Power outage cripples San Francisco for seven hours
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A massive power outage threw San Francisco into chaos for most of the work day on Friday, knocking out traffic signals, paralyzing businesses and halting the city’s famed cable cars.
FBI takes custody of teacher accused of kidnapping Tennessee girl
YREKA, Calif. (Reuters) – A former schoolteacher, who is accused of luring a 15-year-old Tennessee teenager into his car and taking her on a month-long odyssey that ended with his arrest in California, will appear in federal court in Sacramento on Mond…
Michigan couple charged with arranging genital mutilation for seven-year-olds
(Reuters) – A Michigan doctor and his wife were charged in federal court on Friday with helping a Detroit physician perform genital mutilation on 7-year-old girls.
Keep evidence from ex-NFLer Hernandez’s prison suicide: judge
(Reuters) – A Massachusetts state judge on Friday ordered prison officials to preserve any evidence collected from the cell of former National Football League star Aaron Hernandez, according to court documents, two days after he was found dead of an ap…
Top U.S. officials to testify in Trump-Russia probe reboot
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Friday it had invited FBI, NSA and Obama administration officials to testify as it restarts its investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. electi…
Trump greets Egyptian-American freed from Egyptian detention
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday welcomed back to the United States Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American charity worker whose release from jail in Egypt was sought by Trump when he met Egypt’s president early this month.
Ex-Illinois Governor Blagojevich’s 14-year prison term upheld
(Reuters) – Rod Blagojevich, a former Illinois governor, on Friday lost his bid for leniency as a federal appeals court refused to shorten his 14-year prison term in a vast public corruption case, including an effort to sell Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate …
North Dakota’s ‘water protectors’ bring their pipeline story to film
NEW YORK (Reuters) – They call themselves “water protectors” and describe the Dakota Access pipeline ferrying crude oil across America as “the black snake.”
Trump, Republicans face tricky task of averting U.S. government shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans who control Congress face their first major budget test next week, with the threat of a U.S. government shutdown potentially hinging on his proposed Mexican border wall as well as…
Ohio investigates Visa’s debit card transactions
(Reuters) – Visa Inc said on Friday it was being investigated on rules related to acceptance of its debit cards, cardholder verification methods and routing of debit transactions.
