Puerto Rico debt fix unlikely to resemble Detroit’s
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The federal appointees tapped to help map Puerto Rico’s economic future are technocrats more than political actors, and that could make the U.S. territory’s fiscal turnaround look more like a corporate restructuring than a politica…
Obama defends Kaepernick’s right to protest even if message obscured
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was exercising his constitutional right by refusing to stand for the national anthem, although he added that the nature of the protest could ma…
Gunfire kills two at New York’s Caribbean street party
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event in years past, authorities sai…
Obama says more needs to be done to grow wages, shrink inequality
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – More needs to be done to grow wages and shrink inequality in the global economy, United States President Barack Obama said on Monday, at the close of the G20 summit in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
L.A. airport terminal evacuated in second security scare in week
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – One week after a security panic threw Los Angeles International Airport into gridlock, a police traffic stop on Sunday outside an LAX baggage-claim area triggered a smaller-scale upheaval that led to the evacuation of a passenge…
Helicopter search suspended for missing U.S. climbers in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – An aerial search for two American mountaineers missing in Pakistan was suspended on Sunday, an official said, after an initial flight showed no sign of the men but indicated an avalanche on the peak they were climbing.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, police officer critically wounded, suspect slain
(Reuters) – A suspect was shot dead and an Atlantic City, New Jersey, police officer critically wounded on Saturday when police exchanged gunfire with a group of men allegedly engaged in criminal activity, the county prosecutor’s office said.
Mexican soldiers kill ten after highway ambush near U.S. border
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers killed ten members of a criminal group accused of ambushing a military patrol near the U.S. border in the violent northern state of Tamaulipas on Saturday, the government said.
Remains of Minnesota boy missing since 1989 found: authorities
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – The remains of an 11-year-old boy abducted in 1989 while riding his bicycle near his home in central Minnesota have been found and were officially identified on Saturday, authorities said.
Former New York mayor David Dinkins sued for alleged hit-and-run
(Reuters) – Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins denied on Saturday an accusation in a lawsuit that he plowed into a bicycle deliveryman while driving on a Manhattan street and then fled.
