New Jersey unemployment rate drops but private jobs still lag
(Reuters) – New Jersey’s unemployment rate dipped slightly to 6.8 percent in May, the lowest rate since November 2008, but the state had 2,900 fewer private sector jobs than it did last May, according to official preliminary data released on Thursday.
Chinese mogul invites 1,000 poor Americans to a Central Park lunch
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Chinese recycling tycoon who has been angling to buy the New York Times Co aims to feed 1,000 poor Americans at a charitable lunch in New York City’s Central Park next week, where he plans to sing and give each attendee $300.
Last of fugitive fez-wearing Detroit drug dealers captured
(Reuters) – Federal agents have nabbed the last of three fez-wearing Detroit-area drug dealers who escaped last month before a jury returned guilty verdicts against them, officials said on Thursday.
Obamacare insurance holders rate themselves sicker: survey
(Reuters) – Individuals who purchased health insurance set up under U.S. President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law rate their personal health as worse than people who bought individual plans elsewhere, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found.
Missing Florida teen stabbed, found with sex offender in Louisiana
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – A Florida teenager missing for a week was in critical condition with multiple stab wounds at a Louisiana hospital early on Thursday, after being found with a registered sex offender who led police on a 40-mile chase, law enforcem…
Three suspects plead guilty in Detroit to mob beating of motorist
(Reuters) – Three men charged in the severe beating by a mob of a motorist who accidentally struck a child in Detroit pleaded guilty to assault charges on Thursday, the last of five defendants to admit taking part in the April attack.
U.S. Supreme Court gives taxpayers more power to fight IRS summons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that taxpayers have a right to challenge an Internal Revenue Service summons enforcement action in court when they can show the tax agency might have issued the summons in bad …
Two men arrested in Texas on terrorism charges
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Two men in central Texas have been arrested on charges of trying “to provide material support to terrorists,” with one of the pair seeking to aid extremist groups fighting in Syria, U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Donald Sterling’s wife to seek court protections for witnesses -source
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s wife on Thursday will ask a Los Angeles judge to order her husband’s attorneys not to harass her legal team and witnesses, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch urges U.S. immigration reform
(Reuters) – Media mogul Rupert Murdoch urged U.S. lawmakers to tackle far-reaching immigration reform, saying that scrapping quotas on special visas and promoting paths to citizenship would boost U.S. growth and innovation.
