U.S. unveils guidelines to reduce salt in restaurant, packaged food
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From pizzas and soups to deli meats, dips and hamburgers, Americans’ diets are often packed with salt. On Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration moved to cut average salt consumption by a third in an effort to reduce heart at…
Pittsburgh abortion clinic buffer zone challenge is revived
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived a challenge to a Pittsburgh ordinance that established a 15-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics in that city, to make it easier for patients to avoid protesters.
Texas’ Brazos River hits century high, Houston braces for floods
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – The Brazos River in Texas surged to its highest level in more than a century in an area outside of Houston on Wednesday after floods killed at least six people, damaged hundreds of buildings and turned roads into lakes over the …
U.S. will not charge Minneapolis police in shooting of black man
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday they would not bring charges against two Minneapolis police officers involved in the shooting death of a 24-year-old black man, due to insufficient evidence.
Polish government says will extradite Polanski to U.S. if wins court approval
WARSAW/KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) – Poland intends to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 child sex conviction if the supreme court approves the move, the justice minister said on Wednesday, in a new twist to a decades-lon…
Court denies motion to reconsider transgender bathroom ruling
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday denied a motion to reconsider its ruling that gave a Virginia transgender high school student access to the bathroom of his gender identity.
Criminal charges possible in killing of Cincinnati gorilla
CINCINNATI (Reuters) – The parents of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure in Cincinnati, prompting the killing of the endangered animal in order to rescue the child, are the target of an investigation into the incident, police said on Tu…
General Mills recalls flour over possible link to E.coli outbreak
(Reuters) – General Mills Inc on Tuesday issued a voluntary recall of about 10 million pounds of flour, saying it was working with health officials to investigate an outbreak of E. coli that had sickened 38 people in 20 U.S. states.
Former Oklahoma reserve deputy sentenced to four years for manslaughter
TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – A former Oklahoma reserve deputy convicted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man being subdued by regular deputies last year was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison for second-degree manslaughter.
Evacuations ordered as Texas’ flooded Brazos River tops record
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Record flooding along the swollen Brazos River in Texas on Tuesday prompted mandatory evacuations after at least six people died in the worst floods in more than 100 years.
