Texas cemetery agrees to halt decades-long segregation
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A Texas cemetery has agreed to end its segregationist policy of only burying white people after it was sued for discrimination by a woman who claimed the operators refused to bury her Hispanic husband, court papers showed on Mon…
U.N. body overturns rejection, accredits press freedom watchdog
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) was granted consultative status at the United Nations on Monday after the U.N. Economic and Social Council overturned an earlier decision rejecting the press freedom w…
Democratic Party email leak points to Russia: cyber experts, U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cyber security experts and U.S. officials said on Monday there was evidence that Russia engineered the release of sensitive Democratic Party emails in order to influence the U.S. presidential election.
Florida man admits helping funnel 2012 foreign political contribution
(Reuters) – A Florida man pleaded guilty on Monday to working with another man to illegally funnel $80,000 in foreign contributions to U.S. President Barack Obama’s joint fundraising committee in 2012 so that a foreign national could attend a campaign …
New York banana importer gets more prison time for embezzlement
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Long Island banana importer serving prison terms for engaging in a cocaine distribution scheme and beating his girlfriend was sentenced on Monday to another 5-1/2 years in custody for stealing from his employees’ retirement plan….
Texas deputy, set to retire in September, shot dead at home near Austin
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A sheriff’s deputy in Travis County, Texas was shot and killed on Monday after reporting to the department’s dispatcher that a suspected robbery was in progress at his home in suburban Austin, officials said.
TV newswoman plunges 125 feet to death at North Carolina waterfall
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – A television news anchor from Georgia fell 125 feet to her death in North Carolina after being swept over a waterfall, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Forest Service said on Monday.
U.S., Mexico air transport accord enters in force, seen boosting travel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico agreed to put into force a new air transportation agreement that is expected to boost travel and clear the way for any city to have direct airline service to the neighboring nation, the U.S. Transport…
U.S. Air Force gives up efforts to recover weather satellite
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – An Air Force weather satellite that failed two years into its planned five-year lifetime cannot be recovered, leaving an aged network of spacecraft in orbit to collect key meteorological data for global military operati…
LATAM Airlines to pay $22 million over Argentine bribes case
WASHINGTON/SANTIAGO (Reuters) – LATAM Airlines Group SA , Latin America’s largest airline, has agreed to pay more than $22 million in civil and criminal fines relating to a decade-old Argentine bribery case, U.S. authorities said Monday.
