Connecticut man pleads guilty to scaling White House fence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Connecticut man pleaded guilty on Monday to climbing over the White House fence on Thanksgiving Day last year draped in a U.S. flag, federal prosecutors said.
U.S. man charged with sexual abuse of Nepali boys amid fears trafficking rising
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in Nepal have charged an American man of luring boys from villages and taking them to the capital for sex, an official said on Monday, amid concerns that last year’s devastating earthquakes have caused a …
Five children, four adults die in Tennessee house fire
(Reuters) – Five children and four adults were killed early on Monday in a Memphis, Tennessee house fire that was the city’s deadliest in nearly a century, officials said.
Tropical Storm Ian forms southeast of Bermuda: NHC
(Reuters) – Ian, the ninth tropical storm of the season, has formed over the Atlantic and is located about 1,140 miles (1,840 km) southeast of Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday.
Miss Arkansas crowned Miss America 2017 in pageant’s 96th year
(Reuters) – Savvy Shields, a college student from Arkansas, won the annual Miss America pageant on Sunday after impressing judges with a jazz dance routine and her answer to a question about her take on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Gulf states condemn law letting 9/11 families sue Saudi Arabia
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Saudi-dominated Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Monday condemned a law passed by the United States Congress last week that would allow the families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue the kingdom’s government for damages.
Six shot, one dead, at Alabama rally: media reports
(Reuters) – Six people were shot, one of them fatally, when gunfire broke out after a rally at a Birmingham public housing project on Sunday, media reports said.
A raised fist, more kneeling players as NFL anthem protest spreads
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters raised his fist and several Miami Dolphins players knelt during performances of the U.S. national anthem on Sunday, the latest gestures in the National Football League to draw attent…
Families remember 9/11 victims 15 years after attacks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Americans remembered the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday at a ceremony marking 15 years, with the recital of their names, tolling church bells and a tribute in lights at the site where New York City’s massive twin t…
Would-be Reagan assassin released from psychiatric hospital
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley Jr. was released from a psychiatric hospital on Saturday, media reports said, 35 years after he shot U.S. President Ronald Reagan in an attack prompted by a deranged obsession with the a…
