After protests, U.S. halts North Dakota pipeline near tribal lands
By Ruthy Munoz and Dave ThompsonWASHINGTON/BISMARCK, North Dakota (Reuters) - The Obama administration stepped into a dispute on Friday over a planned oil pipeline in North Dakota that has angered...
View ArticleU.S. returns to 1 World Trade Center 15 years after attacks
By Hilary RussNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. federal government on Friday marked its return to the rebuilt 1 World Trade Center, moving its New York City offices back to Lower Manhattan 15 years after...
View ArticleNFL's Sept. 11 plans may collide with anthem protests
By Frank Pingue(Reuters) - The NFL said on Friday it will commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States during games on Sunday, the same day when some players plan to...
View ArticleU.S. Senate committee chair: Mylan's response on EpiPen price hike 'incomplete'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee probing Mylan NV's EpiPen price hike on Friday said its response to his query was "incomplete," and called on the drugmaker to...
View ArticleU.S. TV producer seeks to prove theory in D.B. Cooper mystery
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The producer of a History Channel documentary on the D.B. Cooper skyjacking 45 years ago is suing the FBI for release of its case files in an effort to prove...
View ArticleU.S. Judge allows North Dakota pipeline construction to proceed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday allowed construction to proceed on a crude oil pipeline in North Dakota, denying a request from Native American tribes to enjoin the U.S. Army Corps of...
View ArticleSeven officers to face charges in Oakland, Calif. police sex scandal
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Seven current and former San Francisco Bay Area law enforcement officers will face charges in connection with a sex scandal that has rocked the Oakland Police Department,...
View ArticleU.S., California reach deal on education for English learners
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government said it reached a deal on Friday with California education authorities to ensure language instruction opportunities for the roughly 1.4 million students...
View ArticlePipeline protesters hurt and helped on same day
WASHINGTON, DC (KELO-AM) The Dakota Access oil pipeline on Friday won a critical court victory, when a federal judge in Washington DC ruled against a temporary halt to construction near the North...
View ArticleImages of allegedly overdosed couple in Ohio with boy in car go viral
By Dan Whitcomb(Reuters) - Pictures taken by a small-town Ohio police department showing a couple allegedly overdosed on heroin in their car, the woman's son ignored in the back, circulated widely on...
View ArticleDOJ Appeals Ruling Overturning Dassey Decision
MADISON, WI (Wisconsin Radio Network) - The state Department of Justice says it will appeal a federal court decision that overturned the conviction of a teen accused of helping his uncle kill...
View ArticleNew Jersey man gets new trial in Clementi cyberbullying case
By Gina Cherelus and Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey appeals court on Friday threw out the conviction of a former Rutgers University student who used a webcam to record his roommate kissing...
View ArticleLawsuit over NYC Marathon lottery is settled
By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Marathon organizers on Friday settled a lawsuit by runners who said their use of a lottery, in which nonrefundable fees were charged, to decide who...
View ArticleWisconsin appeals overturned conviction in 'Making a Murderer' case
(Reuters) - Wisconsin on Friday appealed a federal judge's ruling to overturn the conviction of one of two Wisconsin men serving life sentences for the 2005 slaying of a freelance photographer in a...
View ArticleChelsea Manning announces hunger strike over treatment in prison
By Dan Whitcomb(Reuters) - U.S. soldier Chelsea Manning, serving a 35-year prison term for passing classified files to WikiLeaks, said on Friday that she would refuse to eat until given help for her...
View ArticleAppeals Court blocks Kansas, Alabama, Georgia on voter ID rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday blocked an effort by Alabama, Georgia and Kansas for voters to furnish proof of citizenship when registering at the polls, which opponents say...
View ArticleCalifornia nears adoption of energy-saving rules for computers
By Steve GormanLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California regulators moved a step closer on Friday to the first mandatory U.S. energy efficiency standards for computers and monitors, gadgets that account for 3...
View ArticleHomeowners sue California's Fresno, saying lead in water supply
(Reuters) - Five homeowners filed a lawsuit against Fresno, California on Friday, accusing the city of letting dangerous levels of lead and other toxins into the water supply and failing to alert the...
View ArticleReport details horror, heroism during San Bernardino shooting
(Reuters) - A report into last year's shooting rampage by a husband and wife in San Bernardino, California, reveals how three county workers battled to stop the shooters as they sprayed bullets into a...
View ArticleWould-be Reagan assassin released from psychiatric hospital
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. was released from a psychiatric hospital on Saturday, media reports said, 35 years after he shot U.S. President Ronald...
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