Obama to announce push for paid leave, sick time for workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will announce on Thursday a handful of initiatives to boost paid leave and sick time, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said in a statement.
Three rearrested hours after mass inmate release from Ohio jail
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Three men released from an Akron, Ohio-area jail over the weekend after budget cuts and staffing shortages closed two units were rearrested within hours for petty crimes, officials said on Wednesday.
Arizona man arrested in grisly 1990s murders of two young women
PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona man has been arrested in the mutilation murders of two young women in the early 1990s, crimes that remained unsolved for two decades after they shook the Phoenix area, police said on Wednesday.
New York City mayor says he would veto police chokehold ban
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Wednesday he would veto a bill by city lawmakers that would make it illegal for a police officer to put a person in a chokehold during an arrest.
FBI raids Florida firm with ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ link: witnesses
WASHINGTON/BOCA RATON, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. FBI agents on Wednesday raided the offices of Med-Care Diabetic & Medical Supplies Inc, a Florida medical device company whose executive vice president helped inspire the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street,” according to a Reuters reporter and other witnesses.
Two Virginia fraternities reject party rules after rape story
RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – Two University of Virginia fraternities are refusing to sign an operating agreement to help prevent sexual assaults and binge drinking that stemmed from a discredited Rolling Stone story about gang rape at another fraternity.
U.S. soldier tests negative for Ebola after death at Texas base
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – Tests confirm that a U.S. Army soldier who had just returned from West Africa and was found dead near the Texas base where he was posted was not infected with Ebola, Fort Hood officials said late Tuesday. 
Judge rejects request to delay Boston bombing trial
BOSTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected the latest plea by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to pause jury selection for his trial due to the recent attacks in Paris.
‘Virtual kidnapping’ on the rise in New York, FBI says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – In a new wrinkle to an old crime, hundreds of New Yorkers have been tricked into paying ransoms by wire transfer to callers who falsely claim to have kidnapped their family members, according to the FBI.
Ten killed, five injured after Texas prison bus hits train
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Ten people were killed and five severely injured when a Texas prison bus carrying 15 people skidded off an icy highway overpass and hit a moving freight train on Wednesday, officials said.
