California voters could decide future of climate change program
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California voters could decide whether to extend the state’s pioneering climate change program beyond 2020 when they go to the polls in two years, an official within Governor Jerry Brown’s administration said on Thursday.
Texas professors ask U.S. court to ban guns in their classrooms
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Three University of Texas professors asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to give them the option of barring students from bringing guns into their classroom after the state gave some students that right under a law then went into e…
Call to reopen unsolved murder of Louisville civil rights pioneer
LOUISVILLE (Reuters) – Louisville police said on Thursday they were reviewing a request to reopen the 51-year-old unsolved murder of the city’s first female prosecutor, a civil rights pioneer who once represented boxer Muhammad Ali.
California mayor charged in youth camp strip poker scandal
(Reuters) – The mayor of Stockton, California, was arrested on Thursday on a felony eavesdropping charge stemming from a strip poker game he is accused of surreptitiously recording at a summer camp he hosts for disadvantaged inner-city children, prosec…
Obama, Senate Democrats urge Zika funding vote as reserves run low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday said it was time for Congress to lay aside politics and to act to provide additional money to combat the Zika virus before government funding dries up.
Obama warns Trump not to spread details of security briefings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama confirmed on Thursday that Donald Trump will get national security briefings ahead of the November election, but he warned the Republican candidate, whom he has called “unfit” for office, that information f…
Court denies North Carolina motion to stay decision on voter ID law
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court issued an order on Thursday denying North Carolina’s motion to stay the court’s decision last week striking down the state’s voter ID law.
Black Lives Matter activist sues Baton Rouge police over arrest
(Reuters) – A prominent activist in the Black Lives Matter movement, DeRay McKesson, on Thursday sued the chief of the Baton Rouge police department and other officials over the arrests of nearly 200 demonstrators during peaceful protests about police …
Spraying by air for mosquitoes, Florida steps up Zika fight
DORAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida began aerial spraying on Thursday to kill mosquitoes in a Miami neighborhood with the first U.S. spread of the Zika virus that can cause a rare but devastating birth defect.
San Francisco gangster ‘Shrimp Boy’ sentenced to life in prison
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison after his conviction on dozens of federal charges, including ordering the murder of a Chinatown rival, a U.S. Department of Justice s…
