New York reports first female-to-male Zika transmission via sex
CHICAGO (Reuters) – New York City’s health department on Friday reported the first documented case of sexual transmission of Zika from a woman to her male partner, raising new concerns about the spread of the virus, which is typically contracted throug…
Family of dead black teen accuses Chicago police officer of hate crime
(Editor’s Note: this story contains language that may offend some readers)
Obama orders U.S. government flags flown at half-staff to honor Nice victims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday ordered flags at the White House and other U.S. government buildings to be flown at half-staff to honor victims of the attack in Nice, France, the White House said.
Takata settles Florida air bag injury lawsuit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for a Florida woman who was left a quadriplegic after a Takata air bag inflator deployed in a 2014 crash said Friday they had settled a lawsuit against the Japanese company.
Fed’s Lockhart: Don’t count on quick ‘return to normal’
VICTOR, Idaho (Reuters) – Dennis Lockhart became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta in early 2007, with the economy still enjoying the steady growth and low unemployment of the “great moderation” and the U.S. central bank confident it cou…
Former Fox News commentator sentenced to prison for faking CIA ties
WASHINGTON – A man who has appeared on Fox News as a guest “terrorism analyst” was sentenced to 33 months in prison on Friday on charges that he fraudulently claimed to have been a CIA agent for decades, U.S. prosecutors said.
U.S. Q3 GDP seen growing at 2.6 percent: N.Y. Fed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Federal Reserve said on Friday it upgraded its view on U.S. economic growth in the third quarter to 2.61 percent from the 2.31 percent it calculated a week ago due to stronger-than-expected data on factory output in Ju…
Nurse in U.S. protest photo says she felt she had to face police
(Reuters) – The black woman photographed in a sleeveless summer dress standing firmly before police in riot gear said she felt compelled to confront the officers during a protest last weekend in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
‘Black Lives Matter’: a movement that defies definition
(This July 11 story corrects spelling of name Punch in penultimate and last paragraph)
Baltimore officers exchange gunfire with armed man, kill him: police
(Reuters) – Baltimore police officers fatally shot a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle who exchanged fire with them on Thursday on the city’s West Side, a police spokesman said.
