S. Navy SEAL author agrees to pay $6.8 million to government: NY Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. Navy SEAL who wrote a book about the daring operation on Osama Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan has agreed to forfeit $6.8 million in book royalties and speaking...
View ArticleSix Notre Dame football players arrested in Indiana
(Reuters) - Six University of Notre Dame football players were arrested in Indiana overnight, five on suspicion of marijuana possession and the sixth after an altercation at a local bar, officials and...
View ArticleDebris piles mark the start of long road to recovery in flooded Louisiana
By Sam KarlinBATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - Renee Deal still hopes to salvage the wedding photo album placed out to dry on Saturday in the carport of her flood-ravaged house in southern Louisiana. Inside...
View ArticleTurkey's Erdogan blames child bomber for attack that killed 51
By Osman Orsal and Umit OzdalGAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 carried out the attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday that killed at...
View ArticleNew law cuts English language requirement for NYC cab drivers
By Chris PrenticeNEW YORK (Reuters) - The average New York City taxi driver may still be sassy, but will not be required to speak English any longer.The change is the result of a new law that Mayor...
View ArticleSuspect in Alabama quintuple murder kidnapped girlfriend, police say
By Joseph Ax(Reuters) - A 27-year-old Mississippi man murdered five people, including a pregnant woman, at a home in rural Alabama early on Saturday before kidnapping his estranged girlfriend and a...
View ArticleFed close to hitting job and inflation targets: Fischer
(Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is close to hitting its targets for full employment and 2 percent inflation, the Fed's No. 2 policymaker said on Sunday in comments that did not address when the U.S....
View ArticleThirteen people wounded in shooting at Connecticut house party
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thirteen people were shot and wounded when at least two shooters fired into a house party from a neighboring backyard in Bridgeport, Connecticut, early on Sunday, local police...
View ArticleHealth official warns Zika could spread across U.S. Gulf
By Chris Prentice(Reuters) - One of the top U.S. public health officials on Sunday warned that the mosquito-borne Zika virus could extend its reach across the U.S. Gulf Coast after officials last week...
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