Obama, Dalai Lama due to attend U.S. prayer event February 5
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are scheduled to attend the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast in Washington next week, but it was unclear if they will have a private meeting like one last year that angered Beijing.
Pennsylvania treasurer to plead guilty to U.S. federal campaign violations
(Reuters) – Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord on Friday admitted to having “stepped over the line” in seeking campaign contributions, and will plead guilty to federal campaign law violations, according to his attorneys.
Defense in Etan Patz murder trial in New York attacks confession
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Mental illness sparked a false confession by the accused killer of Etan Patz and the real suspect in the 1979 disappearance of the boy in New York City is another man – a convicted child molester – a defense attorney told the jury …
Suspected Ebola patient in California tests negative for virus
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Hours after a suspected Ebola patient in Sacramento was found to be free of the virus, a second person hospitalized in California’s capital was reported by public health officials on Friday to be undergoing evaluation and…
U.S. reporter says turns up in Venezuela ad campaign despite 2013 arrest
CARACAS (Reuters) – An American reporter briefly arrested in Venezuela in 2013 said he has unwittingly turned up in an ad promoting the South American country.
Tennessee man charged in failed Gambia coup attempt
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Prosecutors have charged a third U.S. citizen in connection with a deadly attempt to overthrow the government of the tiny African nation of Gambia in late December, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said on Friday.
U.S. plan would keep highways, federal buildings away from flood areas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Government buildings and federal highways planned in the future will be constructed safe distances away from flood areas that are expected to worsen due to climate change, the White House announced on Friday.
White House urges parents to heed advice urging childhood vaccines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With U.S. measles cases on the rise, the White House on Friday urged parents to heed the advice of public health officials and scientists in getting their children vaccinated.
U.S. judge allows British spies to testify in disguise in militant’s trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge has agreed to allow six officers of MI5, Britain’s domestic counterintelligence agency, to testify in disguise and use pseudonyms at the Brooklyn trial of an alleged al Qaeda militant.
Rap mogul Suge Knight arrested for murder in LA after hit-and-run
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was arrested on suspicion of murder on Friday after a man matching his description ran over two people with a pickup truck in a hit-and-run incident near Los Angeles, killing one and injuring the o…
