U.S. authorities need to build trust on race issues: U.N. rights chief
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. authorities need to tackle a “deep and festering” mistrust in some sectors of the population and examine how race relations affect law enforcement, the U.N.’s human rights chief said on Tuesday.
Double arm transplant recipient thanks doctors in Boston
BOSTON (Reuters) – A 40-year-old quadruple amputee on Tuesday thanked the Boston surgeons who performed a rare dual arm transplant on him last month and described the experience of getting the new limbs as surreal.
Exclusive: U.S. to leave more troops in Afghanistan than first planned – sources
KABUL (Reuters) – The United States is preparing to increase the number of troops it keeps in Afghanistan in 2015 to fill a gap left in the NATO mission by other contributing nations, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the situation.
Celebrated California farm sows seeds for next generation
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (Reuters) – Growing up among rows of purple haze carrots, delicate Mara des Bois strawberries and corn sweet enough to eat raw, Makoto Chino might have been one of the best-fed kids in America.
For world’s police, force of the law meets the law of force
(Reuters) – U.S. police are under pressure not only for the killing of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, for which a grand jury decided on Monday not to indict the police officer, but also for the military-style response to the sometimes viole…
Hagel, under pressure, resigns as U.S. defense secretary
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigned on Monday, leaving under pressure as President Barack Obama faces critical national security challenges, including fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and revising plans to exit Af…
At least 12 buildings go up in flames in violence-torn Ferguson area
FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – At least a dozen buildings were set on fire in Ferguson, Missouri, most of them destroyed, in a wave of civil unrest following a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black …
Gunshots echo as violence returns to Ferguson, protests across U.S.
FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) – Gunshots pierced the air as an angry crowd threw bottles outside the Ferguson Police Department in suburban St. Louis after a grand jury on Monday decided not to indict a white officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black…
Obama on Ferguson: U.S. ‘has more work to do’ on race relations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama issued an appeal on Monday for restraint by protesters and police after a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of a black teen last August.
U.S. introduces menu calorie labeling to fight obesity
(Reuters) – The U.S. government will publish sweeping new rules on Tuesday requiring chain restaurants and large vending machine operators to disclose calorie counts on menus to make people more aware of the risks of obesity posed by fatty, sugary food…
