Russell Simmons and accuser agree to dismiss rape lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hip hop producer Russell Simmons and an aspiring documentary filmmaker have agreed to dismiss her civil lawsuit claiming that Simmons raped her at his Los Angeles home in 2016, court documents filed on Wednesday showed.
U.S. judge criticizes immigration arrest of Chinese woman in exam scam
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal judge expressed outrage on Wednesday that a U.S. immigration agent came to court to arrest a Chinese woman just as she was sentenced to probation for using a fake passport and visa to take a graduate school entrance exam fo…
Former California policeman arrested ‘Golden State’ serial killer case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – An elderly former police officer was arrested and charged in four murders authorities attributed to the Golden State Killer, a serial criminal suspected of dozens of rapes and slayings that terrorized parts of California …
California voters to decide on $8.9 billion water bonds in November
NEW YORK (Reuters) – California voters will get to decide in a statewide November ballot whether their state should borrow $8.9 billion for water projects, Secretary of State Alex Padilla said on Wednesday.
Suspect charged with capital murder for shooting Dallas officer
(Reuters) – One of the two Dallas police officers shot outside a Home Depot store died on Wednesday and the man suspected of the crime was being held on a capital murder charge, which can bring the death penalty, officials said.
California man arrested in ‘Golden State Killer’ case, suspected in 12 slayings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – An elderly Sacramento-area man has been arrested and charged in four murders attributed by authorities to the Golden State Killer, a serial criminal suspected of dozens of rapes and slayings that terrorized parts of Calif…
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush out of intensive care
(Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been moved from an intensive care unit at Houston Methodist Hospital to a regular patient room as he recovers from an infection that spread to his blood, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
Flowers and grits as Waffle House reopens after Nashville killings
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – The Waffle House restaurant in Nashville where a gunman killed four people reopened on Wednesday for the first time since the weekend attack, filling up with customers ordering breakfasts as a makeshift memorial of flowers …
Yeezy to Disney: Kanye West shatters year-long Twitter silence
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Kanye West said on Wednesday that he had fired his manager and suggested he may run for U.S. president in a frenetic Twitter spree in which he promised four new albums and compared himself to Henry Ford and Walt Disney.
Supreme Court appears ready to uphold Trump’s travel ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised to hand President Donald Trump a huge legal victory, signaling on Wednesday it was likely to uphold his contentious travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority count…
