Pentagon to successors: keep focus on cyber, space, nukes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election, top Pentagon leaders will urge their successors to focus on four top priorities – cyber, space, nuclear deterrent and electronic warfare, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert…
Ohio man sentenced to four years for kidnapping son from mother
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio man was sentenced on Wednesday to four years in prison for taking his 5-year-old son from his mother’s house in Alabama in 2002 and living with him under false identities for 13 years.
Almost 400,000 disabled Americans eligible for student loan forgiveness
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government announced plans on Tuesday to forgive $7.7 billion in student loans for about 387,000 permanently disabled borrowers.
NFL star Will Smith shot in back eight times in New Orleans: report
(Reuters) – Slain retired NFL player was shot in the back eight times in New Orleans, WWL-TV reported on Wednesday, citing his attorney.
VW management accepts bonus cuts of at least 30 percent: source
HAMBURG/BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s top management board has agreed to cut executives’ bonus payments by at least 30 percent, one person familiar with VW’s bonus negotiations said, as the carmaker struggles to resolve a dispute over compensation.
Device harnessing thoughts allows quadriplegic to use his hands
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Ohio man paralyzed in an accident while diving in waves can now pick up a bottle or play the video game Guitar Hero thanks to a small computer chip in his brain that lets his mind guide his hands and fingers, bypassing his dam…
Judge orders ‘affluenza’ Texan to spend about two years in jail
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas county judge sentenced the so-called “affluenza” teen on Wednesday to serve four consecutive 180-day terms in jail for violating a juvenile probation deal that kept him out of prison after he killed four people whi…
Trial for accused Charleston church shooter delayed to January
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Wednesday delayed the murder trial of the accused gunman in last summer’s Charleston church massacre by six months and rescheduled the proceedings for Jan. 17, 2017.
Loaded handgun found inside car of slain NFL star Will Smith
(Reuters) – Slain retired NFL player Will Smith had a fully loaded handgun in his car when he was shot dead over the weekend in New Orleans by a motorist who had rammed his vehicle into the former football player’s car, police said on Tuesday.
Sean Parker sets up $250 million cancer immunotherapy collaboration
(Reuters) – A $250 million grant from Silicon Valley billionaire Sean Parker, announced on Wednesday, aims to speed development of more effective cancer treatments by fostering collaboration among leading researchers in the field.
