Oklahoma judge allows law banning abortion pills to take effect
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma judge said on Wednesday he will allow a law that bans abortion-inducing drugs to take effect as planned on Nov. 1, over the objections of abortion rights advocates who said the measure is poor public health policy …
Florida governor’s race a dead heat, poll shows
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott and his challenger for re-election, former Governor Charlie Crist, are locked in a dead heat in their race to run the nation’s largest swing state, poll results released on Wednesday show.
Florida candidates stake out political differences in third debate
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott and former Governor Charlie Crist traded barbs on Tuesday over the minimum wage, the death penalty and racism in the Republican Party in the third and final debate of a close, bitterly contested …
Corruption charges against Alabama House speaker ‘gutter politics’: Congressman
BIRMINGHAM Ala. (Reuters) – A prominent supporter of Alabama state House Speaker Mike Hubbard, a Republican indicted on 23 felony counts of corruption, condemned the charges against him on Tuesday as “Chicago-style gutter politics.”
Former U.S. president candidate Hart to be representative for Northern Ireland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday named former Senator Gary Hart as his representative on Northern Ireland, nearly 30 years after the Democratic politician’s bid for the U.S. presidency was cut short by a sex scandal….
More lawsuits filed against Honda, Takata over air bags
DETROIT (Reuters) – The recall crisis involving Takata-made air bags exploding with too much force and spraying vehicle occupants with metal shrapnel is growing, with two more lawsuits filed over accidents in older Honda cars.
U.S. House panel seeks NHTSA briefing on Takata air bag defects
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee has asked a federal regulator to provide a briefing on its investigation into automobile air bags manufactured by Takata Corp., a committee aide said on Tuesday.
Head of municipal securities office at U.S. SEC to leave agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The director of the office of municipal securities at the Securities and Exchange Commission, John Cross, will leave his post in November to return to the U.S. Treasury Office of Tax Policy, the agency said on Tuesday.
U.S. Republicans look to gain election ground on Ebola
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Ebola has moved to the front of campaign issues before U.S. November elections, as fear and criticism of the government’s response to cases of the virus in the United States opened a new line of Republican attacks against President …
U.S. national security prosecutors shift focus from spies to cyber
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up in the wrong hands, as American business and government agencies face…
