Defense seeks to have charges tossed against Guantanamo prisoner
FORT MEADE, Md. (Reuters) – A defense attorney on Monday sought the dismissal of charges against a suspected Iraqi al Qaeda commander, saying the United States was violating international law and the Constitution by prosecuting him for war crimes.
Man fatally shoots self outside News Corp building in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man shot and killed himself in an apparent suicide on Monday outside the News Corp office building in midtown Manhattan, police said.
U.S. top court rules for employer in retiree benefits fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a company that amended a collective bargaining agreement to force retirees to pay toward healthcare costs, throwing out a lower-court ruling that favored the former employees who object…
Georgia police arrest suspect after car-buying couple disappear
ATLANTA (Reuters) – A suspect sought in the disappearance of a suburban Atlanta couple missing since they traveled to the southern part of Georgia last week to buy a vintage car off Craigslist turned himself in on Monday, a local sheriff said.
American Airlines Group canceling flights from major northeast hubs
(Reuters) – American Airlines Group has canceled all late afternoon and evening flights scheduled for Monday from the New York area, Philadelphia and Boston as a major winter storm bears down on the northeast, spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said.
Two high-profile Massachusetts trials delayed by forecast storm
BOSTON (Reuters) – Two high-profile criminal trials in Massachusetts, that of the accused Boston Marathon bomber and a former New England Patriots player charged with murdering an associate, will be delayed by an impending winter storm, judges said on …
Exclusive: USDA Secretary orders update of agency’s animal welfare research strategy
CHICAGO (Reuters) – (This Jan 23 story corrects name of service throughout to Agricultural Research Service)
California turkey farm quarantined after bird flu detected
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A California turkey farm has been quarantined after confirmation of the first case of an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza strain in the Pacific Northwest and in a commercial flock, the U.S. government said.
United Airlines cancels all Tuesday flights from major Northeast hubs
(Reuters) – United Airlines said on Monday it will cancel all of its Tuesday flights from the New York area, Boston and Philadelphia as a potentially historic blizzard rips through the Northeast.
Two dead in apparent murder-suicide at NYC Home Depot: NYPD
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two people were killed after a shooting in a Home Depot store in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on Sunday afternoon in what appears to be a murder-suicide, two New York Police Department (NYPD) spokesmen said.
