U.S. officials asking Qatar to allow couple to leave country
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…
Lawyers for Boston bomb suspect again seek trial out of state
BOSTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday requested, for the second time, that his trial be moved out of state because of the risk that intense local media coverage will bias a jury against him.
Congress deals blow to plan to shut Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers dealt a blow to President Barack Obama’s five-year-long effort to close the prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba by omitting a plan to shut the facility from an annual defense authorization bill.
Back from holidays, students walk out over Ferguson decision
(Reuters) – High school and college students, back from the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, ditched classes on Monday in several cities to protest against a decision not to indict a Missouri police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in A…
Six teens arrested in beating death of California homeless man
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Six San Diego-area teenagers, including one under 18, have been arrested and charged with murder in the beating of two homeless men that left one of the transients dead and the other injured, county sheriff’s deputies said on Mond…
Texas murder suspect plotted revenge for a year, prosecutors say
ROCKWALL, Texas (Reuters) – A former Texas justice of the peace plotted revenge for a year before gunning down two suburban Dallas district attorneys who had prosecuted him and ruined his career, prosecutors said on Monday at the start of his capital m…
Texas murder suspect plotted revenge for a year, prosecutors say
ROCKWALL, Texas (Reuters) – A former justice of the peace in Texas plotted his revenge for a year before gunning down the men who had prosecuted him for theft and ruined his career, prosecutors said Monday at the start of his capital murder trial.
Obama vows to address ‘simmering distrust’ between police, minorities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama made a forceful pledge on Monday to use his last two years in office to address the “simmering distrust” between police and minority communities as he requested $263 million for the federal response to the …
Bill Cosby quits trustee post at Temple University
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby has resigned from the board of trustees of Temple University, his alma mater said in a statement on Monday, after the entertainer was hit with a wave of sexual assault accusations.
Puerto Rico debates tax increase needed for $2.9 billion bond
SAN JUAN (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Puerto Rico resisted efforts to raise a tax on crude oil at a planned 68 percent on Monday, arguing for amendments to the bill they said would soften the blow of the tax that the U.S. commonwealth needs to raise up to …
