Milwaukee Brewers minor-league baseball player comes out as gay: report
(Reuters) – A first baseman for the minor league Helena Brewers, a rookie affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, has come out publicly as gay, a first for an active player connected with Major League Baseball, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel n…
Biden calls Chattanooga shooter a ‘perverted jihadist’ during memorial
(Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday called the man who fatally shot four U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor a “perverted jihadist” during a eulogy for the servicemen at a memorial in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Trump says he’d deport undocumented immigrants as U.S. president
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential contender Donald Trump would deport all undocumented immigrants and rescind U.S. President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration if he is elected to the White House, he said in an interview with N…
Arrest made in shooting that prompted New Mexico 911 dispatcher to resign
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) – (Note strong language in paragraph 10)Police in New Mexico have arrested the 18-year-old son of a state lawmaker in connection with a drive-by shooting that made headlines after it was revealed that an emergency serv…
AT&T helped U.S. NSA in spying on Internet traffic: N.Y. Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Telecommunications powerhouse AT&T Inc has provided extensive assistance to the U.S. National Security Agency as the spy agency conducts surveillance on huge volumes of Internet traffic passing through the United States, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing newly disclosed NSA documents.
Arrest made in shooting that prompted New Mexico 911 dispatcher to resign
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) – Police in New Mexico have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with a drive-by shooting that made headlines after it was revealed that an emergency services dispatcher had hung up on a teenage girl who was tryin…
Biden calls Chattanooga shooter a ‘perverted jihadist’ during memorial
(Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday called the man who fatally shot four U.S. Marines and a Navy sailor a “perverted jihadist” during a eulogy for the servicemen at a memorial in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
More than a thousand mourn Texas teen fatally shot by officer
ARLINGTON Texas (Reuters) – More than 1,000 mourners attended a funeral on Saturday for Christian Taylor, an unarmed 19-year-old African American fatally shot by a white officer in Texas in an incident that raised fresh attention of police treatment of…
Suspected Connecticut bank robber shot by police after chase
MILFORD, Conn. (Reuters) – A suspected bank robber shot by police after a high-speed chase that spanned several Connecticut towns is in critical condition at a hospital in the state capital of Hartford, officials said Saturday.
Glitch that canceled more than 400 U.S. flights is fixed – FAA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Disrupted air travel along the heavily populated U.S. East Coast was resuming normal operations on Saturday after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it had fixed an automation problem at an air traffic center that led …
