California marijuana legalization faces unlikely foe: growers
HUMBOLDT COUNTY, Calif. (Reuters) – Hezekiah Allen is a third-generation marijuana farmer in this Northern California county, where the cool coastal fog pours off the Pacific Ocean, coaxing pot plants to heights of 20 feet.
U.S. transport chief: automakers will back self-driving car oversight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told Reuters he expects automakers and tech companies will comply with voluntary guidelines his department issued last month for autonomous vehicles.
Dashcam police video shows ‘execution’ of California black man: lawyer
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two Sacramento police officers heard on a dashboard-camera video discussing how they might run down a fleeing black man with their patrol car before killing him in a burst of gunfire should be charged with murder, a lawyer for h…
Teen suspect in South Carolina school shooting faces second murder charge
(Reuters) – A 14-year-old boy suspected in a South Carolina schoolyard shooting last week faces a second murder charge after one of the victims from the incident died from his wounds, a prosecutor said on Monday.
U.S. intelligence community opposes limits to privacy watchdog: memo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. intelligence community does not support pending congressional legislation that would curtail the authority of a privacy watchdog that advises the president on government surveillance programs, according to an unclassifie…
Ex-detainees say CIA used makeshift electric chair in secret Afghan prison: rights group
(Reuters) – Two Tunisian men who spent 12 years in U.S. custody in Afghanistan said CIA interrogators tortured them using previously unreported techniques that included threatening them with a makeshift electric chair and beating them with batons so br…
U.S. appeals court sides against Pence in Syrian refugee case
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Indiana Governor Mike Pence, the Republican nominee for U.S. vice president, lost another round in federal court on Monday in his bid to keep refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war from resettling in his state.
U.S. top court denies Obama request to rehear major immigration case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear a bid to revive President Barack Obama’s plan to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4-4 in June.
L.A. police chief says suspect shot by officers was holding gun
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An 18-year-old black man who was shot to death by Los Angeles police over the weekend was fleeing from a suspected stolen car and had turned toward officers with a gun in his hand before they opened fire on him, the city’s polic…
Maryland man charged with plotting to kill on behalf of Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi citizen who lives in Maryland has been charged with plotting to kill a member of the U.S. military on behalf of Islamic State, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.
