For CIA, fallout from Senate report looks far from over
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As outcry grows over its now-defunct brutal interrogation program, America’s spy agency appears caught in the crossfire of debate over its methods in the ongoing U.S. battle against Islamic militants and whether it has changed it…
Washington starts fiscal 2015 with rising tax collections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Total tax collections for Washington were 39.8 percent higher in October than the same month last year, according to a report released by the office of the District of Columbia’s chief financial officer on Wednesday.
Demonstrations aside, it’s not 1960s Berkeley any more
BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters) – Gray-haired activists still hand out leaflets on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, but the California university town that has seen violent protests over police killings of unarmed black men is a far cry from the leftist hotbed…
Psychologist says Senate report on CIA interrogation makes false charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA’s harsh Bush-era interrogation program for foreign terrorism suspects said on Wednesday that a scathing Senate report on their methods “took things out of context” and made a numbe…
U.S. closes Bagram prison, says it has no more detainees in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – The United States closed the Bagram detention facility on Dec. 10 and no longer has custody of any detainees in Afghanistan, the U.S. Defense Department said, closing a controversial chapter of Washington’s long “war on terror”.
Police body cameras carry risks without firm rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Civil rights activists and some police chiefs are warning that the Obama administration’s proposal to help local police departments buy 50,000 body cameras must come with firm rules on how to use the equipment.
Arrest made in San Diego rape, one of a string near college campus
(Reuters) – A San Diego State University student has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault near campus, marking the first arrest in a string of seemingly unrelated reported rapes that have triggered protests over the school’s handling of se…
New York real estate scion on trial for trespassing
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Real estate heir Robert Durst appeared in a New York courtroom on Wednesday on charges of trespassing on property owned by his estranged family.
Revel deal with Brookfield off; new buyer in sight
(Reuters) – The new proposed buyer for the shuttered Revel Casino Hotel said Wednesday that he will not give up his legal challenge to the auction of the Atlantic City, New Jersey, complex even though the winning bidder walked away from the deal.
Body of U.S. hostage killed in rescue attempt in Yemen arrives in U.S.
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – The body of Luke Somers, an American held by an al Qaeda unit in Yemen who was killed on Saturday when U.S. special forces tried to rescue him, was flown to the United States on Wednesday, a U.S. defense offi…
