Exclusive: Probe of leaked U.S. NSA hacking tools examines operative’s ‘mistake’
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available on a remote computer and Russian hackers found…
Satanic Temple finds home at site of former Massachusetts witch trials
SALEM, Mass. (Reuters) – The new international headquarters for the Satanic Temple, which says its mission is to promote separation of church and state not devil worship, opened to the public on Thursday in a Massachusetts city known historically for p…
Ex-Cuomo advisers, others charged in New York corruption cases
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal and state prosecutors on Thursday announced charges against 10 men, including two onetime senior advisers to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in corruption and fraud cases involving state contracts worth hundreds of millions…
Three Phoenix policemen resign after making motorist eat marijuana
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Three Phoenix policemen resigned on Thursday after two of them forced a 19-year-old motorist to eat marijuana found during a traffic stop, the city’s police chief said.
Anti-UAW worker group at VW Tennessee plant loses representation
DETROIT (Reuters) – A worker group created as an alternative to the United Auto Workers union at Volkswagen AG’s plant in Tennessee has failed to meet minimum membership requirements under the German automaker’s labor policy, VW said on Thursday.
Severely disabled Wisconsin girl who stopped treatments dies at 14
(Reuters) – A severely disabled Wisconsin girl who made headlines with her controversial decision to end the medical assistance and treatment that was keeping her alive died on Thursday at the age of 14, the county medical examiner said.
Kentucky Supreme Court blocks governor’s college funding cuts
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – Kentucky’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the state’s Republican governor does not have the authority to cut public universities’ budgets.
Cleveland settles ‘I can’t breathe’ wrongful death lawsuit with black man’s family
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – The family of a African-American man who died in 2010 after being tasered by Cleveland police will receive a $375,000 settlement from the city, the mayor’s office said on Thursday.
U.S., Canada aboriginal tribes form alliance to stop oil pipelines
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Aboriginal tribes from Canada and the northern United States signed a treaty on Thursday to jointly fight proposals to build more pipelines to carry crude from Alberta’s oil sands, saying further development would damage …
Chicago police officer pleads not guilty to civil rights charges
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago policeman who was indicted on federal civil rights charges after being captured on a dashboard camera firing into a car full of teenagers, wounding two of them, pleaded not guilty on Thursday, a court official said.
