Supreme Court to weigh reach of insider trading law
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider this week a closely watched insider trading case that could limit the ability of prosecutors to pursue such charges against hedge fund managers and other traders.
Stressed out by U.S. election? Tune out and assume downward-facing dog pose
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Stop reading the news and take up yoga. That’s what some therapists in the United States are telling patients stressed out by a nasty presidential campaign in which two unpopular candidates are in a tight race for the most powerf…
El Cajon, California, sees fifth day of protests over police shooting
EL CAJON, Calif. (Reuters) – A crowd of about 200 demonstrators marched through the center of El Cajon, California, on Saturday in a fifth day of protests against the police shooting of an unarmed black man in an encounter captured on video.
Live from New York, it’s a Trump-Clinton rematch – of sorts
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Veteran actor and frequent host Alec Baldwin returned to “Saturday Night Live” on Saturday, debuting his new gig playing a scowling, blustering Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for U.S. president.
Six-year-old boy shot at South Carolina school dies from wound
(Reuters) – A 6-year-old South Carolina boy wounded in a schoolyard shooting died on Saturday, a coroner said, a day after a teenage suspect was charged with murdering his own father and wounding the boy, a teacher and another student.
Powerful Hurricane Matthew swirls toward Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful cyclone to form over the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007, churned across the Caribbean on Saturday on a path expected to put it over Jamaica and Haiti on Monday.
Pennsylvania college students suspended over blackface video
(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania college has suspended two students for their role in an online video that showed a white female student in blackface and that was widely shared on social media.
Investigators interview engineer of crashed New Jersey train
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investigators on Saturday interviewed the engineer of a New Jersey commuter train that smashed into a Hoboken station this week, killing one person and injuring 108, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement.
Accused mobster, near death, denies ties to Boston art heist: lawyer
BOSTON (Reuters) – An accused mobster on what may be his death bed once again denied knowing anything about the whereabouts of paintings stolen from a Boston museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history, his lawyer said on Saturday.
Police release videos of officer shooting California man
EL CAJON, Calif. (Reuters) – Authorities on Friday released two videos of police shooting an unarmed black man dead in El Cajon, California, but the grainy footage, much of it without sound, was not likely to pacify community outrage over the incident….
