FDA recommends Zika testing for all blood donated in U.S.
CHICAGO/TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended on Friday that all blood donated in the United States and its territories be tested for Zika virus, as it moves to prevent transmission of the virus through the blood sup…
Video emerges showing U.S. police pursuing deaf driver
(Reuters) – A video has emerged purportedly showing the beginning of a chase that resulted with a Highway Patrol trooper fatally shooting a deaf driver two weeks ago.
Pacific Tropical Storm Lester now a hurricane: NHC
(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Lester has developed an eye and is now a hurricane as it moved west in the Pacific Ocean away from the mainland of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in an advisory on Friday.
Justice Department to decide charges against Arizona lawman in racial profiling case
PHOENIX (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will decide whether criminal contempt charges will be brought against Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio for violating court orders in a racial profiling case, court documents released late on Friday showed.
Panic on NY subway train as crickets, worms let loose in apparent prank
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It could have been a scene straight out of a horror movie.
Partial win in fight over North Carolina transgender bathroom law
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – North Carolina’s university system must allow two transgender students and a transgender employee to use bathrooms matching their gender identity, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday, in a partial victory for those fighting the…
Exclusive: FBI raids home of ex-College Board official in probe of SAT leak
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal agents searched the home of a former employee-turned-outspoken critic of the College Board, the standardized testing giant, as part of an investigation into the breach of hundreds of questions from the SAT college entranc…
Yellowstone employee falls to death in park canyon
(Reuters) – A 21-year-old worker at the Yellowstone National Park plunged to her death early on Friday from the edge of a canyon while socializing with colleagues, park officials said.
Caesars must face $11 billion in lawsuits: U.S. judge
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Caesars Entertainment Corp must face lawsuits from bondholders seeking some $11 billion in claims, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday in a decision the casino company had warned could plunge it into bankruptcy alongside its operating uni…
Woman kidnapped, held for 18 years cannot sue U.S. over parole failures: court
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A woman who was kidnapped near her California home at the age of 11 and held captive for 18 years by a convicted sex offender cannot sue the U.S. government for failing to properly supervise him on parole, a federal appeals cour…
