Bush funeral to hark back to ‘kinder, gentler’ era in U.S. politics
Former President George H.W. Bush’s full life and decades of public service will be celebrated on Wednesday at a funeral expected to be a remembrance of an era that many Americans recall as a time of less contentious politics.
Republican declares win in Georgia elections chief race, Democrat refuses to concede
Republican Brad Raffensperger appeared poised to become Georgia’s new elections chief but his Democratic opponent John Barrow declined to concede the race early on Wednesday, saying that every vote has not yet been counted.
Republican declares win in Georgia elections chief race
Republican Brad Raffensperger appeared poised to defeat Democrat John Barrow on Tuesday to become Georgia’s new elections chief, holding the office for his party after critics accused Georgia Republicans this fall of suppressing minority voting rights….
Video shows migrant kids dropped over Arizona border fence
A video showing young children being dropped by a suspected smuggler from an 18-foot (5.5-meter) border fence in Arizona into the arms of their family was released by U.S. Border Patrol on Monday.
Texas executes member of ‘Texas 7’ for policeman’s murder
Texas on Tuesday executed a member of the “Texas 7,” a group of inmates who killed a police officer at a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve in 2000 after they escaped a maximum security prison days earlier.
U.S. Supreme Court rejects petitions to stay execution of ‘Texas 7’ member: court documents
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a series of petitions to stay the execution of a man who was convicted of killing a police officer on Christmas Eve of 2000 along six other inmates after they escaped prison, court documents showed.
Medtronic to pay $51 million to resolve U.S. medical device probes
Medtronic Plc said on Tuesday it would pay $50.9 million to resolve U.S. Justice Department probes into how companies it later acquired marketed medical devices, including one meant to treat a vascular defect in the brain.
Firearms cause sharp drop in life expectancy for black Americans: study
Guns caused the life expectancy of black Americans to drop by more than four years from 2000 to 2016, twice as much as the decline in life expectancy of white Americans during the same period, according to an academic study published on Tuesday.
Medtronic units to pay $31 million to resolve U.S. medical device probes
Two companies now owned by Medtronic Plc will pay $30.9 million to resolve claims they marketed a medical device meant to treat a vascular defect in the brain for unapproved purposes and paid kickbacks to hospitals to get them to use a second product.
U.S. charges four in ‘Panama Papers’ tax evasion scheme
U.S. prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have charged four people with taking part in a decades-long scheme to evade U.S. taxes that came to light after a massive leak of offshore financial data known as the “Panama Papers.”
