Detroit manager sought SEC probe of banks over interest rate swaps
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit asked a U.S. regulator to consider bringing charges against two banks for costly interest-rate swaps that factored in the city’s record-setting municipal bankruptcy case, Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr testified on Frid…
Dangerous cold sets in as heavy snow blankets U.S. northeast
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – People across the northeastern United States on Friday dug out after a heavy snowfall that grounded flights, closed schools and government offices, caused at least three deaths and left the region in the grip of dangerously …
Second body found at site of Minneapolis apartment blast
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Fire crews on Friday recovered a second body in the debris of a Minneapolis apartment building destroyed by an explosion on New Year’s Day that also left at least 14 people injured, the fire department said.
Pentagon cuts list of places where U.S. troops get danger pay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Friday it had cut by about a third the list of places where U.S. troops would receive imminent danger pay, dropping locations like Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf in a move expected to reduce costs by abou…
Marijuana plants found at home of rogue U.S. banker: police
ATLANTA (Reuters) – More than 200 marijuana plants were found at the rented Florida home of a former Georgia bank director captured this week after vanishing for 18 months under suspicion of embezzling $21 million, authorities said on Friday.
Exclusive: U.S. waived laws to keep F-35 on track with China-made parts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon repeatedly waived laws banning Chinese-built components on U.S. weapons in order to keep the $392 billion Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter program on track in 2012 and 2013, even as U.S. officials were voicing conce…
U.S. appeals ruling against NSA phone surveillance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government appealed on Friday a federal court ruling that the gathering of Americans’ telephone records by the National Security Agency of was likely unlawful.
Man accused in South Carolina double murder escapes facility
(Reuters) – A man accused of killing his mother and stepfather, whose plastic-wrapped bodies police found inside a locked basement room in South Carolina in 2006, escaped on Thursday from a psychiatric hospital, authorities said.
Exclusive: Turmoil at East-West Center in Hawaii as energy team quits
HONOLULU (Reuters) – The East-West Center in Hawaii, a U.S. government-funded institute to promote better relations with Pacific and Asian nations, is hardly a center of harmony these days.
U.S. asks top court not to extend Catholics’ contraception exemption
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government asked the Supreme Court on Friday not to allow Roman Catholic-affiliated groups a temporary exemption from a part of the Obamacare healthcare law that requires employers to provide insurance policies covering …
