Tea Party out-muscles Boehner on border-security funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to fund border security blew up in House Speaker John Boehner’s face on Thursday, leaving Republicans in disarray and struggling to reconcile Tea Party demands with the need to deal with a humanitarian crisis on the southw…
Sudanese woman who had faced execution for conversion arrives in U.S.
MANCHESTER N.H. (Reuters) – A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, then detained after her conviction was quashed, arrived in the United States on Thursday.
U.S. reforms poultry inspections to boost food safety
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday reforms to decades-old processes for inspecting poultry facilities in a bid to cut down on the number of foodborne illnesses, but dropped an industry-backed plan to speed u…
Tea Party out-muscles Boehner on border-security funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to fund border security blew up in House Speaker John Boehner’s face on Thursday, leaving Republicans in disarray and struggling to reconcile Tea Party demands with the need to deal with a humanitarian crisis on the southw…
CIA concedes it spied on U.S. Senate investigators, apologizes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CIA conceded on Thursday that it had improperly monitored computers used by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee in an investigation of interrogation tactics and secret prisons for terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 200…
Sudanese woman who had faced execution for conversion arrives in U.S.
MANCHESTER N.H. (Reuters) – A Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity, then detained after her conviction was quashed, arrived in the United States on Thursday.
Activists say transgender woman raped at Arizona immigrant center
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Rights activists called on Thursday for the immediate release of a transgender women allegedly raped by her cellmate at an Arizona immigrant detention center, accusing authorities of refusing to provide for her safety.
World Trade Center contractor charged in multimillion-dollar fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The owner of a company that has done nearly $1 billion in construction work at the World Trade Center was charged on Thursday with defrauding a government program intended to promote minority- and women-owned businesses.
U.S. CDC says salmonella outbreak from Foster Farms’ chicken appears over
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A salmonella outbreak linked to California-based poultry producer Foster Farms’ contaminated chicken appears to be over, more than 17 months after it began, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
Crews tighten battle lines around Yosemite fire threatening Sequoias
(Reuters) – Firefighters tightened their grip Thursday on a blaze roaring for a sixth day through drought-parched timber and brush on the western edge of Yosemite National Park as they took special measures to protect a famed grove of giant Sequoia tre…
