Supreme Court rules for black Georgia death row inmate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively overturned a black man’s 1987 conviction for murdering a white woman, rebuking Georgia prosecutors for unlawfully excluding black potential jurors in picking an all-white jury that con…
Baltimore police officer acquitted in Freddie Gray death
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Baltimore police officer Edward Nero was acquitted on Monday of all charges in the 2015 death of black detainee Freddie Gray, the second setback for prosecutors in a case that triggered rioting and fueled the Black Lives Matter mo…
Judge halts Ohio law that blocked funds for Planned Parenthood
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A federal judge in Cincinnati temporarily blocked the implementation of a state law that would have effectively de-funded 28 Ohio Planned Parenthood clinics, in a ruling on Monday.
On Ivy League campuses, military brass find a warmer welcome
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) – As a young chemistry professor at Yale University in 1969, Gary Haller voted to boot the U.S. military’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program off the Ivy League school’s Connecticut campus.
Texas teen guilty in murder of Iraqi who had just arrived in U.S.
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Texas teenager was found guilty on Monday of murdering an Iraqi man who had just arrived in the United States and was shot as he took family pictures in an apartment parking lot last year.
U.S. justices rule against Virginia Republicans in black voters case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that Virginia’s Republican-led legislature unlawfully considered race when drawing U.S. congressional districts by packing black voters into one in a move opponents said …
Sanders rejects deal on Puerto Rico, offers alternative
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday rejected a bipartisan deal reached in the House of Representatives on legislation to address Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, calling it a concession to Wall S…
Virginia GOP sues governor over restoring voting rights to felons
RICHMOND (Reuters) – Virginia Republicans on Monday sued to nullify Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe’s order restoring voting rights to 206,000 felons, a move that could affect the November presidential election.
Supreme Court again rejects Illinois ex-governor’s corruption appeal
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected for the second time flamboyant former two-term Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s appeal of convictions on corruption charges including attempted extortion, wire fraud and other crimes.
Smoky Mountains Park euthanizes wrong bear after hiker bitten
NASHVILLE (Reuters) – Officials at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park killed the wrong bear after a man who was hiking the Appalachian Trail was bitten in the leg earlier this month, a park spokeswoman said on Monday.
