U.S. judge OKs class action in Arkansas Planned Parenthood lawsuit
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – A U.S. judge granted Planned Parenthood class action status on Monday for its challenge to Arkansas’ ban on Medicaid funding to the health care provider over videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group.
Police officer indicted for using Taser on Texas city councilman
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A police officer has been indicted on a misdemeanor charge for using a Taser on a councilman in Prairie View, the city where a black woman died in custody in a case that raised questions about racial bias in policing, authorit…
South Carolina college punishes 14 cadets in white hood incident
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Fourteen cadets at the Citadel military college in South Carolina have been disciplined after some were photographed wearing white pillowcases that resembled hoods worn by the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, the school said…
In coastal New Jersey, a flood of criticism for Christie follows storm
(Reuters) – Residents of New Jersey’s southern shorefront towns on Monday cleaned up homes and businesses flooded by a storm surge during the weekend’s massive blizzard and rued what they described as Governor Chris Christie’s dismissive treatment of t…
North Carolina motorist fatally shoots man trying to help him during storm: sheriff
(Reuters) – A North Carolina man accused of fatally shooting a Good Samaritan who had sought to help him when his vehicle got stuck in a snowstorm, was in jail facing a murder charge, a local sheriff said on Monday.
Treasury official calls Russia’s Putin corrupt: BBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Treasury official said the United States considers Russian President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt and that it has known this for “many, many years,” the BBC reported on Monday.
U.S. justices snub conservative lawyers over hefty legal fees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by conservative lawyers to claim $2 million in legal fees from the government in a case in which they persuaded the justices in 2013 to strike down a key part of the landmark Voting…
University of Oklahoma pledges changes after lab fined for animal mistreatment
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The University of Oklahoma has changed the way it runs a lab that uses live animals after the facility was found to have violated federal regulations for treatment that includes allowing guinea pigs the bleed to death, it said…
Florida State settles rape lawsuit involving former football star
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida State University has agreed to pay $950,000 to resolve a lawsuit accusing it of failing to adequately investigate a woman’s allegations that she was raped in 2012 by the school’s former star quarterback, Jameis Winston.
F-35 jets headed to UK air shows this summer: U.S. Marines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Marine Corps on Monday said it would send a pair of Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets to two air shows in Britain this summer, a key milestone for the $391 billion weapons program after its thwarted international de…
