Baltimore school police chief quits, tarred by officer’s slapping of student
(Reuters) – The police chief of Baltimore’s public schools has resigned, months after an officer repeatedly slapped a student outside a high school, local media reported on Wednesday.
Sales to people on terrorism watch lists should be delayed: NRA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Rifle Association said on Wednesday it stood by its position on terrorism watch lists and access to firearms, saying sales to potential buyers who are on the lists should be delayed while they are investigated by the…
One dead, 15 hurt in tourist bus crash near Washington, D.C
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A head-on collision between a shuttle bus carrying Chinese tourists and a passenger car killed a bus passenger and injured 15 people outside Washington, D.C., police said on Wednesday.
Orlando shooting survivors mourn friends, recall traumatic night
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Best friends Demetrice Naulings and Eddie Justice often walked together hand in hand, as if they were a couple, although Naulings says he always thought of Justice as being more like his kid brother.
Lighten up at airport security lines, U.S. judge tells travelers
(Reuters) – It is the job of airport security screeners to stop terrorists, not to referee disputes between passengers waiting on line, a U.S. magistrate judge has ruled, in dismissing a lawsuit brought by an unhappy traveler.
North Dakotans soundly reject corporate farming measure
(Reuters) – North Dakotans on Tuesday soundly rejected a law enacted last year that changed decades of family-farming rules in the state by allowing corporations to own and operate dairy and hog farms.
No makeup ACT test for South Korea, HK after leak cancellation
(Reuters) – There will be no makeup ACT college-entrance exam held in South Korea and Hong Kong, which is used to gain entry to U.S. universities, after the weekend cancellation of the tests due to leaked test material, its administrator said on Wednes…
Man arrested over Los Angeles fire that killed five homeless people
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Four homeless people were found dead on Tuesday inside a burned-out office building near downtown Los Angeles, bringing to five the death toll from a fire a day earlier that led to the arrest of a man suspected of igniting the f…
U.S. Southern Baptists repudiate Confederate flag
(Reuters) – The U.S. Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution on Tuesday repudiating the Confederate battle flag as an emblem of slavery, marking the latest bid for racial reconciliation by America’s largest Protestant denomination.
Trump adds new twist to immigration proposals, but legal doubts persist
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal for suspending immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism could have a legal basis, but his assertion that it be part of a broader ban on Muslim immigrants makes it constitutionally untenable, legal scholars say.
