Boy Scouts of America lifts blanket ban on gay adult leaders
DALLAS (Reuters) – The national governing body of the Boy Scouts of America voted on Monday to lift the group’s outright ban on openly gay adult leaders and employees, dismantling a policy that has deeply divided the membership of the 105-year-old Texa…
Oklahoma top court reaffirms Ten Commandments stone at Capitol must go
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma’s Supreme Court on Monday said the state must remove a Ten Commandments stone monument first placed at its Capitol in 2012, rejecting an appeal to reconsider an earlier decision.
Biden, former critic of NY’s LaGuardia Airport, upbeat on redesign
(Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden, who last year compared New York’s LaGuardia Airport to “some third-world country,” on Monday was back in New York to tout a project that will rebuild it from the ground up.
Louisiana shooting suspect never involuntarily committed: Georgia authorities
(Reuters) – The man who police say killed two women at a Louisiana movie theater was able to legally buy a gun because there was never an order to have him hospitalized for psychiatric care against his will, Georgia state authorities said on Monday.
Colorado movie gunman’s sister sobs, says she still loves him
DENVER (Reuters) – The younger sister of Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes testified at his trial for the first time on Monday, telling jurors who will decide his fate that the murders were completely out of character, and she still loves him…
Texas toddler dies after father leaves her strapped in hot SUV: police
DALLAS (Reuters) – A Texas father whose 2-year-old daughter died after she was left strapped in the back of an SUV as temperatures soared to 98 degrees Fahrenheit was arrested on Monday and charged with child abandonment, police said.
Fiat Chrysler could spend billions to buy back unrepaired trucks
DETROIT (Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles could pay billions of dollars to buy back defective trucks as part of a settlement with U.S. safety regulators, but has the option to recover costs by reselling vehicles once they are repaired.
Citizens United loses New York ruling over donors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday rejected Citizens United’s effort to block New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman from demanding that the conservative group disclose more information about its major donors.
Obama meets Lucy, an ancient ‘ancestor,’ in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Barack Obama came to Africa partially to connect with the continent of his forefathers.
Protesters fail to show at Louisiana shooting victims’ funerals
(Reuters) – Members of a Kansas-based fundamentalist Christian church who threatened to stage protests at the funerals of two women fatally shot in a Louisiana movie theater failed to show up on Monday, according to local news reports and social media….
