California high court softens ‘three strikes’ law
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – (This July 11, 2014, story was corrected in paragraph 6 to show courts, not the state, could reconsider cases )
Dozens of trains haul volatile Bakken oil to NY weekly: railroads
(Reuters) – As many as 44 trains loaded with volatile Bakken crude oil are being sent through the state of New York each week, according to confidential disclosures made by railroads to state emergency responders, and released to Reuters through a Free…
U.S. says deportation of Honduran children a warning to illegal migrants
WASHINGTON/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The White House said on Tuesday that Central Americans trying to cross the U.S. border should know “they will not be welcome to this country,” a day after the United States deported a planeload of women and children t…
Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action plan
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court upheld the use of race by University of Texas at Austin in undergraduate admissions, a victory for affirmative action proponents, one year after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered closer scrutiny of the school’s practice…
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.
