Powerful Hurricane Matthew swirls toward Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful cyclone to form over the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007, churned across the Caribbean on Saturday on a path expected to put it over Jamaica and Haiti on Monday.
Pennsylvania college students suspended over blackface video
(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania college has suspended two students for their role in an online video that showed a white female student in blackface and that was widely shared on social media.
Investigators interview engineer of crashed New Jersey train
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investigators on Saturday interviewed the engineer of a New Jersey commuter train that smashed into a Hoboken station this week, killing one person and injuring 108, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement.
Accused mobster, near death, denies ties to Boston art heist: lawyer
BOSTON (Reuters) – An accused mobster on what may be his death bed once again denied knowing anything about the whereabouts of paintings stolen from a Boston museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history, his lawyer said on Saturday.
Police release videos of officer shooting California man
EL CAJON, Calif. (Reuters) – Authorities on Friday released two videos of police shooting an unarmed black man dead in El Cajon, California, but the grainy footage, much of it without sound, was not likely to pacify community outrage over the incident….
Appeals court says U.S. ‘motor voter’ law preempts Kansas ID rules
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling requiring Kansas to allow thousands of people who registered to vote at motor vehicle offices to stay on election rolls, despite not showing proof of citizenship as mandated by a state la…
Texas businessman Wyly strikes $198 million deal with SEC
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Texas businessman Sam Wyly has agreed to pay $198.1 million to resolve claims by U.S. securities regulators that he engaged in a long-running securities fraud to hide trades in companies he controlled using offshore trusts, accordi…
S&P cuts Illinois’ credit rating on state’s ‘weak’ management
CHICAGO (Reuters) – S&P Global Ratings dropped Illinois’ credit rating one notch to BBB on Friday and warned it could fall further absent a long-term solution that deals with the state’s chronic structural budget deficit and pension woes.
California proposes giving more freedom to test self-driving cars
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California will allow companies more leeway in testing self-driving cars on public roads while restricting how the nascent technology is advertised under revised draft regulations released on Friday.
New Jersey train crash turns spotlight on Christie, funding crisis
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A deadly New Jersey Transit train crash this week has renewed questions about Republican Governor Chris Christie’s hard-nosed approach to a public transit funding crisis, even as he announced a compromise on Friday to pay for long-…
