Texas judge drops misdemeanor charge against anti-abortion activist
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas judge on Tuesday dropped a misdemeanor charge regarding the purchase of human tissue against an anti-abortion activist indicted for using a fake driver’s license ID to aid secret filming inside a Planned Parenthood fac…
Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ goes on trial
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page appeared in a Los Angeles court for a civil trial that opens on Tuesday in which they are accused of stealing the opening chords of their 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven…
Wolf dens, not lone wolves, the norm in U.S. Islamic State plots
NEW YORK (Reuters) – If Omar Mateen acted alone in plotting the massacre of 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub, he would be the exception rather than the rule in U.S. cases involving suspected Islamic State supporters.
Baltimore’s National Aquarium to set up dolphin sanctuary
(Reuters) – Baltimore’s National Aquarium will create the first U.S. dolphin sanctuary and transfer its eight dolphins there, the aquarium said on Tuesday.
Two men convicted in Oklahoma murder of ‘Cathouse’ prostitute
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – An Oklahoma jury convicted two men of killing four people in a 2009 drug house murder spree whose victims included a former prostitute featured on the HBO reality show “Cathouse,” court officials said on Tuesday.
After Florida shooting, Trump hardens stance on Muslims
MANCHESTER, N.H./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Donald Trump on Monday placed responsibility for a mass shooting in Florida squarely at the feet of radical Muslims, who he said were entering the country amidst a flood of refugees and “trying to take…
Democrats link guns to terrorism, turn to gun control after Orlando
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama lamented the ease with which extremists can get firearms in the United States as “crazy” and Hillary Clinton said “terrorists” were using assault weapons to kill Americans, as Democrats on Monday renewed an…
Indian group celebrates birthday of ‘savior of humanity’ Trump
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Hindu fringe group celebrated the 70th birthday of Donald Trump in the Indian capital on Tuesday, calling the U.S. presidential contender the “savior of humanity” who could end the global threat posed by Islamist militants.
U.N. rights boss urges tighter U.S. gun control after Orlando killings
GENEVA (Reuters) – The top United Nations human rights official called on U.S. authorities on Tuesday to adopt “robust gun control measures” to protect citizens in the wake of the latest mass killing in Orlando, Florida.
No sign of hostage situation in search at city building in Albuquerque: police
(Reuters) – Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, searched a government building in the city’s downtown on Monday, after a report of a possible shooting or hostage situation, but they found no sign of any attack, a police spokesman said.
