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.
New York officer who shot black teen will not be prosecuted
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors have decided not to pursue criminal charges against a white New York City police officer accused of shooting an unarmed black teenager to death in the Bronx in 2012 in a case that has drawn attention from civil …
Maryland court orders officer to testify in Freddie Gray case
(Reuters) – Maryland’s high court on Tuesday ordered a Baltimore police officer to testify against five colleagues also charged in the death last year of Freddie Gray, a black man whose death triggered protests and rioting.
U.N. torture envoy appeals again for visit to U.S. prisons
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. torture investigator urged the United States on Tuesday to allow his long-sought visit to all places of detention in the country and to reform the widespread use of prolonged or indefinite solitary confinement affecting tens…
Not just for hitmen: Gun industry wants looser rules on silencers
FAIRFAX, Va. (Reuters) – The U.S. gun industry is trying to shake off the Hollywood hitman image of the gun silencer and rebrand it as a hearing-protection device in a campaign to roll back regulations that date to the 1930s.
