U.S. Supreme Court blocks Alabama lesbian mother adoption ruling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday blocked an Alabama judicial ruling that refused to recognize a gay woman’s parental rights over three children she adopted with her lesbian partner and raised from birth.
Pentagon eyes $12-15 billion for early work on new technologies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon’s fiscal 2017 budget request will include $12 billion to $15 billion to fund war gaming, experimentation and the demonstration of new technologies aimed at ensuring a continued military edge over China and Russia, De…
U.S. Supreme Court reinstates Kentucky inmate’s death sentence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the death sentence of a Kentucky man convicted in the 1997 murders of a Louisville couple including a pregnant woman who was strangled and whose body was found with scissors sticking ou…
Jury to decide fate of Massachusetts teenager charged with murder
SALEM, Mass. (Reuters) – A jury is set to weigh the fate of Massachusetts teenager accused of raping and murdering his high school math teacher, after his lawyer and a prosecutor painted starkly contrasting portraits of him in closing statements at his…
New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Feb 19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration, responding to heightened concerns about rogue drone flights near airports, unveiled a pre-Christmas rule on Monday requiring drone hobbyists as young as 13 years old to register their unmanned…
From Snowpocalypse to trigger-happy dog, no shortage of American oddness in 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wacky weather, animal antics and outrageous human behavior made headlines in 2015, with America’s quirky tales ranging from a Florida man arrested for landing a small helicopter on the U.S. Capitol grounds to a dog named Trigger wh…
U.S. top court leaves intact jury award in Los Angeles police shooting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the city of Los Angeles and two policemen on Monday, leaving in place a $5.7 million judgment a jury awarded to a man left paralyzed from the waist down after the officers shot him in …
U.S. Supreme Court rejects human rights suit against Occidental
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a human rights lawsuit against Occidental Petroleum Corp and a security contractor that had accused them of complicity in a deadly 1998 bombing by Colombia’s military of a villa…
Planned Parenthood files federal lawsuit against Ohio health department
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Attorneys for Planned Parenthood sued Ohio on Sunday, asking a judge to block what it argues is an attempt by the state’s top attorney to stop the organization from providing abortion services, court filings showed.
Obama runs wild in Alaska, drinks catkin tea for TV adventure show
NEW YORK (Reuters) – They shared tea made out of catkins, ate wild salmon picked over by a bear, talked about being a dad and discussed climate change – all while snipers kept watch from the mountains and the official food taster looked on warily.
