U.S. health agency’s ex-director charged with groping woman
A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who helped contain the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, was arrested and charged with sexual abuse on Friday after being accused of groping a woman last year.
Former head of U.S. health agency arrested on sexual abuse charge
A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who helped contain the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, was arrested in New York City on Friday after being accused of groping a woman last year, police said.
Par Pacific Hawaii refinery shut ahead of hurricane: spokesman
Par Pacific Holdings shut its 93,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery at Kapolei, Hawaii, on Friday as Hurricane Lane began battering the chain of islands, a company spokesman said.
Police accuse three over toppled Confederate statue
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill police accused three people of violations related to the toppling of a statue of a Confederate soldier on campus, a university police spokesman said on Friday.
Former CDC director Frieden arrested for sexual abuse
Thomas Frieden, a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was arrested in New York City on Friday on charges of sexual abuse, forcible touching and harassment of a woman last year, the New York Police Department sa…
U.S. calls foreign mail system unfair in surprise win for Amazon
The U.S. State Department on Friday said it would push for foreign postal carriers to pay the U.S. Postal Service more to deliver small parcels within the United States, taking up a longtime complaint by Amazon.com , UPS and others who have alleged th…
Former Pennsylvania altar boy says he stole from church to avenge abuse
Mike McDonnell was an altar boy who loved to sing Latin hymns at his church in suburban Philadelphia, but his Roman Catholic faith became a source of torment at age 12 when he woke up to find a priest molesting him in the vacation bed the clergyman for…
Torrential rain and howling winds lash Hawaii as Hurricane Lane nears
Hurricane Lane spun through the Pacific toward Hawaii on Friday, losing power and slowing as it weakened to a Category 2 storm that brought raging surf, torrential rain and catastrophic flooding to the Big Island.
Former U.S. CDC director Frieden arrested for sexual abuse
Thomas Frieden, a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was arrested in New York City on Friday on charges of sexual abuse, forcible touching and harassment of a woman last year, the New York Police Department sa…
Georgia blocks move to close voting sites in mostly black county
A Georgia elections board on Friday blocked a bid to close most polling places in a largely black county after critics called it a thinly-veiled attempt to undercut Stacey Abrams, who could become the country’s first female, African-American governor.
