'Bridgegate' names can remain secret: U.S. appeals court
By Jonathan Stempel and Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an effort by news media to force prosecutors in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing scandal...
View ArticleU.S. lawmakers want moratorium on commercial flights to Cuba
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two leading critics of President Barack Obama's moves toward normal relations with Cuba introduced legislation on Wednesday seeking to temporarily halt commercial flights between...
View ArticleFerguson, Missouri, protest leader found shot dead in burning car: police
By Laila Kearney(Reuters) - Missouri detectives have not determined a motive or identified any witnesses in an investigation into the death of a man who led protests in the city of Ferguson following...
View ArticleMural depicts Maine governor as Klansman, Mickey Mouse
(Reuters) - A graffiti artist lampooned Maine Governor Paul LePage in a mural depicting the two-term Republican wearing a Ku Klux Klan cape and hood, two weeks after he left a profane voicemail for a...
View ArticleU.S. House to vote on bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudis: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will vote this week on legislation that would allow the families of Sept. 11 attack victims to sue Saudi Arabia's government for damages, a...
View ArticleParty lines split U.S. on terror threat 15 years after 9/11: poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks nearing, Americans are sharply divided on party lines over the threat of a major terrorist attack on the United States, according to...
View ArticleFlorida politicians urge use of Intrexon GM mosquitoes for Zika
(Reuters) - Intrexon Corp said on Wednesday a bipartisan coalition of Florida politicians had urged the U.S. government to step up efforts to fight Zika, including sanctioning the emergency use of the...
View ArticleCuban churches denounce U.S. probe of humanitarian aid project
By Nelson AcostaHAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban Council of Churches denounced the U.S. government on Wednesday for threatening to strip tax exempt status from Pastors for Peace, a group that has delivered...
View ArticleSeeking escape from home, Kansas man robs bank, goes straight to jail
(Reuters) - A Kansas man robbed a bank last week in order to go to jail and avoid his wife, court documents showed. Lawrence John Ripple, 70, told his wife following a fight on Friday that "he'd rather...
View ArticleOklahoma teen gets life in prison for killing five family members
(Reuters) - An Oklahoma teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to murdering his parents and three siblings with weapons including knives and a hatchet, and was sentenced to life in prison without the...
View ArticleU.S. judge halts fracking plan for federal lands in California
By Terry WadeHOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday halted a plan to allow fracking on public lands in central California, saying a federal agency's environmental plan should have taken a "hard...
View ArticleU.S. lawmakers seek compromise on Zika virus funding
By Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers sought on Wednesday to break a logjam over $1.1 billion in funding to combat the Zika virus, with the Senate possibly considering legislation as...
View ArticleOklahoma Sept. 3 earthquake was strongest recorded in state -USGS
(Reuters) - An earthquake in Oklahoma on Sept. 3 was the strongest on record in the state and had a magnitude of 5.8, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Wednesday.The quake, felt in an area stretching...
View ArticleRabbi arrested in New York divorce scheme involving kidnapping, murder
(Reuters) - A rabbi and another Orthodox Jewish man were arrested in New York in connection with a plot to kidnap and murder a man whose wife wanted to divorce him, federal officials said on...
View ArticleColorado couple accused of abusing emaciated, blind, autistic son
By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado couple has been jailed on suspicion of abusing their 17-year-old, blind and autistic son, who was hospitalized weighing just 88 pounds (40 kg) and whose...
View ArticleOakland moves to fire four officers, suspend seven over sex scandal
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The mayor of Oakland, California, said on Wednesday she had moved to fire four police officers and suspend seven more in connection with a sex scandal that has roiled the...
View ArticleExpanded U.S. habitat protection ordered for rare Lynx
By Laura ZuckermanSALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday to enlarge habitat protections in Idaho, Montana and Colorado for the Canada lynx, a rare wild...
View ArticleSex trafficking victims found at illicit Texas social sites, report finds
By Ellen WulfhorstNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 1,000 women and girls have been apparent victims of sex trafficking in illicit cantinas in the United States that largely operate...
View ArticleClosing private detention centers for migrants would pose problems: U.S. agents
By Julia EdwardsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal immigration agents have raised concerns about the U.S. government possibly ending its use of private detention centers used to detain undocumented...
View ArticleProsecutors ask judge to jail ex-Boston mobster charged in witness slay
By Scott MaloneBOSTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors argued on Thursday that an alleged Boston ex-mobster accused of the 1993 murder of a man whose body was found earlier this year should be jailed...
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