Amtrak train braked before fatal Virginia crash: safety agency
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A chartered Amtrak train carrying U.S. Republican lawmakers was traveling at 61 miles per hour (98.17 kilometers per hour) when the engineer applied the brakes before striking a truck on the tracks in Crozet, Virginia, investigat…
Girl in ‘Slenderman’ stabbing is given 40 years in psychiatric care
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A Wisconsin judge committed a 15-year-old girl to 40 years in state psychiatric care on Thursday for her role along with a friend in stabbing a classmate 19 times to placate the fictitious bogeyman “Slenderman.”
Detroit expects to end state oversight this spring
(Reuters) – Detroit expects to emerge soon from three years of state supervision of its post-bankruptcy finances after the city ended its last fiscal year with a budget surplus, a city official said on Thursday.
U.S. government proposes 1.84 percent hike in 2019 payments to Medicare insurers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Thursday proposed an increase of 1.84 percent on average in its 2019 payments to the health insurers that manage Medicare Advantage insurance plans for more than 20 million elderly or disabled people.
New York accuses Insys of deceptively marketing opioid
(Reuters) – Insys Therapeutics Inc’s legal woes deepened on Thursday as New York’s attorney general filed a lawsuit seeking at least $75 million from the company, which he said deceptively promoted a fentanyl-based cancer pain medicine for unsafe uses….
Two shot at Los Angeles school, girl arrested: police
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 12-year-old girl was taken into custody Thursday after a shooting in a Los Angeles middle-school classroom in which five people were injured, including a 15 year-old-boy who was shot in the head but expected to survive, police…
MS-13 gang trial in Boston begins despite Trump remarks
BOSTON (Reuters) – Four suspected members of the notoriously violent MS-13 gang went on trial on Thursday after a federal judge in Boston denied a request to delay the case to ensure that critical remarks made by President Donald Trump this week did no…
Trump urges compromise as Republicans wrestle with immigration
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump urged his fellow Republicans on Thursday to put aside misgivings over letting young “Dreamer” immigrants stay in the United States and pass a bill that includes that measure but also i…
Republicans wrestle with immigration as deadlines loom
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans at a countryside retreat grappled on Thursday with sharp internal divisions over immigration policy, a debate closely enmeshed with a deadline to fund the government that looms next week.
Olympic officials failed to act on Nassar sex abuse claims: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Olympic Committee officials were told in 2015 that an investigation by USA Gymnastics had uncovered possible criminal sexual abuse by team doctor Larry Nassar but they failed to intervene, The Wall Street Journal reported on T…
