New York bomb squad clears suspicious package in Times Square
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s bomb squad responded to a suspicious piece of luggage abandoned on a sidewalk in the Times Square neighborhood on Wednesday that was later determined to be harmless, police said.
‘Chicken shacks’ are lifeline for New Jersey’s Afghan immigrants
ELIZABETH, N.J. (Reuters) – They dot the landscape in this working-class New Jersey city, popping up every few blocks with names like U.S. Fried Chicken, Royal Fried Chicken and New York Fried Chicken and Burger and giving immigrants a foothold in a ne…
Divided U.S. Supreme Court turns to less sensitive IP cases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Shorthanded and ideologically divided, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to take up any cases on politically sensitive social issues in its new term starting in October, instead showing a keen interest in more technical cases of imp…
Protest erupts after police kill black man in North Carolina
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) – Protesters blocked a highway and clashed with police in Charlotte, North Carolina, early on Wednesday morning after officers fatally shot a black man they said had a gun when they approached him in a parking lot.
‘L.A. Confidential’ director Curtis Hanson found dead at California home
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Movie director Curtis Hanson, who won an Oscar for “L.A Confidential”, was found dead in his California home on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said. He was 71.
Police had no justification for fatal shooting of Oklahoma man: family’s lawyers
TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – The unarmed black man fatally shot by a white Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer in an incident captured on video posed no imminent threat, lawyers for his family said on Tuesday, disputing an allegation the man was reaching into …
Senate Republicans seek probe of Mylan EpiPen oversight
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mylan NV faced new scrutiny over price hikes for its anti-allergy EpiPen on Tuesday, with U.S. lawmakers calling for a probe of oversight of the company’s rebates to government healthcare plans, while West Virginia said it was investigating whether Mylan defrauded its Medicaid department.
Lawyer for JonBenet Ramsey family vows to sue CBS over documentary
DENVER (Reuters) – The lawyer for the family of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey denounced a CBS documentary theorizing she was killed by her brother, Burke, as a “false and unprofessional television attack” and threatened to sue the network fo…
U.S. government approves Colonial Pipeline restart after leak
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government approved a Wednesday restart for Colonial Pipeline Co’s main gasoline pipeline, authorities said on Tuesday, after the line’s biggest leak in nearly two decades caused supply shortages that pushed pump prices hi…
U2 spy plane crash in California kills pilot, injures another
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane crashed shortly after takeoff during a training mission on Tuesday morning in California, killing one of the pilots and injuring the other, the Air Force said.
