Security firm that employed Orlando club killer fined for inaccurate forms
(Reuters) - The security company that employed Omar Mateen, the man who in June killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was fined $151,400 for providing inaccurate psychological...
View ArticleWoman kissed by sailor in famed photo at World War Two's end dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York's Times Square in a photograph symbolizing the end of World War Two, has died at age 92, media reports said on...
View ArticleNative Americans celebrate pause of N. Dakota pipeline, vow to fight on
By Dave ThompsonCANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) - Native Americans protesting construction of a North Dakota oil pipeline near land they consider sacred on Saturday quietly celebrated the U.S. government's...
View ArticleDozens injured after porch collapses in Connecticut
(Reuters) - Dozens of people were injured on Saturday after a porch crowded with partygoers collapsed in Hartford near Trinity College, authorities said.Between 30 and 40 people were being treated for...
View ArticleFamilies remember 9/11 victims 15 years after attacks
By Melissa FaresNEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans remembered the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday at a ceremony marking 15 years, with the recital of their names, tolling church bells and a...
View ArticleSuffering from pneumonia, Clinton falls ill at 9/11 memorial, cancels...
By Amanda BeckerNEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton is suffering from pneumonia, the Democratic presidential candidate's personal doctor said on Sunday after she fell ill at a Sept. 11 memorial, an...
View ArticleA raised fist, more kneeling players as NFL anthem protest spreads
By Curtis SkinnerSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters raised his fist and several Miami Dolphins players knelt during performances of the U.S. national anthem on...
View ArticleMiss Arkansas crowned Miss America 2017 in pageant's 96th year
(Reuters) - Savvy Shields, a college student from Arkansas, won the annual Miss America pageant on Sunday after impressing judges with a jazz dance routine and her answer to a question about her take...
View ArticleSix shot, one dead, at Alabama rally: media reports
(Reuters) - Six people were shot, one of them fatally, when gunfire broke out after a rally at a Birmingham public housing project on Sunday, media reports said.The shooting occurred at the Gate City...
View ArticleFive children, four adults die in Tennessee house fire
By Laila Kearney(Reuters) - Five children and four adults were killed early on Monday in a Memphis, Tennessee house fire that was the city's deadliest in nearly a century, officials said.All of the...
View ArticleJury selection starts again in Georgia hot-car child death trial
By Rich McKayATLANTA (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday for the second time this year in the murder trial of a Georgia man who prosecutors say intentionally left his toddler son to die in a hot...
View ArticleIslamic State-linked cases in U.S. number 110 since 2013: Justice Department
By Julia EdwardsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin said on Monday that more than 110 people have been publicly charged in federal court since late 2013 on counts related...
View ArticleConnecticut man pleads guilty to scaling White House fence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Connecticut man pleaded guilty on Monday to climbing over the White House fence on Thanksgiving Day last year draped in a U.S. flag, federal prosecutors said.Joseph Caputo, 23,...
View ArticleU.S. man charged with sexual abuse of Nepali boys amid fears trafficking rising
By Gopal SharmaKATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Nepal have charged an American man of luring boys from villages and taking them to the capital for sex, an official said on Monday,...
View ArticleObama would veto bill allowing 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama would veto a bill passed by both houses of Congress that would allow survivors and families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue the government of...
View ArticlePeugeot plans LA car-sharing operation with Bollore: CEO
PARIS (Reuters) - France's PSA will launch car-sharing services in Los Angeles in partnership with Bollore Group, Chief Executive Carlos Tavares said on Monday, as the maker of Peugeot, Citroen and DS...
View ArticleBerkshire is accused in New York lawsuit of workers' compensation 'siphoning'
By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc has been sued by a New York bicycle courier company over an alleged illegal scheme to cheat employers buying workers' compensation...
View ArticleMarathon Galveston Bay contractor killed in scaffold collapse
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A contractor working for Marathon Petroleum Corp's Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas was killed on Monday in the collapse of scaffolding under construction at a dock in the port of...
View ArticleCalifornia first U.S. state to promise overtime to farmworkers
By Sharon BernsteinSACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California will become the first U.S. state to require farmers to pay overtime to field workers and fruit pickers under a bill signed on Monday by...
View ArticleEngine failure led to foot-long hole in Southwest airliner: agency
(Reuters) - An engine failure on a Southwest Airlines Co jet on Aug. 27 released debris that tore a 5 inch by 16 inch (13 cm by 41 cm) hole in the plane before it made a safe emergency landing in...
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