Cleveland man charged with killing five gets $7.5 million bond
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A Cleveland man has confessed to killing five people including a woman and her unborn child at in November in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty, authorities said on Friday.
Four dead after plane crashes onto major Atlanta highway
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Four people died on Friday when the small plane they were riding in crashed on a busy Atlanta-area highway after taking off from a nearby airport, local authorities said.
AAA predicts strong start to U.S. summer driving season
NEW YORK (Reuters) – More U.S. drivers will hit the roads this Memorial Day holiday than in the past decade, fueled by a growing economy and low gasoline prices, the nation’s largest motorists’ advocacy group said in a forecast released on Friday.
Five years on, Obamacare poses quandary for U.S. Republicans: Reuters/Ipsos poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans with health insurance under Obamacare, including Republicans, are generally satisfied with it, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found, posing a quandary for Republican politicians who have long vowed to repeal it.
Tropical storm warning issued for Carolinas as Ana strengthens
MIAMI (Reuters) – A tropical storm warning has been issued for a portion of North Carolina and South Carolina, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday.
Sub-tropical storm Ana forms off southeast US coast: NHC
MIAMI (Reuters) – Sub-tropical storm Ana formed off the southeast coast of the United States with maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour (75 km/h), the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said late Thursday.
Four injured in freight train derailment in North Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Four people were injured when a BNSF freight train derailed in northern Texas on Friday, with high winds and flooding likely causing it to go off the tracks, a company spokesman said.
Day 18 of marathon deliberations in New York missing boy murder trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The murder trial of a former deli worker who confessed to strangling 6-year-old Etan Patz resumed on Friday with the 18th day of jury deliberations.
Hillary Clinton woos technorati, draws comparison to Eleanor Roosevelt
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton makes the final stop on Friday on a California fundraising tour where she has courted technology titans for her 2016 campaign and where one of her admirers tried comparing her to fellow former first lady Eleano…
Poll: Americans favor Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert over conservatives for punditry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jon Stewart has spent 16 years skewering U.S. politicians and media as the liberal host of television’s “The Daily Show” – and many Americans think he gets it right on the issues with his satirical look at the news.
