Iowa city braces for floods as river expected to crest
(Reuters) – The waters of the Cedar River are expected on Tuesday to hit their highest level in nearly a decade, putting strain on a sprawling network of flood barricades in Iowa’s second-largest city of Cedar Rapids.
Charlotte protesters demand mayor’s resignation over black man’s slaying
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) – Dozens of protesters took their fight for racial equality in policing to the heart of Charlotte’s power structure on Monday, demanding the resignations of the mayor, police chief, and lawmakers in the wake of the police slay…
ACLU defending New York bombing suspect, calls lawyer delays ‘disturbing’
(Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday it will temporarily provide legal counsel for the man suspected of detonating a bomb in the heart of New York City that injured 31 people earlier this month, as concern builds over the suspe…
Washington state mall shooter had no militant contact: source
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (Reuters) – There is no evidence showing that a man charged with five counts of first-degree murder after confessing to a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Washington state over the weekend had contact with any known Islamic mi…
Houston lawyer shoots nine, is killed by police
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Houston lawyer whose business was struggling opened fire on morning commuters on Monday, injuring at least nine people before being shot dead by police, authorities said.
Pipeline fight hangs over White House tribal summit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration will soon ask federal agencies to require that Native American treaty rights be considered in decision-making on natural resource projects, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said on Monday, hoping to avoid …
New Jersey’s Atlantic City water utility to buy old airstrip for $100 million
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Reuters) – Atlantic City, New Jersey’s fiscally distressed gambling hub, stands to gain $100 million by selling a defunct municipal airstrip to the city’s quasi-independent public water utility, Mayor Don Guardian and other officia…
Jury selection begins in U.S. case against church shooter
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Several hundred people reported to the U.S. courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday for the start of jury selection in the death penalty case against a white man who shot dead nine black parishioners in a church…
Three Mississippi River locks may close due to flood: Army Corps
(Reuters) – Flooding on the Mississippi River is likely to close three locks on the grain shipping waterway from southern Iowa to northern Missouri later this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday.
California man faces sentencing as would-be Islamic State recruit
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California man that federal prosecutors described as a would-be recruit for Islamic State militants faced sentencing on Monday for his conviction on charges he sought to join the group in Syria and engaged in bank fraud to sup…
