Four dead in Alaska hotel room, police probe as murder-suicide
(Reuters) – Four people, including a 8-week-old girl, have been found shot to death in an Alaska hotel room in what authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide, police said.
Wisconsin agrees to statewide recount in presidential race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wisconsin’s election board agreed on Friday to conduct a statewide recount of votes cast in the presidential race, as requested by a Green Party candidate seeking similar reviews in two other states where Donald Trump scored narr…
Shootings outside U.S. stores on Black Friday leave two dead
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A Good Samaritan who tried to stop a woman being assaulted was shot to death outside a Texas Walmart packed with shoppers on Black Friday while another man in New Jersey was also killed outside a mall, authorities said.
U.S. crowds pick up slightly on Black Friday, online sales jump
(Reuters) – U.S. online sales surged on Black Friday, with Amazon.com Inc offering the steepest discounts among e-commerce sites as it set the agenda for what has traditionally been the biggest shopping day of the year for brick-and-mortar retailers.
Venezuela’s Maduro calls nephews’ drug conviction ‘U.S. imperialism’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday that the United States convicted his wife’s nephews on drug charges last week to weaken his leftist government.
Washington zoo’s panda cub recovering after emergency surgery
(Reuters) – Bei Bei, a giant panda cub who is a star attraction at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., was in stable condition on Friday after emergency surgery to remove a “lemon-sized mass of bamboo” lodged in his digestive tract, off…
South Carolina church shooting suspect found competent to stand trial
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Accused white supremacist Dylann Roof is mentally competent to stand trial for the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church last year, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
Green Party files for vote recount in Wisconsin: state election commission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The organization behind the presidential campaign for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, along with one other group, on Friday filed a petition with the Wisconsin Elections Commission for a recount of votes in the Nov. 8 election,…
Payday lenders seek emergency court help, fearing U.S. cutoff
(Reuters) – Payday lenders asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., for emergency relief to stop what they called a coordinated effort by U.S. regulators to stop banks from doing business with them, threatening their survival.
California inmates rappel from jail in escape, two at large
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Four California inmates cut through the bars of a second-story jail window and rappelled down the building’s side in an overnight escape bid, authorities said on Thursday.
