U.S. government bars troop training doctor accused of misconduct
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government has barred a former Army doctor from government contracts after two state medical boards found he performed dangerous and improper procedures on students during taxpayer-funded battlefield trauma training.
Florida Supreme Court approves overhaul of congressional maps
TAMPA/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a plan to overhaul state congressional boundaries that a judge had declared unconstitutionally gerrymandered, a move that jeopardizes several incumbents in the 2016 ele…
University head sparks firestorm with blog on ‘narcissistic’ students
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The president of a Christian college in Oklahoma touched off a social media firestorm this week for saying in a blog post that students are too quick to play the victim card and current culture has taught youth to be self-cent…
Former U.S. national security adviser Sandy Berger dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Samuel “Sandy” Berger, a U.S. national security adviser to President Bill Clinton whose reputation was later marred by his theft of classified documents after leaving office, died early on Wednesday.
Chicago police force needs a cultural change – mayor
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago’s 12,000-member police force, one of the biggest in the country and one of the most prone to use lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday in an interview with Politico.
NAACP sues Alabama over state’s voter identification law
(Reuters) – A civil rights group in Alabama targeted the state’s voter identification law in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday, saying the requirement that a photo ID be shown at the polls in order to vote discriminated against minorities.
Debt puts Puerto Rico public employees’ Christmas bonus at risk
SAN JUAN (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s public employees might have to do their part to help the Commonwealth make ends meet and miss an annual Christmas bonus, due to the island’s deteriorating finances and debt crisis.
Mother pleads guilty in beating death of son in New York church
UTICA, N.Y. (Reuters) – The mother who participated in the beating death of her son at an upstate New York church pleaded guilty on Wednesday to first and second-degree assault charges in exchange for her testimony against eight others accused in the c…
Baltimore officer was negligent in black man’s death: prosecutor
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – A Baltimore policeman on trial for the death of a black man from a spinal injury while in custody failed to secure him in the back of a van and ignored his request for medical aid, a prosecutor said in opening statements on Wednes…
New York Assembly speaker’s conviction renews call to ban outside income
NEW YORK/ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) – For years, it was one of Albany’s enduring mysteries: What exactly did New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver do for a law firm to earn the millions of dollars in income shown on his financial disclosure forms?
