U.N. panel to weigh dangers of oil-by-rail cargo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.N. panel will examine the rules for handling the kind of oil-by-rail shipments involved in several recent fiery derailments in a move that could rattle the fast-growing sector.
Addition of Korean name for Sea of Japan becomes law in Virginia
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – Legislation requiring that the Korean name for the Sea of Japan be included in new school textbooks has become law in the U.S. state of Virginia, a victory for Korean-American campaigners backed by the South Korean govern…
Florida legislature says no dice for casinos this year
TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) – The Florida legislature on Thursday gave up on efforts to open the state to casino gambling, conceding that a deal “is not in the cards.”
Daughter of slain Iraqi-American woman says parents clashed
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The daughter of an Iraqi-American man charged with killing his wife two years ago in what was first probed as a hate crime testified on Thursday that her parents had fought over plans for her to marry a cousin in the months leadin…
U.S. Army names Fort Hood shooter, says had mental illness
FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) – The soldier suspected of shooting dead three people before killing himself at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas was identified as Ivan Lopez, a man battling mental illness when he went on a rampage, the base commander said o…
Exclusive: U.S. states probing security breach at Experian unit
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A number of U.S. states are jointly investigating a data breach involving a subsidiary of Experian Plc that exposed the social security numbers of some 200 million people to potential criminal activity.
Senate panel votes to declassify report on CIA interrogations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to declassify its long-awaited report on the CIA’s use of brutal interrogation methods that critics say amount to torture.
Death toll in Washington state mudslide rises to 30
DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) – The death toll in a Washington state mudslide that wiped out a rural community last month rose to 30 on Thursday as one more body was extricated from a pile of muck and debris, the Snohomish County medical examiner’s …
Obama’s NSA overhaul may require phone carriers to store more data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s plan for overhauling the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program could force carriers to collect and store customer data that they are not now legally obliged to keep, according to U.S. offi…
New Jersey man guilty of murder in daughter’s car-seat drowning death
(Reuters) – A New Jersey man was found guilty of first-degree murder on Thursday for tossing his toddler daughter, strapped in her car seat weighted down by a tire jack, into a frigid creek, prosecutors said.
