Black Milwaukee sheriff takes on Black Lives Matter movement
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – David Clarke, the African-American sheriff of Milwaukee County, is a man on a mission – to rebut allegations that U.S. police have been too quick to use deadly force against blacks in a spate of killings from New York to Ferguson,…
Exclusive: Boeing plans layoffs for airplane engineers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Boeing Co said on Friday that it is considering layoffs of airplane engineers, a plan that it said may cause it to reorganize or consolidate its engineering teams, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters.
Longtime black San Francisco church faces eviction amid gentrification
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A long-standing and unconventional African American church in what was once the heart of San Francisco’s thriving black population is just days from eviction, marking the latest example of the region’s ongoing renting crisis a…
Michigan governor’s aides urged switch away from Flint River
DETROIT (Reuters) – Quality problems prompted two of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s top lawyers to urge that Flint be moved back to the Detroit water system just months after a decision to draw water supply from the Flint River, according to emails re…
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.”
