Oklahoma Senate takes up tax hike to halt week-long teachers’ strike
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The Oklahoma Senate is set to debate a tax hike package on Friday to raise education funds in the hope of halting a week-long strike by its public school teachers, who are some of the lowest-paid educators in the country.
McGregor charged with assault in New York after rampage
(Reuters) – Conor McGregor has been charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief following a rampage at a UFC press event in Brooklyn on Thursday, the New York Police Department has said.
Virgin Galactic tests rocket ship, three years after fatal accident
(Reuters) – Richard Branson’s company Virgin Galactic conducted a supersonic test flight over the Sierra Nevada mountains of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship on Thursday, the company said, three years after a fatal accident on an earlier version …
Trump to tap No. 2 official to run U.S. auto-safety agency
(Reuters) – The White House said late Thursday that President Donald Trump intends to nominate a top auto-safety agency official to run the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as regulators debate reducing planned fuel efficiency increases t…
McGregor surrenders to NY police after media day chaos
NEW YORK (Reuters) – UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor surrendered on Thursday, a police spokesman said, after he was accused of attacking a bus carrying fighters leaving a media event ahead of UFC223 this weekend.
New York judge awards Nazi-looted artworks to Holocaust victim’s heirs in key test case
(Reuters) – A New York judge on Thursday awarded title of two Nazi-looted drawings by noted Austrian painter Egon Schiele to a Holocaust victim’s heirs in what art experts viewed as a key test case of a U.S. law designed to ease the recovery of such st…
Muslims given say as New York City drafts surveillance guidelines
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City has pledged to listen to suggestions by Muslim groups when it drafts new policies for investigating political activity, part of a settlement over police surveillance conducted after the 2001 World Trade Center attack….
Atlanta takes down water department website two weeks after cyber attack
(Reuters) – Atlanta took down its water department website indefinitely on Thursday, two weeks after a ransomware cyber attack tore through the city’s computer systems in one of the most disruptive hacks ever to strike a U.S. local government.
New York attorney general probing Brooklyn police shooting death
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York State attorney general’s office said on Thursday it would investigate the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed black man in Brooklyn after he pointed a metal pipe at officers that they believed was a gun.
Thousands of Massachusetts cases tied to drug chemist get dismissed
BOSTON (Reuters) – A justice on Massachusetts’ top court on Thursday ordered the dismissal of 7,690 drug cases because of their link to a former forensic chemist who authorities said for eight years stole drug evidence and worked in a state lab under t…
