Turkish gold trader testifies on bank executive’s role in sham food sales
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Turkish-Iranian gold trader testifying for U.S. prosecutors in a New York court on Friday gave his most detailed account yet of how he claims an executive of Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank devised key parts of a plan to launder mo…
New York Times cuts number of free articles on website
(Reuters) – The New York Times on Friday reduced the number of free articles it will offer most non-subscribers to five from 10 in an effort to make more money from readers.
Vermont woman charged with making deadly poison ricin in retirement home
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Vermont woman who planned to poison herself manufactured the deadly ricin substance in the retirement home where she lived and tested it on her fellow residents, federal officials said in court papers.
Review faults police response to Charlottesville far-right rally
(Reuters) – Charlottesville authorities failed to protect public safety and free speech during a white nationalist rally over Confederate statues that turned deadly in the Virginia college town in August, an independent review said on Friday.
U.S. prosecutors could take Shkreli’s Wu Tang Clan album, Picasso
(Reuters) – Martin Shkreli, dubbed the “pharma bro” for exploits such as jacking up the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent, should forfeit $7.4 million, including his Wu Tang Clan album and a Picasso painting, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday….
Supreme Court’s cake case pits gay rights versus Christian faith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When conservative Christian baker Jack Phillips in 2012 politely but firmly told Colorado gay couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig he would not make them a cake to celebrate their wedding, it triggered a chain of events that wi…
Illegal immigrant acquitted of murder in San Francisco, Trump slams verdict
(Reuters) – An illegal immigrant from Mexico was acquitted of murder and manslaughter by a San Francisco jury on Thursday in the fatal shooting of a woman that Donald Trump used as a rallying cry against “sanctuary cities” during his presidential campa…
White House staff exits likely as Trump’s first year draws to a close: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s expected exit from the Trump administration is one of many staff changes likely as President Donald Trump nears the end of his first year in office, with sources saying top economic advise…
Trump urged Senate Republicans to drop panel’s Russia probe: NYT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans over the summer to end the Senate Intelligence Committee’s probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, including the panel’s chairman, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing several lawmakers and aides.
Illegal immigrant acquitted of murder in politically charged San Francisco trial
(Reuters) – An illegal immigrant from Mexico was acquitted of murder and manslaughter by a San Francisco jury on Thursday in the fatal shooting of a woman that Donald Trump used as a rallying cry against “sanctuary cities” during his presidential campa…
