Wisdom the albatross, age 66, lays an egg at Pacific refuge
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Wisdom the albatross, the world’s oldest known breeding bird in the wild, has laid an egg at 66 years of age after returning to a wildlife refuge in the Pacific Ocean, U.S. wildlife officials said on Tuesday.
Cosby’s lawyers, prosecutors clash in court over female accusers
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) – Lawyers for Bill Cosby and Pennsylvania prosecutors clashed angrily in court on Tuesday over whether the defense team was deliberately trying to intimidate women who have accused the entertainer of sexual assault.
Ohio governor vetoes ‘heartbeat’ abortion ban, signs 20-week legislation
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Republican Governor John Kasich signed a 20-week abortion ban into law on Tuesday but vetoed stricter legislation that would have forbidden the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks after concepti…
New accusations against former Fox News head Ailes in lawsuit
(Reuters) – New sexual harassment accusations against former Fox News network chief Roger Ailes were revealed in a lawsuit filed against 21st Century Fox on Monday.
Oklahoma court strikes down abortion restriction as unconstitutional
(Reuters) – The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital near their clinic, saying the measure “places an undue burden on a women’s access to abortion.”…
Roof scouted South Carolina church before deadly attack: FBI agent
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Dylann Roof visited Charleston, South Carolina, at least six times in the months before he shot and killed nine people in a historic black church there in June 2015, an FBI agent told jurors at Roof’s federal death penalty …
IBM promises to hire Americans as tech executives set to meet Trump
(Reuters) – IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty pledged to hire and train workers in the United States as she and other technology executives prepared to meet on Wednesday with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Tech employees vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims, deport immigrants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 200 employees of technology companies including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Twitter Inc and Salesforce pledged on Tuesday to not help U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration build a data registry to track people b…
Mike Pence look-alike raises money for LGBT charities in Times Square
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New York City’s Times Square has long been famous for its neon advertising, giant billboards and characters dressed up as anything from Mickey Mouse to the Statue of Liberty.
West Coast states to fight climate change even if Trump does not
CORONADO, Calif. (Reuters) – The governors of the three U.S. West Coast states on Tuesday vowed to step up their efforts to fight climate change in the face of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has dismissed global warmin…
