Baltimore police lieutenant acquitted in Freddie Gray case
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Baltimore prosecutors on Monday failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction against a city police officer for the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, as a lieutenant was cleared of all charges.
Luxury home sales plunge in Long Island’s tony Hamptons
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Overall sales plunged by about half and home prices fell sharply in the second quarter in the toniest enclaves of the Hamptons, New York’s weekend haunt for the wealthy, as stock market jitters earlier in the year damped the appeti…
Zika mystery widens as Utah caregiver contracts virus
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. health officials are investigating the mysterious case of a person in Utah who contracted Zika while caring for an elderly man infected with the virus who died last month.
Presidential candidate Clinton promises to prosecute police killers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton promised on Monday to bring the “full weight of the law” against people who kill police officers if she becomes the next U.S. president after two recent episodes of gunmen slaying police officers in Dallas and Baton…
U.S. says hopes to raise more than $2 billion from donors for Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States expects to raise about $2 billion from donor nations for Iraq’s needs during a pledging conference in Washington this week, a senior State Department official said on Monday.
U.S. judge rejects plea deal for ex-L.A. sheriff who lied in probe
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A plea agreement between U.S. prosecutors and former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who had pleaded guilty to lying to investigators in a corruption and civil rights probe, was rejected on Monday by a federal judge who sai…
U.S. officials working to restore public trust in police: attorney general
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday strongly condemned the weekend slaying of three Louisiana police officers and said federal authorities were working to help restore public trust in police following a series of violen…
Exclusive: U.S. and Chinese labor groups collaborated before China Wal-Mart strikes
CHICAGO (Reuters) – OUR Walmart, the American worker group, has taken the unusual step of collaborating with a group of Chinese Wal-Mart workers trying to fight work schedule changes and low wages.
Open carry gun rights cause jitters at Republican convention
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Even gun rights advocates are questioning whether people should be allowed to carry rifles and handguns during protests at this week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland in the wake of the shootings of six police officers…
Baton Rouge: A city divided between police and the policed
(Reuters) – Before the killing of three law enforcement officers on Sunday and the fatal shooting of a black man by police earlier this month, Baton Rouge was a city divided between the police and the policed.
