Penn State officials argue to toss out Sandusky-related charges
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Three Penn State administrators accused of covering up child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky headed for court on Tuesday to argue that their case should be dismissed because their attorney testified aga…
U.S. Holocaust museum gets long lost diary from top Hitler aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The long-lost diary kept by a top aide to Adolf Hitler as he oversaw the genocide against Jews and others during World War Two, a key piece of evidence during the Nuremberg trials, was handed over on Tuesday to the U.S. Holocaust…
UAW wants to eliminate two-tier wage system: official
DETROIT (Reuters) – A top official with the United Auto Workers said the American labor union wants to eliminate the two-tier wage system that pays new automotive workers at a lower rate than veterans.
U.S. drops royalty hike plan for some drilling; taxpayers hit: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. taxpayers will forgo more than $1 billion in revenue in the next decade now that officials have dropped plans to increase royalty rates for drilling on federal land, a report released on Tuesday concluded.
Two men sentenced to life for racial killings in Oklahoma
(Reuters) – Two Oklahoma men were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Monday, for the race-based killing of three black people whom they shot indiscriminately from a car in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 6, 2012, prosecutors said…
U.S. drops royalty hike plan for some drilling; taxpayers hit: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. taxpayers will forgo more than $1 billion in revenue in the next decade now that officials have dropped plans to increase royalty rates for drilling on federal land, a report released on Tuesday concluded.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation names new CEO
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Tuesday its new Chief Executive would be Susan Desmond-Hellmann, an oncologist and public health expert who is currently the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
U.S. court urged to reject Israeli attempt to silence witness
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Lawyers for the family of an American teenager killed in a 2006 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv urged a U.S. court on Tuesday to reject an attempt by Israel to muzzle a witness in an anti-terrorism case, court documents showed.
Snowden makes case for Brazil asylum, offers help
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has offered to collaborate with a Brazilian investigation into the NSA surveillance program he revealed earlier this year, according to a letter published in a local newspa…
Genting to spend $3-4 billion in Las Vegas in push for U.S. gaming empire
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Genting Bhd, Southeast Asia’s biggest gaming group, will spend an initial $3 billion to $4 billion to develop an unfinished resort on the Las Vegas strip, as it seeks to build a U.S. empire of casino and leisure assets.
