Former NFLer Heap kills daughter in accident in Arizona: media
(Reuters) – Former NFL star player Todd Heap hit and killed his 3-year-old daughter on Friday while he was moving his truck in his driveway at his Arizona home, media reported.
As millions watch via webcam, giraffe gives birth in NY zoo
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After weeks of suspense, April the giraffe finally gave birth on Saturday to a baby boy, delighting of hundreds of thousands of people who have been monitoring a live cam feed from a New York zoo in anticipation of the long-overdue…
Thousands at rallies demand Trump release tax returns
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people marched through midtown Manhattan and dozens of U.S. cities on Saturday to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns and to dispute his claim that the public does not care abo…
Former NFLer Heap kills daughter in accident in Arizona: media
(Reuters) – Former NFL star player Todd Heap hit and killed his 3-year-old daughter on Friday while he was moving his truck in his driveway at his Arizona home, media reported.
Auburn University cancels speech by avowed white nationalist
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alabama’s Auburn University on Friday canceled a campus speech by Richard Spencer, a white U.S. nationalist best known for drawing Nazi-like salutes at a party to celebrate President Donald Trump’s election last year, citing safety…
U.S. judge puts hold on Arkansas plan for successive executions
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked plans by Arkansas to carry out a rapid series of executions this month, after the inmates argued the state’s rush to the death chamber was unconstitutional and reckless.
California mosque led by women opens doors to all
BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters) – The second mosque in the United States led solely by women held its inaugural service in California on Friday, but unlike a Los Angeles congregation that opened two years ago, the new female-led Muslim house of worship in B…
Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez cleared of 2012 double murder
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Boston jury on Friday found former New England Patriots football star Aaron Hernandez not guilty of murdering two men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012, following what prosecutors described as a dispute that began over a spilled d…
Decades of sexual abuse at elite Connecticut school documented in report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Students at Choate Rosemary Hall, an elite boarding school in Connecticut, were sexually abused by at least 12 faculty members in incidents that date back to the 1960s, according to a report commissioned by the school and released …
United Air passenger says scorpion bit him on flight from Texas
NEW YORK (Reuters) – United Airlines found itself on the defensive again on Friday after a passenger complained that a scorpion stung him during a flight from Texas, capping off a bruising week for the public image of the one of the world’s largest car…
