Baby dies after stroller plunges into a New York elevator shaft
New York (Reuters) – A six-week-old baby girl died on Thursday after the stroller carrying her fell into an open elevator shaft on the 23rd floor of a Brooklyn apartment building, New York City police said.
Daring U.S. pipeline sabotage spawned by lobster boat coal protest
CALGARY, Alberta/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pipeline sabotage by environmental activists that shook the North American energy industry this week had its roots in a 2013 protest off Massachusetts, when two men in a 32-foot lobster boat blocked a 40,000-ton co…
Accused New York, New Jersey bomber to make first court appearance
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The man accused of multiple bombings last month in New York and New Jersey that injured more than 30 people is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Thursday since his Sept. 19 arrest.
Sanders among five senators asking Obama to order Dakota pipeline review
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and four other U.S. senators on Thursday called on President Barack Obama to order a comprehensive environmental review of a pipeline project that has stirred widespread opp…
U.S. investigators see suicide behind Connecticut plane crash: sources
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. investigators believe a Jordanian student pilot was trying to kill himself when he crashed a small plane in Connecticut this week but do not believe he was affiliated with militant groups, two federal officials fami…
New Jersey citizen’s ‘Bridgegate’ complaint against Christie can proceed: judge
PRINCETON, N.J. (Reuters) – A citizen’s complaint against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie related to the “Bridgegate” lane-closure scandal can move forward, a judge ruled on Thursday, referring the case to state prosecutors to consider possible crim…
Dylan the odd man out as U.S.-based foreigners take most 2016 Nobels
OSLO (Reuters) – Scientists based in the United States won the lion’s share of this year’s Nobel prizes in science and economics but all of them were immigrants, making literature laureate Bob Dylan the only U.S.-born winner of 2016.
Drownings push hurricane death toll to 19 in flooded North Carolina
KINSTON, N.C. (Reuters) – Rivers swollen by rainfall from Hurricane Matthew rose dangerously higher in North Carolina on Wednesday, prompting officials to go door to door urging residents to leave as a wide swath of the state faced its worst flooding i…
Two Boston policemen wounded in gunfight, gunman shot dead
(Reuters) – Two Boston policemen were in critical condition early on Thursday after they were shot in a gunfight with a man who was shot dead by other police officers, police said.
Survey points to higher U.S. birth rate in future: CDC
(Reuters) – More U.S. women expect to have children some time in the future than they did in 2002, according to a federal study released on Thursday, which could point to a higher U.S. birth rate.
