Ex-Guantanamo inmates end U.S. Embassy protest in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Former Guantanamo Bay prisoners resettled in Uruguay ended a three-week protest outside the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday after reaching a deal with their hosts for financial and medical support in return for learning Spanish and seeki…
Ex-Guantanamo inmates end U.S. Embassy protest in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Former Guantanamo Bay prisoners resettled in Uruguay ended a three-week protest outside the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday after reaching a deal with their hosts for financial and medical support in return for learning Spanish and seeki…
Texas police seek gang truce, end of bloodshed after deadly brawl
WACO, Texas (Reuters) – Texas police asked rival motorcycle gangs on Tuesday to put aside their differences after a weekend brawl at a Waco restaurant that left nine people dead and 18 injured, calling for a halt to the carnage and threats of revenge a…
St. Louis Federal Reserve says was victim of hacking attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said hackers successfully attacked the bank last month.
Takata doubling U.S. recall for defective air bags to 34 million vehicles
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp is doubling a recall of potentially deadly air bags to nearly 34 million vehicles, creating the largest automotive recall in American history, U.S. safety regulators said on Tuesd…
South Carolina lawmakers advance 20-week abortion ban
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – South Carolina lawmakers on Tuesday passed a key vote to approve a bill banning most abortions at 20 weeks of pregnancy, when a fetus is not considered viable outside the mother’s womb.
Los Angeles gives preliminary approval to $15 minimum wage
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to increase the minimum wage in the nation’s second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020 from the current $9, in a victory for labor and community groups that have pushed for similar …
Thousands of Seattle teachers hold one-day strike over pay, class size
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Thousands of Seattle teachers walked out of class on Tuesday to demand higher pay and smaller class sizes, marking the largest one-day strike in a series of rolling protests by educators in Washington state over public school fundin…
Florida students forced into vaginal probes by college: lawsuit
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – Two female college students said they were forced to endure almost weekly vaginal probes in front of classmates and instructors as part of a medical diagnostic sonography class at a Florida community college, according to a ci…
U.S. House defense appropriations panel also funds Boeing jets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The third of four key U.S. congressional committees on Tuesday approved funding for 12 additional Boeing Co fighter jets in fiscal 2016, increasing the prospects that the company will keep its St. Louis production line running pa…
