Two Wisconsin men charged with trying to join Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two Wisconsin men have been charged with attempting to travel overseas to join the Islamic State militant group, the Justice Department said on Friday.
U.S. Sen. Warren urges Obama to fire head of SEC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a proponent of strong financial regulation, turned up the heat on the country’s top securities regulator on Friday, urging President Barack Obama to fire Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mar…
U.S. Justice Ginsburg backtracks on criticism of NFL’s Kaepernick
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday called her criticism of National Football League player Colin Kaepernick “inappropriately dismissive and harsh” and said she should not have commented on his protest agains…
New York pharmacy’s ‘man tax’ to highlight tampon costs prompts backlash
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A New York City pharmacy that imposed a tax only on male customers has received some 3,000 hate messages, its co-owner said on Friday, amid a national debate over taxes on feminine hygiene products.
Drug kingpin Guzman U.S. extradition set for early 2017: senior official
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico expects to extradite captured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States at the outset of 2017, a top government official said on Friday, despite ongoing appeals by lawyers to block his departure.
Florida Supreme Court strikes down new death penalty law
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – The Florida Supreme Court overturned a new state death penalty law on Friday because it does not require juries to unanimously recommend capital punishment in a set of rulings with implications for ongoing prosecutions and 385 d…
Two Indianapolis shootings targeting law enforcement possibly linked
(Reuters) – Two shootings this month targeting police in Indianapolis may be related, police said on Friday, a day after shots again struck law enforcement offices in the Indiana capital.
Puerto Rico governor offers plan to right island’s economic ship
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s outgoing governor, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, on Friday presented a fiscal turnaround plan to a federal oversight board, stating if “things do not change” the island faces a 10-year cumulative budget deficit of $34 bil…
Hudson train tunnel between NY, NJ gets fast environmental review
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and other officials on Friday said the federal government would expedite the environmental review for a new train tunnel between New York and New Jersey underneath the Hudson River.
Dozens of U.S. lawmakers request briefing on Yahoo email scanning
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of 48 lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday asked the Obama administration to brief Congress “as soon as possible” about a 2015 Yahoo program to scan all of its users’ incoming email at the…
