Trump, taking a break from White House prep, tees off with Tiger Woods
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday took a break from preparing to take office to engage in a pastime beloved by presidents since Dwight Eisenhower: playing 18 holes of golf.
Massachusetts Muslim cemetery to go ahead after year-long fight
BOSTON (Reuters) – A proposed Muslim cemetery in rural central Massachusetts will go forward after the town that fought the idea for most of the year and the Islamic society that proposed the plan reached a deal, the two sides said on Friday.
Exclusive: FBI probes FDIC hack linked to China’s military – sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating how hackers infiltrated computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for several years beginning in 2010 in a breach senior FDIC officials believe was sponsored by China’s military, people with …
CIA chief warns against in-kind retaliation for Russian hacking: NPR
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan has warned the U.S. government against a tit-for-tat response to Russian hacking during the presidential election.
Suspect arrested road-rage shooting of toddler in Arkansas
(Reuters) – Police have arrested a 33-year-old Arkansas man suspected of fatally shooting a three-year-old boy on Saturday in what is believed to have been an act of road rage, officials said on Friday.
Exclusive: Chinese education giant helps its students game the SAT
LONDON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – When the new SAT was given for the first time in March, the owner of the test took unprecedented steps to stop “bad actors” from collecting and circulating material from the all-important college entrance exam.
Mistrial declared in corruption case against ex-Los Angeles sheriff
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A federal judge declared a mistrial on Thursday in the obstruction of justice case against former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, ruling that jurors were hopelessly deadlocked, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office sai…
Passenger removed from flight after confrontation with Ivanka Trump
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A JetBlue airline passenger, who media outlets and a witness described as making angry remarks at the sight of Ivanka Trump on his flight, was removed from the plane on Thursday by the airline.
Blacks arrested in Colorado at three times the population rate
DENVER (Reuters) – African-American men and women in Colorado were disproportionately arrested or issued citations last year, and were more likely to be sentenced to prison than other racial groups, according to a state-commissioned study released on T…
New Jersey man groped woman on flight, then wrote apology note: prosecutors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New Jersey man groped a woman during a transcontinental flight and then apologized in a pair of notes in which he acknowledged his actions were “stupid,” U.S. authorities said on Thursday.
