U.S. women push back against stigma, cost of menstruation
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (Reuters) – Sixteen-year-old Emma Joy and her younger sister Quinn recently spent an evening stuffing bags with a full year’s supply of tampons or sanitary pads for women who often miss work or school because they cannot afford menst…
U.S. women push back against stigma, cost of menstruation
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (Reuters) – Sixteen-year-old Emma Joy and her younger sister Quinn recently spent an evening stuffing bags with a full year’s supply of tampons or sanitary pads for women who often miss work or school because they cannot afford menst…
San Francisco commuter train derails, 14 injured
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Fourteen people were hurt, four seriously, when a San Francisco Bay Area commuter train derailed on Monday night after hitting a downed tree on the tracks, sending one of the train cars into a creek, fire and rail officials sa…
Items from late comedian Joan Rivers’ New York home up for auction
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fans of the late Joan Rivers will have the chance to buy items from the acerbic comedian’s New York home at an auction later this year, auctioneers Christie’s said on Tuesday.
Man charged in fatal shooting of Chicago boy, 9
(Reuters) – A 22-year-old man was charged on Monday with killing a 9-year-old Chicago boy who was lured from a park into an alley and shot several times in what authorities said was gang-related retaliation targeted at his father.
Egyptian man behind Donald Trump Facebook threat to leave U.S.
(Reuters) – An Egyptian aviation student in California who made a threatening Facebook post toward U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has agreed to leave the country and could be gone by the end of the week, his attorney said on Monday…
Hulk Hogan ‘humiliated’ by sex tape as Gawker trial starts
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Reuters) – Hulk Hogan told a Florida jury on Monday he was “completely humiliated” by a secretly recorded sex tape published online by Gawker, as he seeks $100 million in damages from the website in a case testing celebrity privac…
Two San Francisco deputies plead not guilty in alleged ‘Fight Club’ jail incident
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Two of the three San Francisco sheriff’s deputies charged with arranging “Fight Club” duels between jail inmates pleaded not guilty on Monday, officials said.
Peyton Manning says goodbye to NFL playing days
(Reuters) – Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning bid an emotional farewell to the National Football League on Monday after an 18-year career that established him as one of the game’s greatest quarterbacks.
Supreme Court sides with lesbian over parental rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned an Alabama judicial ruling that had refused to recognize a gay woman’s parental rights over three children she adopted with her lesbian partner and raised from birth.
