Veterans healthcare bill advances in U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An expansion of healthcare and education programs for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cleared its first procedural hurdle on Tuesday, as Democrats in the U.S. Senate attempted to win passage of the legislation this w…
House oversight panel seeks documents on Target breach
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A House of Representatives committee with broad investigative jurisdiction has turned up the heat on Target Corp, demanding that the No. 3 U.S. retailer turn over internal documents and messages describing how and when it learned…
Asiana fined $500,000 for slow aid to crash families
(Reuters) – U.S. regulators fined Asiana Airlines Inc $500,000 on Tuesday for failing to assist the families of passengers on a flight that crashed in San Francisco in July in which three people were killed and more than 180 injured.
Obama hosts Boehner for rare, private Oval Office chat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner met for about an hour on Tuesday in a rare, one-on-one Oval Office discussion between two leaders who have fought bitterly during fiscal crises over the past severa…
Pressure mounts on Arizona governor to veto bill dubbed anti-gay
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Pressure mounted on Arizona’s governor on Tuesday to veto a controversial bill described by critics as anti-gay, with at least two advisers to Republican Jan Brewer saying they had urged her to nix the measure.
New York Knicks guard Felton arrested on weapons charges
(Reuters) – New York Knicks guard Raymond Felton turned himself in to police Tuesday on charges he possessed a gun that he was not registered to have in New York City, after his wife’s divorce lawyer took the weapon to a local police station, authoriti…
Judge orders Obamacare insurers in Louisiana to accept HIV funds
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A U.S. district court judge in Louisiana has temporarily barred Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and two smaller insurers from rejecting payments from a federal program intended to help low-income HIV patients buy health insu…
Supreme Court ruling eases police search of suspect’s home
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to law enforcement agencies by making it easier for police to search a dwelling without a warrant.
U.S. fair housing group files complaint against Deutsche Bank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Foreclosed houses managed by Deutsche Bank in black and Latino neighborhoods had more broken windows, damaged roofs, overgrown lawns and trash in the yard than those it managed in nearby white neighborhoods, a nonprofit group sai…
Teen’s killer presses appeals as Missouri prepares his execution
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Missouri officials on Tuesday were fending off a flurry of late appeals from convicted killer Michael Taylor as they prepared for his execution by lethal injection shortly after midnight.
