Clinton deflects calls to release Wall St. speech transcripts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton defended her paid speeches to Wall Street, saying in an interview that aired on Friday that they would not soften her campaign pledges for tougher regulation.
U.S. Supreme Court justice candidate list still open: White House
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – The White House said on Friday that more candidates could be added to its list of potential nominees to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Suge Knight to face August 1 trial on hit-and-run murder charge: report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight will stand trial on Aug. 1 for murder charges stemming from a fatal hit-and-run in Los Angeles, a judge ordered on Friday, according to a local media report.
Five dead in Washington state murder-suicide
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A man fatally shot four people believed to be members of his own family then kept police at bay for several hours on Friday before killing himself, but a 12-year-old girl thought to be the gunman’s daughter escaped the carnage, auth…
Iran signals lawyer yet to be appointed for detained Iranian-American
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s judiciary signaled on Saturday that Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi, detained since October in a case being watched internationally, had not been given access to a lawyer.
Massachusetts teen sentenced to at least 40 years for killing teacher
SALEM, Mass. (Reuters) – A Massachusetts judge sentenced a teenager convicted of raping and murdering his high school math teacher to serve at least 40 years in prison, and the victim’s father called the killer “pure evil.”
Federal judge being considered for US Supreme Court nomination: Law Journal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal trial judge in Washington, is being considered to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, the National Law Journal reported on Friday, citing a lawyer who was contacted as part of the vetting …
Oregon city fires its grounds-keeping goats with ‘barnyard aroma’
(Reuters) – A crew of goats brought in to devour invasive plants at a popular park in Oregon’s state capital, Salem, have been fired because they ate indiscriminately, cost nearly five times as much as human landscapers and smelled far worse, a city of…
N.Y.’s Met Museum settles litigation over ‘recommended’ admission fees
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has agreed to reword its signs and website to settle years-long litigation that claimed it deceived patrons into believing its recommended $25 admission fee was mandatory.
University of California notifies 80,000 of cyber attack
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Officials at the University of California Berkeley said on Friday that they were alerting 80,000 people, including current and former students, faculty and vendors of a cyber attack on a system that stores social security and …
