Judge mulls timetable for redrawing Florida redistricting maps
TALLAHASSEE Fla (Reuters) – Lawyers for the Florida legislature’s Republican leaders and county elections officers argued on Thursday that a judge who threw out their 2012 congressional redistricting plan could not require that boundaries be redrawn in…
Young adults drive record U.S. trend of multi-generational homes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A record 57 million Americans, or 18.1 percent of the U.S. population, lived in households with two or more generations in 2012, with young adults leading the trend, a report said on Thursday.
White House sees labor force dropouts getting back into the game
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Thursday it expects America’s strengthening economy will temporarily halt the troubling decline in the share of workers who have jobs or are looking for one.
Magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits near Gulf of Alaska in Canada: USGS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck western Canada near the Gulf of Alaska early on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
U.S. libraries become front line in fight against homelessness
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – George Brown, a homeless man in Washington, has a simple answer when asked how often he uses a public library.
Wildfire prompts evacuation of nearly 900 Washington state homes
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Wildfires stoked by high winds and dry, hot weather threatened homes and businesses across parts of Washington state on Wednesday, with nearly 900 dwellings evacuated near the Bavarian-style village of Leavenworth in the Cascade mou…
Top GM lawyer, Delphi CEO to face Senate on deadly ignition flaw
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two more major figures in General Motors Co’s safety debacle will appear on Thursday for the first time before U.S. lawmakers investigating why it took the automaker more than 10 years to recall millions of vehicles with a deadly…
Plane’s near-miss in Alaska becomes a whale of a tale online
JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) – A dramatic video of a sea plane just missing a surfacing humpback whale as it came in to land in Alaska has become a hit online, and the man who shot it says it was blind luck.
Florida teen detained in Israeli-Palestinian conflict returns home
TAMPA Fla (Reuters) – A Florida teenager who was detained in Israel and apparently beaten by police returned home on Wednesday, eager to seek medical care and put behind him a summer trip that drew renewed world attention to the Israeli-Palestinian con…
Suspect, hostage die in police shootout with California bank robbers
(Reuters) – A suspected bank robber and a female hostage died on Wednesday in a shootout with California police after a car chase sparked by a bank robbery in which thieves seized three women as hostages, firing assault rifles as they fled.
