Mike Huckabee looks to social conservatives to power 2016 bid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist pastor and unabashed culture warrior, enters the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday facing competition for the support of social conservatives who backed him…
Oregon lawmakers pass expanded gun background check bill
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – Oregon lawmakers on Monday passed a bill that will require background checks on nearly all gun buyers in the state, which is headed to the desk of a governor who told a local newspaper she would sign the new restrictions into…
Shift in U.S. federal solar funding needed for large-scale deployment: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States must redirect spending from wasteful solar power tax credits and prepare the electricity grid for large-scale solar energy use if the industry is to play a significant role in lowering carbon emissions, a report…
New York chef Anthony, Blue Hill restaurant win James Beard awards
(Reuters) – Michael Anthony of the venerable Gramercy Tavern in New York City was recognized as the best U.S. chef by the James Beard Foundation on Monday, while Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a pioneer of the “farm-to-table” movement just north of the Big …
Gunman in Mohammad cartoon attack in Texas monitored for years
GARLAND, Texas/PHOENIX (Reuters) – Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.
Obama says inequality facing minority men behind unrest in Baltimore, Ferguson
(Reuters) – Following a week of racially charged protests in Baltimore, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said obstacles facing minority men from birth put them in a position of having “the odds stacked against them.”
NYPD officer shot in head dies, commissioner cites historic anti-police sentiment
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York City plainclothes police officer who was shot in the head died on Monday, the fifth officer gunned down in as many months amid anti-law enforcement sentiment not seen since the turbulent 1960s, Police Commissioner Bill B…
No bomb found at Georgia’s Clayton State University after threat
(Reuters) – Clayton State University was reopened Monday evening, hours after a bomb threat triggered an evacuation of the Atlanta-area school’s main campus.
No bomb found at Georgia’s Clayton State University after threat
(Reuters) – Clayton State University was reopened Monday evening, hours after a bomb threat triggered an evacuation of the Atlanta-area school’s main campus.
Five U.S. aircraft landed at wrong airports since 2012: NTSB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five U.S. aircraft, including a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and an Atlas Air Boeing 747 cargo plane, landed at the wrong airports in recent years due to preventable air traffic control errors, U.S. safety experts said on Monday…
