Despite tough patch, U.S. intelligence chief says he is staying
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – Despite enduring “a perfect storm” of troubles for U.S. spy agencies over the last 18 months, the director of national intelligence announced on Tuesday that he plans to stay on the job through the end of President Barack Oba…
Bankrupt Detroit reaches first deal with retirees group
(Reuters) – Detroit reached its first deal with a retired workers group on Tuesday over pension and healthcare benefits and was close to a deal with at least one of its pension funds, giving a major boost to the city’s plan to exit bankruptcy in Octobe…
Missouri man charged with sexually torturing five women
(Reuters) – A Missouri man has been charged with raping and torturing five women in a St. Louis-area apartment over several years, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
Man in videotaped protest inside Supreme Court pleads guilty
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A protester who disrupted a Supreme Court proceeding in February, and whose shouts at the justices were secretly recorded on a video that was later posted online, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a misdemeanor offense.
Obama commutes sentence of man mistakenly given extra jail time
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of a Texas man who was mistakenly sentenced to an extra three and a half years in jail due to a typographical error.
White supremacist charged with murder in Kansas shootings
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (Reuters) – The suspect in the killing of three people at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City over the weekend could face the death penalty on state murder charges filed Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Suspects denied bail in kidnapping of N.C. prosecutor’s father
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Five people charged with kidnapping a North Carolina prosecutor’s father in an elaborate plot orchestrated by an imprisoned gang member were ordered held without bail at a detention hearing on Tuesday, U.S. officials said.
Judge delays Guantanamo hearing over defense FBI concerns
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) – A military hearing for five men accused of conspiring in the September 11, 2001, attacks was derailed on Tuesday over concerns that defense attorneys were being spied upon by the FBI.
U.S. appeals court upholds hazardous air pollution rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a victory for the Obama administration, a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a regulation that would limit emissions of mercury and other hazardous pollutants mainly from coal-fired power plants, starting next year.
Texas town eyes new fertilizer plant a year after deadly blast
WEST, Texas (Reuters) – Not far from an enormous crater where a fertilizer plant stood before an explosion there killed 15 people, lifeless and uprooted trees surround boarded-up homes spray-painted with “OK.”
