France train attack hero Stone stabbed in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – U.S. Air Force airman Spencer Stone, one of the three Americans who thwarted an August train attack in France, was stabbed several times during a fight outside a Sacramento bar early on Thursday and was hospitalized in se…
New York City to offer low-cost healthcare to uninsured immigrants
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York will become one of the first major U.S. cities to expand low-cost healthcare to uninsured immigrants regardless of their legal status under a pilot program to launch next spring, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday.
FBI says it disrupted activities of dozens of potential IS recruits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – FBI counterterrorism agents followed dozens of potential militants around the United States full time over the summer and disrupted activities pursued by many of them, FBI Director James Comey told a congressional committee on Th…
Former head of Chicago schools will plead guilty in bribery scheme: lawyer
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The former chief executive officer of Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, plans to plead guilty to charges of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks for helping her former employers win lucrativ…
U.S. court says yoga sequence cannot be copyrighted
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled against a celebrity yogi on Thursday, finding that he is not entitled to copyright protection for a sequence of 26 yoga poses and two breathing exercises that he developed.
Flood-weary residents find food, refuge at South Carolina shelter
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) – Exhaustion was etched into Mike Ronan’s face, which he has not shaved since Sunday when record rainfall in South Carolina breached a dam near his apartment and he, his wife and their pets were told to evacuate.
Explosion hurts workers at Williams natgas facility in Louisiana
(Reuters) – Williams Cos Inc said an explosion and fire injured workers Thursday morning at a natural gas facility owned by Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co (Transco) in Gibson, Louisiana.
Netflix hikes rate for most popular plan by $1.00
(Reuters) – Netflix Inc said on Thursday it has increased the subscription rate for some new members by $1.00 a month to $9.99 in the United States, Canada and Latin America.
Former President Carter’s home-building trip to Nepal canceled
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Citing civil unrest, a humanitarian group on Thursday canceled a home-building trip next month to Nepal that was to have included former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn.
Bryant University basketball coach comes out as gay in first-person essay
BOSTON (Reuters) – An assistant basketball coach at Bryant University came out as gay in a first-person essay published by Outsports.com late Wednesday, making him the first coach of a top-level U.S. college program to do so, according to U.S. media.
