Obama signs disaster declaration for California wildfire: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a disaster declaration to make federal aid available to Northern California residents impacted by a major wildfire, the White House said.
As clock ticks, Senate seeks way to avert shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Plans to avert a U.S. government shutdown began taking shape in the Senate on Tuesday, but it was still far from certain whether a dispute over funding for women’s healthcare group Planned Parenthood could be overcome.
U.S. drugmaker Turing to roll back 5,000 percent price hike
(Reuters) – Turing Pharmaceuticals, a small company that generated outrage over raising the cost of an old anti-infective drug by more than 5,000 percent, said on Tuesday it would roll back that increase to make sure it remains affordable.
China’s president arrives in Seattle to meet tech titans, start U.S. visit
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping landed in Seattle on Tuesday to kick off a week-long U.S. visit that will include meetings with U.S. business leaders, a black-tie state dinner at the White House hosted by President Barack Obama and an …
Iraqi man charged with war crimes scolded for dropping lawyers
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) – An Iraqi man accused of being an al Qaeda commander in Afghanistan was lectured by a military judge for firing his defense attorneys on Tuesday, a move that will further postpone his trial at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba. 
Native Americans want name change for Wyoming’s Devils Tower
(Reuters) – Spiritual leaders of the Sioux and more than a dozen Native American tribes want U.S. officials to rename Devils Tower, an iconic rock formation and national monument in Wyoming that has religious and cultural importance to the tribes.
U.S. turkey stocks send mixed signals for winter holidays
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The overall amount of frozen turkeys in U.S. warehouses last month declined from July and August 2014, after an outbreak of bird flu killed over nine million turkeys, experts said after Tuesday’s government monthly cold storage repo…
Lawyers seek to cancel execution date for Oklahoma inmate Glossip
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Lawyers for an Oklahoma death row inmate asked the state’s Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday to cancel the execution date for Richard Glossip, saying the court violated state law when it issued a September date for his leth…
Select Comfort puts Sleepy’s defamation lawsuit to rest
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge in Long Island, New York on Tuesday dismissed bedding retailer Sleepy’s LLC’s eight-year-old defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against rival Select Comfort Corp, which makes “Sleep Number” adjustable beds.
Two Kentucky prisoners captured after failed jail escape
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – Two men in custody on minor offenses used bed sheets to escape a Kentucky jail late on Monday and were recaptured within hours, one with broken bones, officials said on Tuesday.
