California governor signs epinephrine bill, blasts Mylan
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday signed a bill to allow businesses across the state to carry epinephrine auto-injectors, but sharply admonished drugmaker Mylan NL over its recent price increases.
In Pennsylvania Senate race, unfamiliar battle lines on gun rights
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – As he seeks re-election to his U.S. Senate seat this November, Pennsylvania’s Pat Toomey can make an unusual claim. He is the sole Republican nationwide running with the endorsement of top U.S. gun control advocates Gabby Giffo…
Polling places become battleground in U.S. voting rights fight
LINCOLN PARK, Ga. (Reuters) – Louis Brooks, 87, has walked to cast a vote at his neighborhood polling place in Georgia’s predominantly black Lincoln Park neighborhood for five decades. But not this year.
Obama has ‘better things to do’ than comment on birther issue
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said he had better things to do than comment on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s announcement about the so-called birther question over Obama’s citizenship.
Trump scales back tax cuts in new economic plan
(The September 15 story was refiled to correct to $4.4 trillion tax cut, not cost of plan in third paragraph)
U.S. lawmakers ask Wells about taking back bonuses linked to scam case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five Democratic U.S. Senators have asked Wells Fargo if it plans to take back bonuses and other compensation to executives linked to the 2 million phony bank accounts that employees created to meet sales quotas.
U.S. House panel slams former NSA contractor Snowden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S congressional intelligence committee on Thursday issued a scathing report accusing former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of leaking information that “caused tremendous damage” to U.S. national security, …
Clinton visits North Carolina in campaign trail return; Trump up in polls
GREENSBORO, N.C. (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton got back on the campaign trail on Thursday after taking three days off for pneumonia, and the Democratic presidential candidate faced a more challenging political landscape, with Republican rival Donald Trum…
London’s Muslim mayor backs Clinton for U.S. president
CHICAGO (Reuters) – London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, voiced support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday, warning that anti-Muslim views like those espoused by Republican Donald Trump “plays into the hands” of Islamic State.
Trump believes Obama was born in the United States: campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, one of the leaders of the “birther” movement that questioned President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, believes Obama was born in the United States, the Trump campaign said in a stat…
