New Jersey’s Christie allies joke about another traffic jam: documents
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two people at the heart of a traffic scandal dogging New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joked weeks earlier about causing traffic problems in front of the home of a rabbi, documents released on Thursday show.
Judge delays trial for accused Colorado theater gunman Holmes
CENTENNIAL, COLORADO (Reuters) – A Colorado judge on Thursday set a new trial date for October 14 for James Holmes, the former neuroscience graduate student accused of killing 12 moviegoers in a shooting spree at a Colorado cinema in 2012.
British man charged with hacking Federal Reserve computers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A British man has been charged with hacking into computer servers belonging to the U.S. Federal Reserve, and then widely disclosing personal information of people who use them.
Identity theft leads top consumer complaints in U.S.: FTC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The seemingly intractable problem of identity theft once again led the list of top consumer complaints in 2013, with U.S. consumers reporting that they lost $1.6 billion to various types of fraud, the Federal Trade Commission sai…
Bin Laden son-in-law faces trial in U.S. on terror charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Suleiman Abu Ghaith, one of Osama bin Laden’s sons-in-law and a former spokesman for al Qaeda, heads to trial next week in New York on terror-related charges in a case that could feature testimony from several al Qaeda figures.
Republicans pick eight cities to compete for 2016 convention
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Republican National Committee on Thursday named eight cities that will compete to host the 2016 national convention to formally nominate the party’s presidential candidate.
U.S. safety regulators open probe of GM’s handling of recall
DETROIT (Reuters) – U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into whether General Motors Co reacted fast enough in its recall of more than 1.6 million cars over an ignition-switch defect linked to 13 deaths in crashes.
U.S. proposes major update to food labels in bid to combat obesity
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Packaged foods sold in the United States would display calorie counts more prominently and include the amount of added sugar under a proposal to significantly update nutritional labels for the first time in 20 years as health off…
FBI offers reward over anti-Mormon graffiti attacks in Idaho
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – The FBI on Wednesday offered a $5,000 reward for help tracking down vandals who spray-painted anti-Mormon graffiti on three churches in a spree of defacements that left a predominantly Mormon town in southeastern Idaho shocked…
Detroit uses stick and carrot to sell bankruptcy plan
(Reuters) – In his effort to keep Detroit on a fast track to end its historic bankruptcy, the city’s emergency manager has cobbled together a plan to cajole or even threaten key creditors to accept cuts he laid out in federal court filings last week, o…
