March to Washington begins with civil rights rally in Selma
(Reuters) – NAACP leaders launched a 40-day march across the U.S. South on Saturday with a rally in Selma, Alabama, drawing on that city’s significance in the 1960s civil rights movement to call attention to the issue of racial injustice in modern Amer…
Private equity pioneer Jerome Kohlberg dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jerome Kohlberg Jr., a founder of investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and a pioneer of the leveraged buyout, died on Thursday at his home in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, aged 90.
Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland had been warned over conduct: AP
(Reuters) – The Texas trooper who arrested a black woman later found hanged to death in jail was warned about his “unprofessional conduct” in 2014, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.
Rapper Snoop Dogg stopped in Italy airport with $422,000 in cash
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police stopped California rapper Snoop Dogg on Friday as he prepared to board a private plane bound for Britain with $422,000 in cash in his Louis Vuitton luggage, said an Italian lawyer representing the entertainer.
Sleepy Sturgis, South Dakota revs up for mammoth motorcycle rally
STURGIS, S.D. (Reuters) – Outside the Knuckle Saloon, co-owner Ken McNenny lights a cigarette, leans on a bar and nods to a steady stream of motorcycles humming up and down the street days before the official start of the annual rally in Sturgis, South…
Accused Russian Taliban depicted in U.S. court as assault mastermind
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Accused Taliban fighter Irek Hamidullin, the first military prisoner from Afghanistan to be tried in U.S. federal court, was portrayed by prosecutors and testimony Friday as the commander behind an attack on U.S. and Afghan fo…
Mexican judge suspends U.S. extradition order for fugitive ‘Chapo’ Guzman
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican judge temporarily suspended a U.S. extradition order on Friday for the fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman even though the federal attorney general’s office had approved it a day earlier.
Exclusive: Donald Trump’s companies have sought visas to import at least 1,100 workers
By Mica Rosenberg, Ryan McNeill, Megan Twohey and Michelle Conlin
Puerto Rico will fail to make Aug.1 payment, signaling default
(Reuters) – Puerto Rico will miss a payment on debt due Aug. 1, the governor’s chief of staff said on Friday, an event that will be considered a default by investors as the commonwealth lurches towards what could be one of the largest U.S. municipal de…
Growing California wildfire destroys homes, forces hundreds to flee
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A rapidly growing wildfire burned largely unchecked in Northern California’s ranch country on Friday after destroying three homes and forcing hundreds of people to flee.
