Police feeling under siege after attacks: Attorney General
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday that American police officers were feeling under siege following the recent attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge and that the Justice Department was offering training as one way …
Southwest Airlines says investigating technical issues
(Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co is investigating technical issues impacting all its online platforms, the company tweeted on Wednesday.
U.S., Enbridge reach $177 million pipeline spill settlement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge Inc has agreed to pay $177 million in penalties and improved safety measures in a settlement with the U.S. government tied to one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history.
California man pleads guilty to charges related to Gerova stock scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A 73-year-old Californian charged with running a scheme with three of his sons to manipulate the stock price of reinsurer Gerova Financial Group Ltd and then dump the shares at inflated prices pleaded guilty to fraud on Wednesday, …
U.S. tentatively approves four carriers for daytime flights to Haneda airport
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said on Wednesday he is tentatively approving daytime flights to Japan’s Haneda Airport from the United States for American Airlines Group Inc, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines Inc, an…
U.S. charges two HSBC executives over forex-related scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A senior HSBC Holdings Plc manager has been arrested and charged alongside a former foreign exchange executive with engaging in a scheme to front-run a $3.5 billion transaction by one of the bank’s clients, U.S. prosecutors said o…
Parents of boy killed by alligator at Disney resort will not sue
(Reuters) – The parents of a two-year-old boy drowned by an alligator at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida last month “are broken” but will not sue over the incident, the couple said in a statement on Wednesday.
Bikers ride through Baton Rouge in support of fallen police
Several hundred bikers gathered in Baton Rouge on Tuesday and rode in a procession to the city’s police headquarters in a show of support for the policemen shot and killed by a gunman at the weekend.
Two New York officers caught in crossfire, not targeted: police
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two New York City police officers who were first said to have been shot at while on foot patrol were not targeted in the shooting, police said on Wednesday.
Beating rivals and the odds, Trump captures Republican nomination
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Thirteen months after launching an improbable bid for the White House, Donald Trump captured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, having vanquished 16 party rivals, warred with much of its establishment and prov…
