Harriet Tubman wins poll to replace Andrew Jackson on $20 bill
(Reuters) – Twenty-dollar bills could soon be known as “Tubmans” if a grassroots campaign succeeds in persuading President Barack Obama to remove Andrew Jackson’s portrait from circulation on U.S. paper currency in favor of a famous woman in U.S. histo…
Los Angeles job growth flat while San Francisco booms, report says
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – The number of private sector jobs in the Los Angeles area has remained relatively flat over the past quarter century, while employment in the San Francisco Bay Area has boomed, a report by a business group shows.
California man gets year in jail for beating poodle to death
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles-area man who prosecutors say beat his poodle to death last year was sentenced on Tuesday to a year in jail and ordered to attend anger management and animal cruelty classes.
Bird flu outbreak hits Nebraska poultry farm: USDA
(Reuters) – The fast-spreading avian flu virus was confirmed for the first time in Nebraska, at a commercial egg-laying farm that housed a flock of 1.7 million chickens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.
Idaho schools warned not to force girls to wear dresses to graduation
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A civil liberties group warned Idaho’s public school districts on Tuesday that a secondary school’s decision to require girls to wear white or pastel dresses or skirts to graduation could be discriminatory.
Jeb Bush backs off support of Iraq invasion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Jeb Bush said on Tuesday that “mistakes were made” in the Iraq war, moving to disavow a controversial statement he made in support of the 2003 invasion ordered by his brother, then-President George W. Bush.
Christie: Fed partly to blame for U.S. income inequality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In unusual remarks for a moderate Republican who may run for president, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said on Tuesday the Federal Reserve deserved part of the blame for a widening gulf between the rich and the poor.
University of Virginia official sues Rolling Stone over rape story
(Reuters) – A University of Virginia administrator filed a $7.85 million libel lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine, its parent company and a reporter on Tuesday over a now-debunked story of a gang rape on the U.S. campus.
Texas lawmakers try to set up legal barriers to same-sex marriage
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – With a possibility the U.S. Supreme Court next month will legalize same-sex marriage, the Republican-controlled Texas legislature is pushing measures to bolster the state’s constitutional amendment that bans gay weddings.
Obama targets hedge funds in personal remarks on poverty, race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama addressed U.S. struggles with class and race in personal terms on Tuesday and renewed his call to close tax loopholes enjoyed by wealthy hedge fund managers as a way to reduce poverty among Americans.
