Pentagon chief pledges $1 billion boost for U.S. Air Force training
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. (Reuters) – The Pentagon’s fiscal 2017 budget will propose a $1 billion boost in spending on advanced training for the U.S. Air Force over the next five years, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Thursday.
Suspended U.N. diplomat lacks immunity from U.S. bribe case: judge
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A suspended deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic cannot claim diplomatic immunity to avoid U.S. charges that he participated in a vast bribery scheme, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday.
Unreliable phone data helped convict Maryland man in ‘Serial’ case: expert
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – The murder conviction of a Baltimore man that was explored by the 2014 podcast “Serial” was based in part on unreliable cellphone data, a forensic expert testified at a court hearing on Thursday.
Deadline to claim $63 million California lotto prize passes
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A deadline to claim a $63 million lottery prize from a ticket sold last year in Southern California passed on Thursday evening without anyone stepping forward with a valid slip, officials said, although a man has sued saying h…
NYC mayor proposes retirement plan, light-rail system in speech
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a retirement plan for private-sector workers and a new light rail system in his State of the City speech on Thursday, while indicating that social inequality was decreasing under his administr…
Michigan emails show officials knew of Flint water disease risk
(Reuters) – Emails between high-ranking Michigan state officials show they knew about an uptick in Legionnaires’ disease and it could be linked to problems with Flint water long before Governor Rick Snyder said he got information on the outbreak.
Florida extends health emergency over Zika amid growing U.S. concern
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida Governor Rick Scott expanded a public health emergency over the Zika virus on Thursday, adding a fifth county to the list of areas in the state with travel-related cases.
Biker lawyer says deadly Denver brawl was self-defense
DENVER (Reuters) – A lawyer for a biker club that had a member killed during a knife and gun fight at a Denver motorcycle show last week said on Thursday the man had been trying to disarm a drunken rival and that his comrades were acting in self-defens…
Si or no? U.S. states debate swapping computer coding for languages
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida high school student Brooke Stewart would gladly swap two required foreign language classes to become fluent in JavaScript or Python, the coding languages she uses to design computer games.
IRS resumes processing tax returns Thursday after system outage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said on Thursday it had resumed processing individual and business tax returns at about 5 p.m. EST on Thursday after a system outage.
