U.S. government blocks release of new CIA torture details
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. government officials have blocked the release of 116 pages of defense lawyers’ notes detailing the torture that Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah says he experienced in CIA custody, defense lawyers said on Thursday.
Transgender San Francisco inmates to be housed by gender identity
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Transgender women inmates now housed in a special wing of a men’s jail in San Francisco will soon be moved into the city detention facility for women under a new policy announced on Thursday to house all inmates based on their…
Police give sketch of child after body parts found in Chicago park
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Police released a composite sketch on Thursday of a toddler whose body parts were found over the weekend in a Chicago park, as investigators continued to scour the area and search for leads.
New U.S. prosecution policy is recipe for corporate conflict: lawyers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Company executives may be quicker to hire lawyers and less likely to cooperate with investigations because of a renewed push by U.S. prosecutors to put individuals in prison instead of only levying big fines on corporations that br…
Police focus on seizing guns to combat Chicago gang murders
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two Cook County Sheriff’s officers reached under trash bins in an alley just before midnight in Chicago’s crime-heavy Austin neighborhood, looking for a hidden gun.
U.S. jury awards $17 million to abused migrant women farm workers
MIAMI (Reuters) – A federal jury awarded almost $17.5 million to five former female employees of a South Florida farm who said they were raped and harassed at a vegetable packing plant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced …
New U.S. prosecution policy is recipe for corporate conflict: lawyers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Company executives may be quicker to hire lawyers and less likely to cooperate with investigations because of a renewed push by U.S. prosecutors to put individuals in prison instead of only levying big fines on corporations that br…
U.S. government blocks release of new CIA torture details
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. government officials have blocked the release of 116 pages of defense lawyers’ notes detailing the torture that Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah says he experienced in CIA custody, defense lawyers said on Thursday.
Florida man arrested in alleged Kansas City 9/11 memorial bomb plot
(Reuters) – A Florida man has been arrested and accused of plotting to detonate a pressure-cooker bomb at a memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday…
Police now probing 11 possible highway shootings in Phoenix area
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona police are investigating 11 possible vehicle shootings in recent days along a major highway running through Phoenix after a driver discovered a bullet hole in the side of his commercial truck on Thursday, authorities said.
