New York to allow late-term abortions for health at-risk women
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York will allow late-term abortions for women whose pregnancies endanger their health, a move that brings the state into federal compliance and ends decades of confusion faced by patients and providers of the procedure, state o…
U.S. coal miners hit Congress to rally for pension protection
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 10,000 retired coal miners and their families descended on the U.S. Congress on Thursday to pressure lawmakers to pass stalled legislation that would prevent 22,000 of them from losing their pension and health benefits as s…
Closing private detention centers for migrants would pose problems: U.S. agents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal immigration agents have raised concerns about the U.S. government possibly ending its use of private detention centers used to detain undocumented migrants, a potential policy shift that some say could damage the United S…
Expanded U.S. habitat protection ordered for rare lynx
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday to enlarge habitat protections in Idaho, Montana and Colorado for the Canada lynx, a rare wild cat that roams the Rockies and mountain forests of several other states…
Sex trafficking victims found at illicit Texas social sites, report finds
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 1,000 women and girls have been apparent victims of sex trafficking in illicit cantinas in the United States that largely operate beyond the reach of law enforcement, the anti-slavery group Polaris said…
Oakland moves to fire four officers, suspend seven over sex scandal
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The mayor of Oakland, California, said on Wednesday she had moved to fire four police officers and suspend seven more in connection with a sex scandal that has roiled the department in recent months.
Seeking escape from home, Kansas man robs bank, goes straight to jail
(Reuters) – A Kansas man robbed a bank last week in order to go to jail and avoid his wife, court documents showed.
Colorado couple accused of abusing emaciated, blind, autistic son
DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado couple has been jailed on suspicion of abusing their 17-year-old, blind and autistic son, who was hospitalized weighing just 88 pounds (40 kg) and whose condition a doctor likened to that of a concentration camp survivor, …
Rabbi arrested in New York divorce scheme involving kidnapping, murder
(Reuters) – A rabbi and another Orthodox Jewish man were arrested in New York in connection with a plot to kidnap and murder a man whose wife wanted to divorce him, federal officials said on Wednesday.
Oklahoma Sept. 3 earthquake was strongest recorded in state -USGS
(Reuters) – An earthquake in Oklahoma on Sept. 3 was the strongest on record in the state and had a magnitude of 5.8, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Wednesday.
