New York mayor calls for pause in protests after police killings
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio implored protesters on Monday to wait until after the funerals of two policemen shot dead in an ambush before resuming rallies that have roiled the city and beyond over the deaths of black men at the h…
Florida police hunt for shooters who injured nine on basketball court
MIAMI (Reuters) – Florida police were searching on Tuesday for two people involved in a drive-by shooting on a basketball court that injured nine youths, including a 16-year-old boy with a critical head wound.
Pennsylvania police find head on rural road, seeking body to match
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – An aerial search for the embalmed body of a woman whose head was recovered this month along a lonely rural road was due to begin on Tuesday, police in western Pennsylvania said.
Woman who drove kids into ocean committed to Florida mental hospital
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – A South Carolina mother who drove her children into the Atlantic Ocean during what doctors determined was a psychotic break was committed on Tuesday to a Florida state mental hospital, authorities said.
Cuban dissidents shaken by U.S. rapprochement, seek new tactics
HAVANA (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s decision to end five decades of enmity with Cuba has shaken the island’s political dissidents, dividing their ranks and forcing them to rethink tactics.
U.S. says 6.4 million signed up for 2015 HealthCare.gov plans
(Reuters) – About 6.4 million Americans have selected a new individual healthcare plan or have been automatically signed up again for a 2015 insurance plan through the HealthCare.gov website, a top U.S. health official said on Tuesday, putting the agen…
Police in Massachusetts seek charges over copycat cop killer Facebook post
BOSTON (Reuters) – Police in Massachusetts are pursuing criminal charges against a man for posting the words “put wings on pigs” on his Facebook page, a phrase similar to the one posted by a man who killed two officers in New York City last weekend.
FBI warns of Islamic State threat to Mississippi River bridge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has warned local authorities of a threat that Islamic State militants would blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge spanning the Mississippi River, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.
Long-stalled Seattle tunnel project delayed nine months to 2017
SEATTLE (Reuters) – An expressway tunnel central to Seattle’s $3.1 billion roadway overhaul will not open to traffic until August 2017, extending by some nine months a delay-plagued project to replace a waterfront highway, Washington state officials sa…
U.S. State Department’s Guantanamo envoy resigns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department envoy responsible for negotiating prisoner transfers from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is resigning, officials said on Monday, even as President Barack Obama is promising a stepped-up pus…
