Texas to execute ‘tourniquet killer’ for serial rape and murder
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas plans to execute on Wednesday a man convicted of raping and murdering five children and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims.
U.S. senators reach bipartisan deal on Obamacare, Trump indicates support
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators on Tuesday reached a bipartisan agreement to shore up Obamacare for two years by reviving federal subsidies for health insurers that President Donald Trump planned to scrap, and the president indicated his suppo…
Kentucky city removes two Confederate statues
(Reuters) – Statues of two leaders of the Confederacy will be moved from public places in Lexington, Kentucky, to a cemetery where the men they represent are buried, an action that began quietly on Tuesday in the midst of a national debate about memori…
Crews push to contain California fires, search for bodies
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) – Crews fought their way across rugged, steep terrain on Tuesday in a push to gain full control of the deadliest wildfires in California history, as search-and-rescue teams picked through an ashy moonscape of destroyed home…
NFL policy on anthem kneeling unchanged, despite Trump rebuke
NEW YORK (Reuters) – National Football League officials weighed the fervor of players protesting racism against U.S. President Donald Trump’s anger at their autumn meeting on Tuesday with supporters of the players kneeling outside in solidarity.
Las Vegas gunman’s estate could offer rare redress for victims
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Victims of mass shootings in the United States often win little or no damages from perpetrators but the Las Vegas massacre may be different because the shooter is thought to have been a wealthy man, lawyers said.
Chicago Aviation Dept fires two officers involved in dragging man off flight
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Chicago Department of Aviation has fired two security officers for their roles in the forcible removal of a passenger on a United Airlines flight in April, an incident that provoked international outrage.
White man charged with hate crime in black Army officer’s murder in Maryland
(Reuters) – A white man was indicted on a hate crime charge on Tuesday in the stabbing death of a newly commissioned black U.S. Army officer on the University of Maryland campus in May, a county prosecutor said.
CIA says mistakenly ‘shredded’ Senate torture report then did not
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Central Intelligence Agency thought for months that it had mistakenly shredded a massive U.S. Senate report on its use of waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” before suddenly discovering that its copy h…
Search on for dozens missing in California wildfires as evacuees return home
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (Reuters) – Search-and-rescue teams in Northern California combed through the debris of burned-out houses on Tuesday for dozens of people still missing in the state’s deadliest wildfires, which have killed at least 41 people and dest…
