Illinois fix to unpaid bills may end up as financial time bomb
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois owes a handful of financial consortia more than $118 million under an obscure program intended to speed up overdue payments to the cash-strapped state’s vendors, an analysis of state records shows.
U.S., Russia request Czechs extradite arrested Russian hacker
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The United States and Russia have both requested the extradition of a Russian arrested in Prague and indicted in the U.S. for hacking computers of social media companies, the Czech justice ministry said on Wednesday.
Judge orders U.S. to reconsider denying passport to ‘intersex’ veteran
DENVER (Reuters) – A federal judge in Denver ordered the U.S. Department of State to reconsider its denial of a passport to a Navy veteran from Colorado who identifies as neither male or female, court documents showed on Tuesday.
No Baltimore-DOJ settlement on police in coming weeks: mayor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and Baltimore on reforming the city’s troubled police department is unlikely before Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake leaves office next month, she said on Tuesday.
AppNexus bans Breitbart from ad network, citing hate speech
(Reuters) – Breitbart News, the outlet once led by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist, has been blocked by one of the largest advertising networks serving digital publishers due to hate speech.
EPA delays cleanup proposal for radioactive waste in Missouri
(Reuters) – The U.S. government said on Tuesday it was delaying indefinitely its proposal for how to clean up or seal off radioactive soil buried in a St. Louis-area landfill adjacent to another waste site where an underground fire has been smoldering …
Four critically injured in fire at Exxon’s giant Baton Rouge refinery
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Four people were in critical condition after a fire hit a giant Exxon Mobil refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday, a local hospital said.
U.S.-Iranian citizen convicted in U.S. for trying to buy missiles for Iran
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A dual citizen of Iran and the United States was found guilty on Tuesday on charges that he tried to help acquire surface-to-air missiles and aircraft components for the government of Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions.
For Standing Rock Sioux, new water system may reduce oil leak risk
(Reuters) – For months, North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline’s planned crossing under the Missouri River, adjacent to their lands, in part due to worries about contamination of their primary water sour…
On JFK anniversary, Zapruder relative says assassination film hovers over family
DALLAS (Reuters) – Alexandra Zapruder was not born when her grandfather trained his home-movie camera on President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade rolling through downtown Dallas 53 years ago on Tuesday, but that 26-second film has become a difficult family legacy.
