Meat processor settles with ABC in ‘pink slime’ defamation case
(Reuters) – Beef Products Inc has settled its closely watched defamation lawsuit against the ABC television network over news reports on its processed beef product that critics dubbed “pink slime,” both companies said on Wednesday.
Man smashes Arkansas Capitol’s new Ten Commandments monument
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A newly installed Ten Commandments monument on Arkansas state Capitol grounds was destroyed on Wednesday by a man police said drove his vehicle into the granite slab and posted the incident on Facebook.
Two supervisors suspended after New York subway crash
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two New York City subway supervisors were suspended without pay on Wednesday, a day after a derailment in Manhattan that injured 34 people and was blamed on a piece of unsecured replacement track, the transit authority said.
Prosecutor, governor spar over death penalty in Florida’s top court
(Reuters) – Florida Supreme Court justices on Wednesday asked whether an Orlando prosecutor removed from first-degree murder cases by Governor Rick Scott had the discretion to adopt a policy not to seek the death penalty in her district.
Yes he can: Obama returns to Indonesia for family vacation
JAKARTA (Reuters) – From white water rafting in Bali to visiting temples on Java, former U.S. President Barack Obama’s private family holiday is being closely tracked in Indonesia where he spent four years as a child.
Suspect in Michigan airport stabbing to remain in detention
FLINT, Mich. (Reuters) – A man charged with stabbing an airport police officer in an attack federal investigators are probing as an act of terrorism will remain in detention until a hearing next week, his lawyers said on Wednesday.
U.S. prosecutors seek to halt pretrial release of Uzbek terror suspect
DENVER (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors appealed against a U.S. judge’s order on Tuesday allowing the release of a Colorado man held for more than five years while awaiting trial on charges of providing support to a suspected Islamist group in his nativ…
Utah wildfire levels 13 homes, forces evacuation of 1,500 people
(Reuters) – A fierce wildfire that has destroyed more than a dozen homes and forced the evacuation of 1,500 residents raged largely unchecked in southwestern Utah for an 11th day, as an army of firefighters struggled to corral the flames.
Judge reopens case of Colorado ‘intersex’ veteran denied passport
DENVER (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday agreed to review the constitutionality of a U.S. State Department policy of refusing to grant passports to people who identify as neither male nor female.
‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli’s notoriety slows New York jury selection
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jury selection in the New York trial of former drug company executive Martin Shkreli will enter its third day Wednesday, after some potential jurors said they could not be fair to a man who gained notoriety by raising the price of …
