U.S. police organizations criticize response to alleged brutality
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. police are being unfairly targeted in response to allegations of police brutality, leaders from three police organizations said at the first public meeting of U.S. President Barack Obama’s policing task force on Tuesday.
North Dakota, Arkansas ask court to allow abortion curbs
ST LOUIS (Reuters) – Attorneys for North Dakota and Arkansas urged a U.S. appeals court panel on Tuesday to overturn federal judge decisions that block state laws that would shorten the period allowed for a woman to end a pregnancy.
2014 attacks on Jews in U.S. Midwest detailed in report
(Reuters) – A shooting spree by a white supremacist at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City was one of a series of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. Midwest last year, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Third Detroit man to stand trial for shooting death of French street artist
DETROIT (Reuters) – A judge ruled on Tuesday that a third Detroit man accused in the killing of a 23-year-old French street artist will stand trial for his 2013 shooting death, prosecutors said.
Yosemite climbers expect to reach top of El Capitan on Wednesday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two climbers trying to become the first to scale a 3,000-foot (900-meter) face of the El Capitan rock formation in Yosemite National Park in California without bolts or climbing tools believe they will reach the top on Wednesday…
Georgia set to carry out first execution in U.S. in 2015
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A decorated Vietnam War veteran convicted of murdering a Georgia sheriff’s deputy in 1998 will be the first death row inmate executed in the United States this year if his sentence is carried out as planned on Tuesday night.
Probe into deadly Washington subway smoke may take a year: NTSB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The investigation into smoke in a Washington subway tunnel that killed a woman and sent 84 people to hospitals could take six to 12 months, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.
Texas plant where workers died had been cited for infractions: newspaper
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A DuPont and Co pesticide plant where four people died in a gas leak in November had been cited for emissions violations by a state agency on several occasions before the accident, the Houston Chronicle reported on Tuesday.
U.S. appeals court hears case on NYC police surveillance of Muslims
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Civil rights groups asked a panel of federal judges on Tuesday to overturn a lower court’s ruling that there was nothing harmful in New York City police conducting surveillance on Muslims in neighboring New Jersey without suspi…
Facebook to issue missing children alerts in U.S.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Social networking website Facebook plans to use its estimated 140 million daily U.S. users to help track missing children through emergency alerts, the company said on Tuesday.
