Exclusive: DOT looks at Delta’s actions on Atlanta-area airport
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Tuesday it is looking into a complaint that Delta Airlines Inc used “unfair and deceptive practices” to block development of a second major airport near Atlanta.
Suspect in North Carolina courthouse shooting apprehended
WINSTON-SALEM N.C. (Reuters) – A man suspected of shooting and wounding two people in front of a courthouse on Tuesday in North Carolina has been apprehended, the local police chief said.
Suspicious cyber activity at White House detected, addressed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Suspicious cyber activity has been detected on the computer network used by the White House and measures have been taken to address it, a White House official disclosed on Tuesday.
U.S. files civil charges against NY drug treatment nonprofit following arrests
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Tuesday filed civil charges against a chain of substance abuse treatment centers in New York City over an alleged Medicaid kickback scheme, a week after the New York attorney general’s office indicted the fat…
Cyber breaches put 18.5 million Californians’ data at risk in 2013: report
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Cyber intrusions and other data breaches put the personal records of 18.5 million Californians, nearly half the state’s population, at risk in 2013, a seven-fold increase over the year before, the state attorney general reported…
U.S. boosts security at government buildings citing terrorist threat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is increasing security at government buildings in Washington and other cities because of continuing terrorist threats and last week’s attack on the Canadian parliament, the Homeland Security Department said on T…
Molten lava from Hawaii volcano crosses onto residential property
KAILUA-KONA Hawaii (Reuters) – A menacing river of molten lava that bubbled over a road and overran a cemetery on its path toward a village on Hawaii’s Big Island crossed onto a residential property on Tuesday where it threatened to consume its first h…
U.S. Coast Guard searches off Miami for two missing Cuban migrants
MIAMI BEACH Fla. (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard searched on Tuesday for two missing Cuban rafters, a day after 11 others on their homemade vessel were plucked safely from the waters off Miami.
Columbia University to pay $9 million to end U.S. lawsuit over AIDS grants
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Columbia University has agreed to pay more than $9 million to resolve a lawsuit by the U.S. government accusing it of submitting false claims in connection with grants the Ivy League school obtained to fund AIDS- and HIV-related wo…
Australia bans travel from Ebola-hit countries; U.S. isolates troops
MONROVIA/FREETOWN (Reuters) – Australia became the first developed country on Tuesday to shut its borders to citizens of the countries worst-hit by the West African Ebola outbreak, a move those states said stigmatized healthy people and would make it h…
