U.S. charges ‘Porn’s New King’ with tribal bond fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man once dubbed “Porn’s New King” before he was accused of stock fraud was hit on Wednesday with new criminal charges over an alleged scheme to cheat investors and a Native American tribe out of tens of millions of dollars.
Uzbek citizen arrested for New York-based Islamic State plot
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An Uzbek citizen has become the sixth individual to be charged for participating in a New York-based conspiracy to provide support to the militant group Islamic State, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Top U.S. House Democrat expects movement on Puerto Rico bill in days
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives could not agree to the latest Republican bill on Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, but the two sides should be able to produce a deal within a few days, the top House Democrat said on Wedne…
Man who killed two in Massachusetts rampage seemed ‘disturbed’: official
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Massachusetts man who fatally stabbed two people in a string of apparently unprovoked attacks on Tuesday, before an off-duty deputy sheriff shot him dead, had been acting in a disturbed fashion before the rampage, officials said on…
Chinese state entities argue they have ‘sovereign immunity’ in U.S. courts
BEIJING (Reuters) – Some Chinese state-owned entities, backed by the key government agency that oversees major state industrial companies, have adopted a controversial defense when they face U.S. lawsuits: You can’t touch us because we enjoy sovereign …
Boston tops U.S. cities for digital entrepreneurship: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boston is the U.S. city best placed to capitalize on the shift to a digital economy, with the tech-centered San Francisco Bay Area second as it lost ground because of worsening quality of life, a report said on Wednesday.
Texas man surrenders in case involving toddlers who were tied up
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A man suspected of child abuse after two toddlers were found tied up in the backyard of his San Antonio home has surrendered to police, authorities said on Wednesday.
Exxon Beaumont refinery worker hit by pipe, dies: sources
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A contract worker was killed after being struck by a piece of pipe while working on a crude unit overhaul early on Wednesday morning at Exxon Mobil Corp’s Beaumont, Texas refinery, two sources familiar with the incident said.
Ambac sues Puerto Rico highway agency over toll road deal
(Reuters) – Ambac Financial Group Inc., a bond insurer with significant exposure to Puerto Rico, on Wednesday said it has sued the island’s highway authority to block a lease extension for the operation of two toll roads in the U.S. territory.
Victims of long-ago abuse find justice in some U.S. states
(Reuters) – Minnesota’s reform of child sex abuse laws has given Laura Adams a chance to come forward with accusations she long feared to make public: that an employee of a children’s theater in Minneapolis abused her in the early 1980s when she was a …
