Obama and daughters hit bookstore for Small Business Saturday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and his teenaged daughters, Sasha and Malia, went to an independent book store in Washington to buy books as a way to promote Small Business Saturday, an event aimed at boosting small businesses.
Three people shot to death in Atlanta, two injured
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Three people were shot to death and two injured early Saturday morning at an Atlanta house, police said.Three men died of multiple gunshot wounds, Atlanta police spokesman Greg Lyon told Reuters. Two other people were injured and ar…
New York man collecting food for needy killed as thief steals his car
(Reuters) – A Long Island, New York, man collecting food for a soup kitchen was killed when a car thief stole his car from outside a convenience store and ran him over, police said on Saturday.
Exclusive: U.S. CEOs threaten to pull tacit Obamacare support over ‘wellness’ spat
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Leading U.S. CEOs, angered by the Obama administration’s challenge to certain “workplace wellness” programs, are threatening to side with anti-Obamacare forces unless the government backs off, according to people familiar with the …
Man shoots girlfriend, kills self in Chicago Nordstrom store
(Reuters) – A man shot his girlfriend before fatally shooting himself inside a Chicago Nordstrom on Friday, police said, sending black Friday shoppers scattering from the store.
Washington state woman shoots man trying to enter home: TV station
(Reuters) – A woman shot a 22-year-old man trying to barge into her home early on Thanksgiving morning in a Seattle suburb, and he may have been drinking and gone to the home by mistake, a television station reported.
U.S. Black Friday shopping marked by thinner crowds, protests
WEST HARTFORD, Conn./CHICAGO (Reuters) – Mall crowds were relatively thin on Black Friday in a sign of what has become the new normal in U.S. holiday shopping: the mad rush is happening the night of Thanksgiving and more consumers are picking up deals …
Arizona man hospitalized over Ebola concerns tests negative
(Reuters) – A Phoenix man who became ill after returning this week from Sierra Leone, one of the three West African nations hardest hit by an Ebola outbreak, on Friday was taken to a hospital where he tested negative for the virus, officials said.
Lawsuit accuses Wells Fargo of biased lending in Chicago area
(Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co was sued on Friday by Cook County, Illinois, which accused the largest U.S. mortgage lender of targeting black, Hispanic and female borrowers with predatory and discriminatory lending in the Chicago area.
St. Louis-area mall closes on Black Friday as Ferguson protests spread
FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – Demonstrators shut down a shopping mall near Ferguson, Missouri, at the start of the holiday shopping season on Friday as protests over the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer turned against some retaile…
