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…
Native Americans celebrate pause of North Dakota pipeline, vow to fight on
CANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) – Native Americans protesting construction of a North Dakota oil pipeline near land they consider sacred on Saturday quietly celebrated the U.S. government’s decision to pause construction on federally owned land, and vowed …
Dozens injured after porch collapses in Connecticut
(Reuters) – Dozens of people were injured on Saturday after a porch crowded with partygoers collapsed in Hartford near Trinity College, authorities said.
Woman kissed by sailor in famed photo at World War Two’s end dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolizing the end of World War Two, has died at age 92, media reports said on Saturday.
Security firm that employed Orlando club killer fined for inaccurate forms
(Reuters) – The security company that employed Omar Mateen, the man who in June killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was fined $151,400 for providing inaccurate psychological testing information on forms that allowed employees to ca…
U.S. returns to 1 World Trade Center 15 years after attacks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. federal government on Friday marked its return to the rebuilt 1 World Trade Center, moving its New York City offices back to Lower Manhattan 15 years after the Sept. 11 attacks that had reduced the site to rubble.
Report details horror, heroism during San Bernardino shooting
(Reuters) – A report into last year’s shooting rampage by a husband and wife in San Bernardino, California, reveals how three county workers battled to stop the shooters as they sprayed bullets into a conference room full of their colleagues.
