Second U.S. university cuts ties with China’s Confucius Institute
(Reuters) – A second major U.S. university in a week is severing ties with China’s government-funded Confucius Institute, which critics call a propaganda arm wrapped in culture and language education.
New York transit authority sued for denying anti-Islamic bus ad
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An anti-Islam group filed a civil rights lawsuit against New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Wednesday for refusing to run a so-called “Hamas Killing Jews” advertisement on city busses, the group’s attorn…
Participants in Detroit pension borrowing knew debt sale was ‘iffy’: city lawyer
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit’s controversial sale of $1.4 billion of pension debt, which has become one of the biggest disputes in the city’s historic bankruptcy case, involved risks known to all the parties in the transaction, an attorney for the city …
Florida policeman suspended after tasering woman, 61, in the back
TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) – The Tallahassee Police Department suspended an officer on Wednesday pending an investigation of his use of a taser on a 61-year-old woman who was walking away from him during a confrontation caught on video in a black neigh…
Sagebrush recreation sites across U.S. West generate millions
CARSON CITY Nev. (Reuters) – Miles of sagebrush may be tedious to interstate travelers across the U.S. West, but the ecosystems supporting the scrubby plants are an economic generator, pumping millions into the local and national economies, according t…
Brookfield wins Revel Casino auction, but loser vows to fight
(Reuters) – An affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management won the auction for Atlantic City, New Jersey’s bankrupt Revel Casino Hotel with a $110 million bid, but within hours the losing bidder told Reuters he planned to fight the sale.
Hundreds of chickens killed by intruders at California farm: police
(Reuters) – Intruders beat to death more than 900 chickens, some of them with a golf club, during a break-in at a commercial poultry farm in central California, authorities said.
Bomb scare empties Sandy Hook school in Connecticut
(Reuters) – A bomb scare on Wednesday emptied Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, the replacement for the school where 26 people were massacred in 2012, the school district said.
New Oklahoma procedures increase sedative fivefold in executions
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma set up new procedures on executions that include increasing by five times the dosage of a controversial sedative that was among the drugs used in a botched execution in April, which prompted the state to suspend letha…
Brookfield wins auction for bankrupt Revel Casino: sources
(Reuters) – Brookfield Asset Management BAMa.TO BAM.N won the auction for Atlantic City’s bankrupt Revel Casino Hotel with a $110 million bid, said two sources familiar with the situation.
