CIA chief vows fast review of declassifying interrogation report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the CIA on Friday promised a quick review of whether a Senate report on the agency’s use of “enhanced interrogation” methods on foreign terrorism suspects can be released on an unclassified basis, apparently moving to…
Rhode Island House speaker’s home, office searched in federal probe
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) – U.S. federal law-enforcement officials searched the office and home of the speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, Gordon Fox, on Friday, according to his spokesman.
Former Russian executive indicted in U.S. on tax dodge charges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former executive of a large Russian steel company has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Missouri on charges that he hid millions of dollars offshore from U.S. tax authorities, the Justice Department said on Friday.
U.S. to allow some people to enroll in Obamacare after deadline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration will soon issue new Obamacare guidelines allowing people to enroll in health coverage after a March 31 deadline, but only under certain circumstances, according to sources close to the administration.
Washington state man who put infant in freezer gets 16 years
OLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) – A Washington state man who prosecutors said beat his crying infant daughter and put her in a freezer for 90 minutes so he could take a nap was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in prison, authorities said.
Four dead, three critically hurt in Jersey Shore motel fire
POINT PLEASANT BEACH, New Jersey (Reuters) – An early morning fire tore through a Jersey Shore motel popular with fishermen on Friday, killing four people and critically injuring three others, law enforcement officials said.
Immigrant, famous for hiding in church, freed from U.S. detention
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A Mexican immigrant activist, who once famously sought refuge from deportation in a Chicago church, has been released from detention, U.S. immigration officials said on Friday, after she returned to the United States seeking to st…
Judge strikes down Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage
DETROIT (Reuters) – Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution and must be overturned, a federal judge ruled on Friday in the latest in a series of court decisions to allow gay couples to wed.
Ohio rejects death row inmate’s organ donation request
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Ohio rejected a request from a death row inmate to donate a kidney to his mother, saying there was not enough time for transplant surgery ahead of the execution.
Couple in U.S. lived on yacht, collected welfare: prosecutor
(Reuters) – A couple who collected food stamps and other public assistance from Minnesota while living on a yacht in Florida were being sought on fraud charges, prosecutors said on Friday.
