U.N. experts urge Texas to halt execution of mentally ill inmate
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights investigators called on the state of Texas and U.S. federal authorities to halt the execution of a man with a history of mental illness, scheduled for Wednesday.
U.S. Homeland Security chief defends Obama’s immigration plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday defended the Obama administration’s decision to allow millions of undocumented immigrants relief from deportation even as Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives sa…
Congressional aide resigns after slamming Obama daughters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An aide to a Republican congressman has resigned after her online criticism of President Barack Obama’s teenage daughters drew a critical spotlight to herself.
House Speaker Boehner seeks to fund U.S. government through September 30: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will seek to fund most of the U.S. government through Sept. 30, 2015, a senior Republican aide said on Tuesday.
Obama expected to nominate Ashton Carter to lead Pentagon: CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to nominate former Pentagon official Ashton Carter as U.S. defense secretary, CNN reported on Tuesday.
Corinne Pulliam Quayle, mother of former VP Dan Quayle, dies
(Reuters) – Corinne Pulliam Quayle, mother of former Vice President Dan Quayle, died in her Wickenburg, Arizona home last week at age 92.
Kenyan court sentences U.S. man to 50 years for child pornography
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan court on Tuesday sentenced a 59-year-old U.S. man to 50 years in jail for circulating pornographic images of children on the Internet.
U.S. hospitals make fewer serious errors; 50,000 lives saved
NEW YORK (Reuters) – About 50,000 people are alive today because U.S. hospitals committed 17 percent fewer medical errors in 2013 than in 2010, government health officials said on Tuesday.
U.S. lobbies Qatar over couple in child death case
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. officials have been in contact with Qatar’s government to ask them to allow a Los Angeles couple to return home after an appeals court threw out convictions linked to the death of their African-born adopted daughter, a Stat…
Obama to urge Congress to loosen purse strings for Ebola fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday will press Congress to approve $6.18 billion in emergency funding to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and prepare U.S. hospitals to handle future cases.
