Oklahoma rocked by one of its strongest earthquakes
By Lenzy Krehbiel-BurtonPAWNEE, Okla. (Reuters) - One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in Oklahoma rattled the area northwest of Pawnee on Saturday, fuelling growing concern about seismic...
View ArticleShooter wounds two in California jail, suspect held
(Reuters) - Two Fresno County, California, sheriff's employees were wounded in a shooting at the county jail on Saturday, and a suspect is in custody, authorities said.The Fresno County Sheriff's...
View ArticleFormer New York mayor David Dinkins sued for alleged hit-and-run
(Reuters) - Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins denied on Saturday an accusation in a lawsuit that he plowed into a bicycle deliveryman while driving on a Manhattan street and then...
View ArticleClown sightings spook South Carolina, perplex police
By Frank McGurty and Chris Prentice(Reuters) - One clown showed up on a roadside in a rain poncho, another waved money at children near woods.The reported sightings of silent, menacing clowns in...
View ArticleMother Teresa to be made saint at Vatican ceremony
By Isla BinnieVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Nobel peace laureate known as the "saint of the gutters" during her lifetime, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on...
View ArticleAtlantic City, NJ, police officer critically wounded, suspect slain
(Reuters) - A suspect was shot dead and an Atlantic City, New Jersey, police officer critically wounded on Saturday when police exchanged gunfire with a group of six men allegedly engaged in criminal...
View ArticleRemains of Minnesota boy missing since 1989 found: authorities
By David BaileyMINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The remains of an 11-year-old boy abducted in 1989 while riding his bicycle near his home in central Minnesota have been found and were officially identified on...
View ArticleMexican soldiers kill ten after highway ambush near U.S. border
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican soldiers killed ten members of a criminal group accused of ambushing a military patrol near the U.S. border in the violent northern state of Tamaulipas on Saturday, the...
View ArticleHelicopter search suspended for missing U.S. climbers in Pakistan
By Syed Raza HassanKARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - An aerial search for two American mountaineers missing in Pakistan was suspended on Sunday, an official said, after an initial flight showed no sign of...
View ArticleL.A. airport terminal evacuated in second security scare in week
By Steve GormanLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One week after a security panic threw Los Angeles International Airport into gridlock, a police traffic stop on Sunday outside an LAX baggage-claim area triggered...
View ArticleObama says more needs to be done to grow wages, shrink inequality
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - More needs to be done to grow wages and shrink inequality in the global economy, United States President Barack Obama said on Monday, at the close of the G20 summit in the...
View ArticleObama defends Kaepernick's right to protest even if message obscured
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was exercising his constitutional right by refusing to stand for the national anthem,...
View ArticleTrump, Clinton court Ohio as White House race enters final 2 months
By Steve Holland and Jeff MasonCANFIELD, Ohio/CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton opened a final two-month sprint to the Nov. 8 election on Monday with the Republican presidential...
View ArticleGunfire kills two at New York's Caribbean street party
By Laila KearneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the...
View ArticleTrump raises possibility of eventual legal status for illegal immigrants
By Steve HollandYOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (Reuters) - In a new twist to his immigration proposals, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held out the possibility of legal status for millions of...
View ArticlePuerto Rico debt fix unlikely to resemble Detroit's
By Nick BrownNEW YORK (Reuters) - The federal appointees tapped to help map Puerto Rico's economic future are technocrats more than political actors, and that could make the U.S. territory's fiscal...
View ArticleU.S. conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92
By Bill TrottWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Phyllis Schlafly, who became a "founding mother" of the modern U.S. conservative movement by battling feminists in the 1970s and working tirelessly to defeat the...
View ArticleNo. 2 House Democrat opposes temporary gov't spending bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, on Tuesday said he opposed any temporary spending bill for the federal government that lasted beyond December.Members...
View ArticleStarbucks to serve stevia-based sweetener in select cafes
(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp, the world's largest coffee chain, said it would serve its first stevia-based, zero-calorie sweetener at select cafes in the U.S. and Canada.The "Nature Sweet" packets by...
View ArticleCompany agrees to temporarily halt some North Dakota pipeline work
By Julia HarteWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Native American tribal chairman said his people were "disappointed" that a company agreed on Tuesday to temporarily halt construction of an oil pipeline only in...
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