Fewer than 100 Americans probed for fighting in Syria, Iraq: U.S. Attorney General
OSLO (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has opened fewer than a hundred investigations into American citizens who may have traveled to Syria or Iraq to fight, the U.S. Attorney General said on Tuesday.
Two in five U.S. homes have only cellphones: survey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of U.S. homes with only cellphones is growing, with 41 percent of them without landlines in the second half of 2013, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
Drone in close call with New York police helicopter, two arrested
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two men accused of flying a drone so close to a New York police helicopter that it was forced off course to avoid crashing have been charged with reckless endangerment, police said on Tuesday.
Drone in close call with New York police helicopter, two arrested
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two men accused of flying a drone so close to a New York police helicopter that it was forced off course to avoid crashing have been charged with reckless endangerment, police said on Tuesday.
Two dozen rescued after being stranded on California roller coaster
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two dozen people, four of them slightly injured, were left stranded high off the ground after a roller coaster ride struck a tree branch at a Six Flags amusement park in southern California on Monday evening, fire officials said…
California cop spared charges in mistaken killing of boy with toy gun
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Northern California prosecutors have decided against bringing criminal charges against a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a plastic replica of an assault rifle that the officer mistook for …
Bahrain orders out visiting U.S. official: state news agency
MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahrain on Monday ordered a visiting senior U.S. official to leave the kingdom immediately because he had “intervened flagrantly” in the country’s internal affairs, the state news agency BNA said.
White House says most children at border to be sent home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday that most unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States from Central America will not be allowed to stay as the Obama administration prepares to ask Congress for $2 billion to address the bor…
Venezuelan man charged in Miami with fish and coral smuggling
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Venezuelan man charged with smuggling more than 100 specimens of fish and live coral out of the United States in his luggage faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after he was arrested trying to board a plane from Miami to …
Florida teenager at center of escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict
TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) – Family and friends of a Florida teenager who says he was beaten by Israeli police while in detention describe him as a typical U.S. high school student.
