Boston subway train leaves station with passengers, no driver
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Boston commuter train left its station on Thursday morning with passengers on board but no driver, traveling one stop toward downtown before transit officials deactivated it.
Two dead, thousands without power after U.S. Pacific Northwest storms
PORTLAND, Ore./SEATTLE (Reuters) – Drenching storms triggered mudslides and flooding in the Pacific northwest on Wednesday, knocking out power to thousands of people and leaving two women dead in Oregon, authorities and local media reported.
Majority of U.S. millennials support troops to fight ISIS: poll
BOSTON (Reuters) – A majority of U.S. young adults support sending ground troops to fight Islamic State militants, though fewer than one in five would be willing to serve themselves, according to a Harvard University poll released on Thursday.
U.S. top court divided over affirmative action in college admissions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative justices expressed deep doubt on Wednesday about a university student admissions policy that gives preferences to racial minorities during a testy U.S. Supreme Court session in a case that could decide the fate of pr…
Six-year-old Kentucky boy gets ‘bionic’ hand courtesy of 3-D printing technology
LOUISVILLE (Reuters) – A 6-year-old Kentucky boy born with a malformed right hand because of a rare disorder has received what he called his best Christmas gift ever – a “bionic” prosthetic made from 3-D printing technology.
Suspect in deadly Planned Parenthood attack declares self guilty
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) – The man accused of shooting three people to death and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last month declared himself guilty and a “warrior for the babies” during an outburst in court on W…
FLOTUS on the track: Michelle Obama makes rap video for college campaign
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Striding out of the White House in slow motion, sporting oversized sunglasses, Michelle Obama lays down a rap track aimed at raising the star power of math majors and engineering students.
Wal-Mart enters mobile payment with launch of Walmart Pay
(Reuters) – Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would launch ‘Walmart Pay,’ to become the first U.S. retailer to offer its own payment feature to expand consumer payment options and increase the speed of checkouts.
California police open hate crime probe in vandalization of Sikh temple
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Police in Southern California have opened a hate crime investigation into the vandalization of a Sikh house of worship in Orange County that was defaced with Islamaphobic and gang graffiti, the New York Times reported on Thursda…
Two New Jersey cities top November U.S. metro foreclosure rates
(Reuters) – Two New Jersey metropolitan areas, Atlantic City and Trenton, had the highest U.S. metro foreclosure rates in November, RealtyTrac data showed on Thursday.
