Obama presses for U.S. funding bill amid Republican disarray
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to avoid shutting down the government starting on Oct. 1, as Republicans in the House of Representatives struggled to get enough votes to pass a bill to fund it.
Exclusive: Target pharmacy workers form union, first in company’s history
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A group of pharmacy workers within Target Corp’s store in Brooklyn, New York, have won a vote to form a microunion, making it the first unionized store at the retailer since its inception in 1902.
Pentagon sees risk in F-35 fighter’s complex logistics program
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) – Long delays in Lockheed Martin Corp’s development of a computer-based logistics system for the F-35 fighter jet pose the biggest threat to the U.S. Air Force’s plan to declare the aircraft ready for combat next summer, …
Tsunami watch issued for Hawaii following Chile quake
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A tsunami watch was issued on Wednesday for Hawaii following a magnitude 8.3 earthquake off the coast of Chile, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
Wyoming couple charged in death of boy ‘taught lesson’ about alcohol
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A Wyoming woman and her husband have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the alcohol poisoning death of her 16-year-old son, whom they plied with mixed drinks and shots of scotch to teach him a lesson about drinking, authorities said on Wednesday.
Texas mortuary owner faces trial over rotting bodies
FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) – The owner of a Fort Worth mortuary where corpses were left to rot stood trial on Wednesday on charges of taking money from clients for funerals and not properly attending to the bodies.
Obama invites Texas student arrested for homemade clock to White House
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas teenager taken away in handcuffs this week for bringing to his Dallas-area school a homemade clock that staff mistook for a bomb won a personal invitation from President Barack Obama on Wednesday to visit the White Hou…
Los Angeles prosecutors charge surgeon, others in $150 million scam
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An orthopedic surgeon and more than a dozen associates bilked insurance companies out of more than $150 million in a scheme that included an assistant who never attended medical school but operated on patients, Los Angeles prose…
Pharmacy workers in Target’s New York store win right to form microunion
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A group of pharmacy workers within Target Corp’s store in Brooklyn, New York have won a vote to form a microunion within the store, according to a filing on the National Labor Relations Board’s website and union officials.
Accused gunman in Charleston church shooting proposes guilty plea
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – An attorney for the man accused of gunning down nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina in June said on Wednesday his client is willing to plead guilty to state murder charges if that would spare him a deat…
