New York City’s ‘responsible banking’ law ruled unconstitutional
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s “responsible banking” law, which called for banks holding the city’s over $6 billion in deposits to document how well they meet the needs of low-income neighborhoods, is unconstitutional, a U.S. federal judge has ru…
Second firefighter dies battling California forest fires
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A 21-year-old Sacramento-area man became the second California firefighter to die battling wildfire this year, as a series of lightning strikes ignited blazes in the drought-parched Sierra Nevada over the weekend.
Family calls off private search for Florida teens lost at sea
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – The families of two 14-year-old boys from South Florida have ended a private search for the teens who disappeared last month on a boating trip in the Atlantic Ocean, local media reported.
China hacked private emails of U.S. officials since 2010, NBC reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chinese hackers have been accessing the private emails of top U.S. national security and trade officials since April 2010, according to an NBC News report on Monday, citing a U.S. intelligence official and top secret document.
Wastewater spill from Colorado gold mine triples in volume: EPA
(Reuters) – Some 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater, triple previous estimates, have poured from a defunct Colorado gold mine into local streams since a team of Environmental Protection Agency workers accidentally triggered the spill last week, EPA …
Ferguson protests mostly peaceful on anniversary of Brown shooting
FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – Hundreds of people marched, prayed and observed minutes of silence in Ferguson, Missouri on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer a year ago.
Texas suspect’s 13-year-old son among family of eight shot dead
(Reuters) – A Texas man has been charged with capital murder after a family of six children, one of them his own son, and two adults were found shot to death in a house in Houston, officials said on Sunday.
Questions abound in police shooting death of black Texas teen
DALLAS (Reuters) – Texas police on Sunday were trying to figure out what prompted a black teenager to smash his car into an auto dealership, and why a white police officer still in training fatally shot the unarmed 19-year-old four times.
Quiet victims at peace with Colorado gunman’s life sentence
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – When the Colorado gunman’s defense lawyer rose to make her closing argument and the other families of the murder victims of James Holmes walked out of the courtroom, Scott and Kathleen Larimer stayed in their seats.
Protesters take to Ferguson streets to mark anniversary of Brown killing
FERGUSON, Mo (Reuters) – More than 200 protesters carrying bullhorns, drums and signs demonstrated against police in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday night, with some placing the roasted head of a pig on a barricade in front of officers.
