Obama denounces ‘outrageous murders’ of three U.S. Muslims
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday described the deaths of three young Muslims gunned down in North Carolina this week as “brutal and outrageous murders” and said no one in the United States should be targeted for the…
Ex-U.S. soldier ‘Rambo’ pleads guilty in murder-for-hire case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former U.S. soldier accused of recruiting an international team of military-trained snipers to carry out contract killings for a drug cartel pleaded guilty in New York federal court on Friday.
Gay couple sues to force Indiana to name both on son’s birth record
(Reuters) – A married same-sex couple on Friday asked a federal court to force Indiana state and county officials to name both of the women as parents on their newborn son’s birth certificate.
Majority of Alabama counties issuing marriage licenses to gay couples
(Reuters) – Officials in 24 Alabama counties began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday, gay rights advocates said, a day after a U.S. judge ordered one local official to issue licenses to gay couples in accordance with an earlier ru…
Ohio man arrested in shooting deaths of three at barbershop
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio man was arrested on Friday for shooting and killing three other men at a suburban Cleveland barbershop last week, officials said.
Ginsburg explains nap during Obama speech: ‘I wasn’t 100 percent sober’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says there was a good reason she nodded off while attending President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last month: “I wasn’t 100 percent sober.”
Union says no new strike notices issued to U.S. refineries
(Reuters) – The United Steelworkers union (USW) said no new strike notices were issued on Friday as the largest U.S. refinery strike since 1980 reached its 13th day.
Stan Chambers, Los Angeles TV journalism institution, dies at 91
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Stan Chambers, who joined KTLA-TV news in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, at the dawn of the television age, and spent six decades as a local TV journalism institution, died on Friday at the age of 91, the station said.
Maine Governor LePage asks top U.S. court to weigh in on Medicaid fight
AUGUSTA, Maine (Reuters) – Maine Governor Paul LePage has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a dispute with the federal government over the state’s effort to trim some young people from its Medicaid rolls.
Two women survive after car falls off snowy New Jersey bridge
(Reuters) – Two women survived with only minor injuries after the car they were traveling in careened up a snowbank on the side of a New Jersey bridge on Friday, plunged 60 feet and landed upright near the bank of a river, according to police and local…
