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…
New computer glitch delays United Airlines flights
PARIS (Reuters) – Thousands of passengers were delayed worldwide after a computer glitch temporarily halted departures at United Airlines, the latest in a series of outages to affect rival companies in the industry.
Accused UK ‘flash crash’ trader to be extradited to U.S.
LONDON (Reuters) – A London-based trader accused of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street “flash crash” by placing bogus orders to spoof the market lost his legal bid to stop extradition on Friday and will now be sent to the United States to face trial….
Obama plans overhaul of child support payment rules for prisoners
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration, in its final weeks, plans to ease the legal obligations on prisoners to pay for child support while they are locked up, targeting practices that critics say can saddle ex-convicts with crippling debts.
Phoenix woman removes handcuffs, hangs herself in police van: police
(Reuters) – A woman arrested in Phoenix for domestic violence and assaulting a police officer slipped out of her handcuffs and hung herself with a shoelace from a vent in the back of a police van, authorities said on Thursday.
