Oil train risks affect many U.S. schools, group says
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Thousands of U.S. schools sit along rail corridors used to carry toxic substances such as crude oil and would be at risk in the event of a derailment, an environmental group said on Tuesday as it called for a temporary halt on oil t…
As Pope visit nears, U.S. Catholic Church faces financial strain
BOSTON (Reuters) – When Pope Francis makes his first visit to the United States this month he will face a national Catholic Church whose finances are staggering under a shrinking membership and huge payouts to sex-abuse victims, threatening to undermin…
Planned Parenthood faces unexpected challenge from Obamacare
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Angered by videos in which Planned Parenthood officials discussed compensation for providing fetal tissue from abortions, Republicans in Congress are again demanding an end to government funding for the nearly 100-year-old provider of women’s health services. 
In haven for Mideast emigres, a hope U.S. will take more refugees
DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) – Akeel Asady, the usually cheerful part-owner of Iraqi Kabob restaurant, lifted a kitchen towel draped over his left shoulder to wipe tears that formed seconds after he spoke of the 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned last week during his refugee family’s desperate attempt to make it to Greece.
At least four people dead in small plane crash in Colorado mountains
(Reuters) – Rescue teams in Colorado were working to recover the bodies of at least four people who died in a small plane crash in a rugged area of the Rocky Mountains, federal and local officials said on Monday.
Obama orders government contractors to offer paid sick leave
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential candidates for advocating what he said w…
Funeral of Illinois police officer draws hundreds of mourners
ANTIOCH, Ill. (Reuters) – Hundreds of mourners gathered in Illinois on Monday for the funeral of police officer Charles Joseph Gliniewicz, who was shot last week while pursuing three suspects who are still on the loose.
Jailed Kentucky clerk seeks emergency injunction in gay marriage case
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) – Lawyers for jailed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis said on Monday they had asked an appellate court to force Governor Steve Beshear to let her refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses based on her religious convictions.
‘Glaring errors’ led court to annul Knox murder conviction
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s top court threw out a conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British flatmate because of “glaring errors” in the case against her, a document showed on Monday.
Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwe lion to return to work Tuesday: report
(Reuters) – The Minnesota dentist whose killing of Zimbabwean lion Cecil sparked global outcry from animal lovers has maintained that the hunt was legal and says he plans to work on Tuesday, U.S. media reported.
