U.S. gun background checks in July fell most since 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Background checks related to U.S. firearm purchases suffered their deepest quarterly decline in over three years in July, suggesting a sales slump despite price discounts aimed at improving customer demand following President …
Yemenis, Iranians sue U.S. State Department, ask for visas to be processed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dozens of Yemenis and Iranians who won the chance to immigrate to the United States sued the U.S. State Department on Friday for not processing their visa applications after President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban was reinsta…
Chicago police prepare to interrogate suspects in Illinois stabbing
(Reuters) – Chicago police were preparing to interrogate two university officials who were arrested in California on Friday and charged with a fatal July stabbing that investigators believe stemmed from a domestic dispute.
‘Pharma bro’ Shkreli convicted of fraud in U.S. court, assails ‘witch hunt’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. jury convicted Martin Shkreli, the brash former drug company and hedge fund executive, on Friday of defrauding investors in hedge funds he ran years before he gained fame for jacking up the price of a drug.
Court overturns Indiana death sentence in ‘stun belt’ case
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the death sentence for a man forced to wear a “stun belt” during the penalty phase of his trial for a 1996 triple murder in Indiana.
Kansas City IRS staff sickened after contact with suspicious package: media
(Reuters) – About 10 people at a Kansas City, Missouri, IRS building were sickened with symptoms including chest pains and vomiting after they came into contact on Friday with a suspicious package delivered to their office, local news reports said.
U.S. investigators focus on gas meter in fatal Minneapolis school blast
(Reuters) – U.S. safety investigators on Friday began their weeklong inquiry into a deadly explosion at a Christian private school in Minneapolis, including examining whether workers moving a gas meter could have caused the blast.
U.S. judge dismisses lawsuit over Buffett’s See’s ‘kosher’ chocolate
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit claiming that See’s Candies, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, sold Valentine’s Day chocolates that were mislabeled as kosher.
U.S. court tosses murder conviction of ex-Blackwater guard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday threw out the murder conviction of an ex-Blackwater security guard and ordered three of his former colleagues to be re-sentenced in the high-profile prosecution stemming from the massacre of 14 u…
Rwandan who sought asylum after genocide faces U.S. fraud charge
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Rwandan man who sought asylum in the United States claiming he fled the African nation’s 1994 genocide was charged by U.S. prosecutors on Friday with lying about having been part of the political party that led the killing.
