Top Texas court finds state’s school financing is constitutional
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the state’s financing of schools is constitutional but said the decades-long legal battle over how it pays for the education of more than 5 million children shows the system suffers…
Berkshire’s NetJets settles U.S. immigration bias claim
(Reuters) – NetJets, the luxury plane unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, agreed to settle U.S. government charges that it discriminated against immigrant workers by requiring them to provide extra documents to prove their employment eligi…
World’s oldest person dies in New York City, aged 116
(Reuters) – The world’s oldest living person, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones, died on Thursday in New York City, a research group said.
U.S. courts delay execution of killer of Alabama policeman
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court put on hold Thursday’s scheduled execution of a 65-year-old man convicted of murdering a police officer in 1985, ordering a review of his mental competency after his lawyers said he suffers from dementia.
Texas businessman gets year in prison for failed Gambia coup
(Reuters) – A Texas businessman convicted of plotting to violate the U.S. Neutrality Act in a failed 2014 bid to overthrow the government of Gambia and install himself as president of the tiny African nation was sentenced on Thursday to a year in priso…
New Alabama law could shutter two abortion clinics near schools
(Reuters) – Alabama Governor Robert Bentley signed new abortion restrictions into law on Thursday, limiting the proximity of clinics to public schools and banning a procedure used to terminate pregnancies in the second trimester, local media reported.
U.S. Navy fires commander of sailors who were held by Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy said on Thursday that it had fired the commander of the 10 American sailors who wandered into Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf in January and were briefly held by Iran in an incident that risked becoming an in…
Worker at Exxon refinery killed by falling pipe- Texas sheriff’s office
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A 37-year-old Brownsville, Texas, man was killed after being struck in the head and neck early on Wednesday by a falling 6-foot-long, 6-inch-diameter pipe while working at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Beaumont, Texas refinery, a sheriff’s off…
Chicago triple murder suspect killed by self-inflicted wound: police
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Chicago man suspected of shooting three people to death, including the mother of one of his children, took his own life after an 11-hour standoff with police, authorities said on Thursday.
Exclusive: U.S. plans new wave of immigrant deportation raids
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found to have entered the country illegally, according to sources and an internal do…
