Top U.S. human rights groups fare poorly on openness about funds, watchdog says
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three top U.S. human rights groups scored at the bottom among think tanks as to their openness about the sources of their funding, a watchdog group said on Wednesday.
Chinese national gets 30 months in U.S. prison for military exports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Chinese national has been sentenced to 30 months in a U.S. prison for smuggling or trying to smuggle to China high-tech U.S. military hardware, including night vision and thermal imaging rifle scopes, the U.S. Justice Departmen…
New Jersey man admits to helping disguise foreign political contributions
(Reuters) – A New Jersey limousine driver pleaded guilty on Wednesday to helping funnel $80,000 in foreign contributions to President Barack Obama’s joint fundraising committee in 2012 so that foreign national could attend a campaign event.
Two killed, one presumed dead after fiery Texas freight train crash
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Authorities have found the bodies of two missing railroad workers killed after two freight trains crashed and set off a massive fireball, railroad officials said, while another worker is presumed dead.
BancorpSouth to settle U.S. charges of racial bias against home buyers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – BancorpSouth Inc has agreed to pay $10.6 million to settle civil charges that it discriminated against African-American prospective home buyers in the Memphis area as well as in parts of neighboring Mississippi and Arkansas, the …
Charges dismissed against graffiti artist Fairey in Detroit: reports
(Reuters) – A judge in Detroit has dismissed charges against famed street artist Shepard Fairey, creator of the 2008 Barack Obama “Hope” poster, who was accused last year of defacing several properties in the city, local media reported on Wednesday.
‘She wanted me to suffer’ says Texas husband whose wife killed daughters
(Reuters) – The Texas mother who gunned down her two daughters at a suburban Houston home was angry about a pending marriage for one of them, and may have let her husband survive so he would have to live with the anguish of losing his family, police sa…
Californians keep searching for ensnared blue whale to free it
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The search for a blue whale tangled in commercial crabbing gear off California’s coast stretched into a second day on Wednesday as whale watchers, leisure boaters and fishermen hoped for a glimpse of the ensnared animal and a se…
Six Honduran police officers indicted on U.S. drug charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Six members of the Honduran National Police were indicted on Wednesday on U.S. charges that they conspired to import cocaine into the United States and engaged in related firearms offenses.
Arizona man kills two relatives in child custody dispute
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A grandfather angered over a judge’s ruling in a child custody dispute opened fire outside an eastern Arizona courthouse, killing the mother and grandmother of the two children involved in the case, authorities said on Wednesday.
