Judge rules U.S. government should not hold immigrant children
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The U.S. government is violating a 1997 settlement by detaining unauthorized immigrant children, and an order may be forthcoming to require the release of the minors and parents detained with them, a judge in California has rule…
Clinton: I did not send or receive classified emails on private account
WINTERSET, Iowa (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Saturday she did not send or receive classified information on a private email account while she was secretary of state.
Hundreds mourn for woman found dead in Texas jail cell
LISLE, Ill. (Reuters) – Hundreds of people on Saturday attended the funeral of Sandra Bland, a black woman found dead in a Texas jail cell days after she was arrested following a minor traffic offense, an incident said by activists to be yet another ex…
Clinton, congressional Benghazi panel at odds over appearance date
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said on Saturday the former secretary of state will testify on Oct. 22 before a House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks, but a spokesman for the panel said no date h…
Funeral on Monday for a Louisiana theater shooting victim
(Reuters) – A funeral service for one of the two women killed in a Lafayette, Louisiana theater shooting will be held on Monday, the mortuary handling the arrangements said.
Obama chides Kenya on gay rights, ready for closer security work
NAIROBI (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told Kenya on Saturday the United States was ready to work more closely in the battle against Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab, but chided his host on gay rights and said no African state should discriminat…
Two people hurt in blaze at Las Vegas Strip hotel
(Reuters) – A fire burned trees and cabanas around an outdoor pool at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday, injuring at least two people and forcing guests to evacuate, a fire official said.
San Francisco combats the stench of urine with pee-repellant paint
(Reuters) – Don’t get into a pissing match with walls in San Francisco.
Suspect fatally wounded after shooting at Florida trooper: authorities
(Reuters) – A suspect died from a gunshot wound on Saturday after he allegedly shot at a state trooper, who stopped to help the driver of a broken down vehicle along a northern Florida highway, authorities said.
Exclusive: AFL-CIO may delay endorsement of Clinton as 2016 presidential candidate – sources
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In a possible setback for Hillary Clinton, the AFL-CIO’s political committee has recommended the nation’s largest labor union federation delay endorsing a candidate for the 2016 presidential race as it seeks to push her to be more supportive of its policies on issues such as trade and wages.
