Christie administration held Sandy relief ‘hostage’ over project -mayor
(Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s administration threatened to withhold Superstorm Sandy relief funds from a flooded town unless a redevelopment plan Christie favored was quickly approved, the mayor of Hoboken said on Saturday.
U.S. man pleads guilty to sending ricin to Obama, two others
JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) – A Mississippi man accused of sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, and then pinning them on an Elvis impersonator, pleaded guilty in U.S. court and agreed to a 25-year jail s…
Obama bans spying on leaders of U.S. allies, scales back NSA program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama banned U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends and allies on Friday and began reining in the vast collection of Americans’ phone data in a series of limited reforms triggered by Edward Snowden’s …
U.S. states could turn to firing squads if execution drugs scarce
(Reuters) – Lawmakers for at least two U.S. states say they should conduct executions by firing squad if opposition to capital punishment by pharmaceutical companies makes it hard to obtain drugs for lethal injections.
Obama takes swipe at Snowden in spy reform speech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday took a swipe at Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy contractor whose revelations about American surveillance practices tarnished relations with foreign allies and prompted reforms in Washington.
U.S. chides UNESCO for putting Jewish exhibit on hold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States on Friday criticized UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural arm, for postponing an exhibition about Jews and the Holy Land due to complaints from Arab member states.
Top Christie aides subpoenaed in New Jersey bridge probe
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twenty New Jersey officials, including top aides to Governor Chris Christie, were served with subpoenas on Friday as the state assembly begins its investigation into a massive bridge traffic jam that was apparently politically moti…
U.S. man pleads guilty to sending ricin to Obama, two others
JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) – A Mississippi man accused of sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and two other public officials, and pinning them on an Elvis impersonator, pleaded guilty in U.S. court and agreed to a 25-year jail senten…
Senator Coburn leaving Congress as he battles cancer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who crossed the aisle in 2005 became friends with a newly elected colleague named Barack Obama, says he will leave office in December, two years before his term ends. He is battling canc…
Exclusive: Senior U.S. senators push South Sudan leaders on violence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior members of the influential U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged South Sudan’s leaders on Friday to stop violence threatening to spiral into civil war in a country that has received billions of dollars in U.S. taxp…
