U.S. calls Guantanamo hunger strikes ‘non-religious fasting’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New Guantanamo Bay U.S. prison guidelines describe hunger striking detainees as undergoing “long term non-religious fasting,” a copy of the document obtained by Reuters shows.
New Jersey teen who sued parents returns home: lawyers
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New Jersey teen who drew international attention when she sued her parents to demand they pay her tuition after she moved out of their house has decided to return home, but their legal battle has not yet been settled, attorneys s…
Georgia Senate votes to erect statue to Martin Luther King Jr
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The Georgia Senate voted Wednesday to allow the first monument to the late civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr. on the state Capitol grounds.
U.S. adds $750 million to Northrop ballistic missile defense contract
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency said on Wednesday it had added $750 million to Northrop Grumman Corp’s contract to manage the information technology of the U.S. ballistic missile defense system.
New York’s Albany County seeks to limit crude oil processing
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s Albany County on Wednesday issued a moratorium on the expansion of crude oil processing in the Port of Albany, pending a public health investigation.
NSA ‘hijacked’ criminal botnets to install spyware
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – While U.S. law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking the so-called botnets as a resource for spying.
Colorado boy, 4, safe after being taken by car jacker, police chase
DENVER (Reuters) – A 4-year-old pajama-clad boy was left unattended in a vehicle that was carjacked by a fugitive and survived a high-speed police chase in the Denver area on Wednesday, police said.
Maryland mall shooter may have copied Columbine massacre: police
MARRIOTTSVILLE, Maryland (Reuters) – The gunman who killed two store employees at a Maryland mall early this year may have been obsessed with the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and left a journal behind in which he wrote that he might already be d…
Katz’s New York deli sues food trucks in name dispute
(Reuters) – The owners of New York City’s iconic Katz’s Delicatessen filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the operators of local food trucks named Katz & Dogz, claiming the trucks are a blatant attempt to dupe consumers.
Man charged with mailing package bomb to ‘America’s toughest sheriff’
(Reuters) – Federal agents have arrested an Oklahoma man accused of mailing a package bomb last year addressed to Joe Arpaio, the controversial Arizona lawman who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff,” officials said on Tuesday.
