Connecticut man sentenced to six months for shooting at mosque
(Reuters) – A Connecticut man who pleaded guilty to shooting at an empty mosque near his home in an alcohol-fueled rage following the November attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead was sentenced on Friday to six months in federal prison.
Bloomberg looks West after bankrolling Philadelphia soda tax win
NEW YORK (Reuters) – After successfully funding a campaign to pass a soda tax in Philadelphia, billionaire Michael Bloomberg is preparing to fund similar efforts in several other cities, giving new momentum to measures seeking to limit soft drink cons…
Drone flight near Washington Monument leads to citation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man has been cited for flying a drone near the Washington Monument, police said on Friday, a flight that occurred in one of the country’s most heavily restricted air zones.
Chicago man shot dead while live streaming on Facebook
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago man was shot and killed while live streaming a video on Facebook, police said on Friday, just days after a double-homicide in France in which the killer later took to Facebook Live to encourage more violence.
Memorial service marks a year after Charleston, S.C., church massacre
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – The city of Charleston came together on Friday for a memorial and other events to mark the first anniversary of the murders of nine members of a Bible study group in what prosecutors called a racially motivated hate crime.
Defense rests in Baltimore officer’s murder trial in Freddie Gray case
(Reuters) – Defense lawyers rested their case on Friday in the trial of a Baltimore police officer charged with murder in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray last year, a court spokeswoman said.
Connecticut ex-Governor Rowland’s conviction upheld on appeal
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday upheld former Connecticut Governor John Rowland’s conviction on charges that he tried to use sham contracts to hide his political work in two U.S. congressional campaigns.
Lifting U.S. curbs on gay blood donors seen years away: experts
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators are under increasing pressure to remove restrictions keeping most gay and bisexual men from donating blood, but experts say any change would require years of research to guarantee the safety of the…
U.S. transgender woman’s journey turns into constitutional fight
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (Reuters) – Kate Lynn Blatt once lived as a woman at home but went to work in a battery factory as a man, a painful phase in her gender transition that would later propel her to the forefront of a constitutional battle for transgender r…
Obama meets Orlando massacre survivors, assails homegrown terrorism
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday met survivors of a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed and said the United States must act to control gun violence and fight what he called homegrown te…
