Immigration activist Vargas detained and released in Texas
AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, an undocumented immigrant and prominent activist, was detained for several hours on Tuesday after being stopped at a security checkpoint at an airport in the border city of…
U.S. judge stays Missouri execution of convicted killer
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday stayed the impending execution of a 54-year-old man convicted of three drug-related murders after the inmate’s lawyers lodged a series of appeals, including arguments he is mentally incompetent and inn…
Maryland insurance executive plotted to kill judge: court documents
ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) – A Maryland executive charged with lying to insurance regulators was allegedly plotting to kill a judge handling his case, according to federal court documents.
Arizona town protests arrival of undocumented migrant kids
ORACLE Ariz. (Reuters) – Waving U.S. flags and playing patriotic music, dozens of people protested in southern Arizona on Tuesday against the arrival of undocumented immigrant children for processing at a center near the border before being sent home.
U.S. House passes $10.9 billion transportation funding extension
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a $10.9 billion extension of U.S. transportation funding through May 2015, a measure aimed at averting cutbacks in August in federal money for road, bridge and tr…
Pennsylvania boys choir head pleads guilty to child sex assault
(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania boys choir director has pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child and possessing child pornography and faces more than a decade in prison, authorities said on Tuesday.
U.S. woman rescued at sea with family sues satellite phone company
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A U.S. woman rescued with her family from a Pacific Ocean sailboat after her infant daughter became ill has filed suit against her satellite phone company for cutting off service, a move she said led the family to seek an emergenc…
U.S. urges stiff sentences for Britons who recruited for al Qaeda
NEW HAVEN Conn. (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors urged a judge on Tuesday to impose the maximum sentences for two British men who pleaded guilty in December to running a website and distributing publications that promoted violence and raised money for al Q…
U.S. officials purge biosafety board in midst of anthrax crisis
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal officials, amid the worst U.S. biosafety crisis in years, have dismissed 11 eminent scientists from a 23-member panel that advises the government on how and whether research on dangerous pathogens should be condu…
New York’s MTA to publish LIRR offer in newspaper, radio ads Wednesday
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s transit agency will publicize the details of its contract offer to Long Island Rail Road workers in newspaper and radio advertisements on Wednesday, the agency said, in an effort to pressure unions to call off a looming …
