Ebola crisis turns a corner as U.S. issues new treatment protocols
DALLAS (Reuters) – The United States issued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treating Ebola victims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from becoming infect…
Dish drops Turner channels as contract renewal talks fail
(Reuters) – Dish Network has stopped carrying Turner Broadcasting’s channels, including CNN, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, as the companies failed to renew their distribution deal.
Ebola among top U.S. worries but well behind economy, jobs: poll
(Reuters) – A new poll on Tuesday showed Ebola has moved into the top 10 issues of concern to Americans but ranks behind the economy, dissatisfaction with government and other worries.
U.S. national security prosecutors shift focus from spies to cyber
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is restructuring its national security prosecution team to deal with cyber attacks and the threat of sensitive technology ending up in the wrong hands, as American business and government agencies face…
Indiana police charge suspect who may have killed for decades
HAMMOND Ind. (Reuters) – A convicted sex offender suspected of murdering at least seven women and leaving the bodies in abandoned houses in northwest Indiana may be a serial killer who has killed others in the state as far back as 20 years ago, local p…
Schools closed after second sighting of Pennsylvania sniper
EAST STROUDSBURG Pa. (Reuters) – A Pennsylvania school district closed on Tuesday after another possible sighting of Eric Frein, the sniper accused of killing one state trooper and wounding another, near a post office close to the fugitive’s former hig…
Study shows U.S. forced-labor victims unclear where to seek help
(Reuters) – A study of human labor trafficking in the United States released today shows that many of the victims arrived in the country legally, and some had college degrees. Even so, the study by researchers at the non-profit Urban Institute and Bost…
Pennsylvania Supreme Court suspends one of its own in porn scandal
HARRISBURG Pa. (Reuters) – The Pennsylvania state Supreme Court late on Monday suspended one of its own, Justice Seamus P. McCaffery, in connection with an email porn scandal and other allegations of misconduct.
GAO upholds FCi protest against security contract to USIS unit
(Reuters) – The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Monday upheld portions of a protest filed by vetting firm FCi Federal Inc against a $190 million contract awarded to a unit of U.S. Investigative Services LLC (USIS) earlier this year by th…
Missouri State Senator arrested by Ferguson police
(Reuters) – A Missouri state senator was arrested on Monday night outside the police department of the embroiled city of Ferguson, authorities said, in another night of protests following the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in August…
