Four dead in apparent Connecticut murder-suicide
(Reuters) – A man suspected of shooting three women to death inside a Connecticut apartment committed suicide in front of police just moments after putting down a 13-month-old child that had been in his arms, police said on Sunday.
Cash-strapped Iranian students in U.S. hope nuclear deal will ease tuition woes
(Reuters) – When Mohammad Hamedi Rad arrived in the United States last year, he carried his Iranian passport, a hard-won student visa and a backpack containing $14,000 in hundred dollar bills, because there was no simpler way of getting money into the …
U.S. war veteran released by North Korea returns home
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An 85-year-old Korean War veteran held for more than a month by North Korea as a war criminal arrived in San Francisco on Saturday to be reunited with his family
Elderly survivors commemorate Pearl Harbor attack
HONOLULU (Reuters) – American survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many in their 90s, gathered on Saturday for the 72nd anniversary of the attack that took the lives of more than 2,000 of their peers and thrust the United States into World…
Supreme Court justice denies stay in airline merger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Supreme Court justice on Saturday night denied a last-ditch effort by a group of consumers and travel agents to stop the merger of American Airlines and US Airways.
Teenager dies on Atlanta-bound flight, plane diverted
(Reuters) – A 16-year-old boy from a military family died on Saturday while traveling on an Atlanta-bound Delta Air Lines flight to celebrate the Christmas holidays with relatives, officials said.
U.S. ice storm causes blackouts, delays in Texas, Arkansas
DALLAS (Reuters) – Freezing weather gripped parts of the United States on Saturday, with hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and Arkansas coping in the cold without power after a winter storm made roads impassable and caused severe flight delays.
Obama takes up new agenda item after battering on healthcare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, battered by weeks of turmoil over the malfunctioning HealthCare.Gov website, turned to a fresh item on his agenda on Saturday as he pressured Republicans in Congress to extend benefits for jobless American…
U.S. war veteran released by North Korea returns home
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – An 85-year-old Korean War veteran held for more than a month by North Korea as a war criminal arrived in San Francisco on Saturday to be reunited with his family
Pearl Harbor survivors to commemorate attack that drew U.S. into World War Two
HONOLULU (Reuters) – American survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many of them in their 90s, will gather on Saturday near Honolulu to mark the anniversary of the attack in 1941 that took the lives of more than two thousand of their peers …
