Boston marathon charity donations rise a year after bombing
BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston marathon runners are poised to set an off-course record this year, in the form of charity fundraising.
Health secretary resigns after Obamacare launch woes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning after overseeing the botched rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, a White House official said on Thursday.
Cleveland Clinic exports marquee Ohio brand to Abu Dhabi
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s late king, Khalid bin Abdul Aziz, went there for heart surgery. The late United Arab Emirates president, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, traveled 7,000 miles to get there for his kidney transplant. For decades the…
El Nino more than 50 percent likely by summer: U.S. weather forecaster
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The chances have increased over the past month that the much-feared El Nino phenomenon, which has the potential to wreak havoc on global crops, would strike by summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the federal U.S. weather forecaster …
Mother in high-profile international custody fight returned to U.S
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A woman who sparked a high-profile international custody fight when she took her two U.S.-born children to her native Slovakia and failed to return on time returned to the United States on Thursday to face criminal charges, the …
Clever chimps at Kansas City Zoo make brief break to freedom
KANSAS CITY (Reuters) – Seven chimpanzees used an improvised ladder from a tree to scale a wall and briefly escape their enclosure at the Kansas City Zoo on Thursday, a zoo official said.
Slow-moving landslide prompts evacuations in Wyoming resort town
(Reuters) – A slow-moving landslide prompted the evacuation of dozens of homes in the upscale Wyoming community of Jackson amid reports the mass was gaining speed and could dislodge a hillside neighborhood, a city manager said.
U.S. agency recommends shorter prison sentences for drug offenders
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Up to 70 percent of all federal drug offenses could carry shorter prison sentences if the recommendation passed on Thursday by an agency that advises U.S. federal judges on sentencing is not opposed by Congress.
CIA’s ‘harsh interrogations’ exceeded legal authority: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A classified U.S. Senate report found that the CIA’s legal justification for the use of harsh interrogation techniques that critics say amount to torture was based on faulty legal reasoning, McClatchy news service reported on Thu…
Judge restores $120 million in tobacco settlement to Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A Philadelphia judge on Thursday set aside most of an arbitration ruling that could have cost the state of Pennsylvania some $180 million from a landmark 1998 settlement with the nation’s tobacco companies.
