U.S. Air Force faces shortage of fighter pilots: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States Air Force is facing a shortage of more than 500 fighter pilots which is expected to widen to more than 800 by 2022, Air Force officials said on Tuesday.
Suspect wanted to torture, murder nine-year-old Chicago boy: officials
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A gang member planned to torture and kidnap a 9-year-old Chicago boy he lured from a park into an alley and fatally shot in a gang-related retaliation aimed at the boy’s father, authorities said on Tuesday.
Trial ends for U.S. Air Force vet charged with Islamic State support
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tairod Pugh, a U.S. Air Force veteran, spent months downloading violent Islamic State videos before boarding a one-way flight from his home in Egypt to Turkey in January 2015.
Trial ends for U.S. Air Force vet charged with Islamic State support
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tairod Pugh, a U.S. Air Force veteran, spent months downloading violent Islamic State videos before boarding a one-way flight from his home in Egypt to Turkey in January 2015.
Obama in ‘excellent’ health, still using nicotine gum: doctor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is in excellent health thanks to daily exercise and a good diet, driving his cholesterol level lower than it was a year and a half ago, his doctor said on Tuesday.
Michigan Uber teenage shooting victim leaves hospital
DETROIT (Reuters) – A 14-year-old Michigan girl critically wounded during a deadly shooting spree allegedly committed by an Uber driver left a Kalamazoo hospital on Tuesday after a 17-day stay, the hospital said.
Chinese man gets U.S. prison term for trying to buy ricin online
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former New York University student from China was sentenced on Tuesday to 16 years in prison after being convicted of trying to buy the deadly toxin ricin on a secretive website in order to sell it in the form of “simple and easy…
Hulk Hogan says still reeling from sex tape at Florida trial
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) – As a larger-than-life celebrity, Hulk Hogan considered it entertainment when he embellished his sex life but the Gawker news website crossed a line by posting a video of him having sex with a friend’s wife, the former p…
Finance exec arraigned in murder of physician wife in NY suburb
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York finance executive on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to murdering his pediatrician wife, who was stabbed 22 times with a kitchen knife as she showered in their suburban Scarsdale home, authorities said.
Virginia becomes first U.S. state to regulate fantasy sports
(Reuters) – Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed a bill that makes the state the first in the United States to regulate fantasy sports, a multibillion-dollar online business whose legality has been challenged across the country.
