Brooklyn train was speeding before crash: U.S. investigators
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The commuter train that crashed at a busy New York City terminal on Wednesday appeared to be traveling at more than twice the speed limit, and the operator has said he does not remember the moment of impact, federal investigators s…
South Carolina church gunman objects to tearful testimony
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Convicted murderer Dylann Roof said on Thursday tearful testimony by family members of those slain in the South Carolina church massacre was excessive and would prejudice jurors who will decide whether he should be sentence…
Democrats demand probe of Trump health nominee
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats on Thursday demanded an ethics probe into Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. health secretary, following a report that the fierce Obamacare critic traded in healthcare company stocks while pu…
Exhibit A for Republican Obamacare repeal challenge: people with HIV
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists have shown conclusively that treatment not only improves the health of people infected with HIV, it also stops transmission of the virus that causes AIDS.
U.S. Army eases rules on beards, turbans for Muslim, Sikh troops
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army has taken new steps to make it easier for Sikhs, Muslims and other religious minorities to obtain approval to dress and groom themselves according to their religious customs while serving in the military, a spokesma…
Massachusetts sheriff offers prison inmates to build Trump’s wall
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts county sheriff has proposed sending prison inmates from around the United States to build the proposed wall along the Mexican border that is one of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent campaign promises….
Jury orders DuPont to pay $10.5 million over leaked chemical
(Reuters) – A U.S. jury in Ohio ordered DuPont on Thursday to pay $10.5 million in punitive damages to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from a Dupont plant, the plaintiff’s lawyer Robert Bilott said…
Oil platform fire in Gulf of Mexico extinguished: U.S. Coast Guard
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday a fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off Grand Isle, Louisiana was extinguished and the source of the oil was secured.
Jury to mull death penalty for Massachusetts triple murderer
BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal jury in Massachusetts is due on Thursday to begin deliberating on whether to sentence to death a former drifter who admitted to the brutal fatal stabbings and strangling of three men during a multi-day 2001 rampage.
Record snow and rain stretches across parched U.S. west
(Reuters) – Record snow and rain pummeled the western United States on Thursday, raising the threat of floods and freezing temperatures in some areas across the region, weather officials said.
