FBI workers with foreign ties face unfair security checks: NY Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of employees with foreign ties working for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation are subjected to what they say are unfair aggressive background checks that have forced some to cut contact with family members abroad, …
Edward Brooke, first black U.S. senator elected by popular vote, dies
(Reuters) – Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, died on Saturday at the age of 95, the state Republican Party said.
NYC mayor, commissioner saluted when entering slain officer’s wake
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City police officers saluted as Mayor Bill de Blasio and his police commissioner entered a Brooklyn funeral home on Saturday for the wake of a policeman killed in an ambush last month that deepened a rift between the mayor…
Idaho earthquake causes rock slides, damages property
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A moderate earthquake rattled a broad swath of Idaho early on Saturday, damaging property and triggering rock slides near its epicenter in Challis, a city that has endured hundreds of slight to moderate temblors over the last …
Seven-year-old girl survives Kentucky plane crash: police
(Reuters) – A seven-year-old girl survived when a small plane in which she was flying with her family crashed in the Kentucky woods, killing her parents, an older sister and a teenage cousin, police said on Saturday.
U.S. appeals court denies request to delay Boston Marathon bombing trial
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Saturday denied a last-ditch request by lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to delay his trial on charges of killing three people and injuring more than 260 in the attack.
Suspect in U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya, Tanzania, dies before NY trial
(Reuters) – A suspected al Qaeda figure alleged to have helped plan the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya has died in New York just days ahead of his scheduled trial, his son and the prosecutor said on Saturday.
Fear and joy as Alabama town readies for screenings of film ‘Selma’
(Reuters) – Residents of Selma, Alabama, will next week be offered free screenings of “Selma,” a Golden Globe-nominated film some locals welcome as the telling of an important civil rights-era story while others fear it could harm the downtrodden city’…
Two fetuses found on side of southern California street
(Reuters) – Two fetuses were found on Friday wrapped in a blanket that had been ditched on the side of a residential southern California street, authorities said.
Massachusetts mother sentenced for slitting kid’s throats, burning home
(Reuters) – A mother who turned up at a Massachusetts police station covered in blood and lighter fluid in 2012 was sentenced to up to 25 years in prison on Friday for slitting her two children’s throats and setting their home ablaze, authorities said….
