Analysis: Two factors key to lawsuits over New York train crash
NEW YORK (Reuters) – For lawyers preparing to sue over Sunday’s deadly New York commuter rail accident, their success in court may depend largely on two factors: whether human error caused the derailment and if state or federal law governs railroad saf…
Major U.S. railways to offer health benefits to gay workers’ spouses
(Reuters) – The largest U.S. freight carriers will begin providing medical benefits to the spouses of gay union workers, a rail company coalition said on Wednesday, a day after two same-sex couples sued BNSF Railway for denying equal benefits.
NSA gathers data on cellphone locations globally: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Security Agency gathers nearly 5 billion records a day on the location of mobile telephones worldwide, including those of some Americans, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing sources including documents …
Objectors in Detroit bankruptcy ask to appeal directly to circuit court
DETROIT (Reuters) – Organizations that objected to Detroit’s bankruptcy separately asked the U.S. judge overseeing the case late on Wednesday to allow an appeal of the case to go directly to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Obama says he’s not allowed iPhone for ‘security reasons’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The troubled mobile phone maker BlackBerry still has at least one very loyal customer: U.S. President Barack Obama.
Google’s mystery barge in San Francisco Bay under investigation
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The agency that oversees development in the San Francisco Bay in California has begun a formal investigation into the construction of a secretive Google Inc barge on an island in the bay.
Pentagon focused on weapons, data fusion as F-35 nears combat use
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 fighter jet is making good progress as it nears initial combat use by the U.S. Marine Corps in July 2015, but the company must still finalize the software needed to deliver weapons and fuse data from i…
Streetcar not desired in Cincinnati as council suspends project
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Cincinnati City Council members voted on Wednesday to suspend construction on a $133 million streetcar project aimed at connecting urban communities so it can assess the feasibility of the project.
Briton, German identified as Arizona skydiving fatalities
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Two skydivers who died after colliding in midair and plummeting to the ground in a jump earlier this week in Arizona were a Briton and a German, police said on Wednesday.
Derailed NY train had alert mechanism, but not in driver’s car: source
(Reuters) – The New York commuter train that derailed killing four people on Sunday had a safety system designed to keep its engineer alert but it was not installed in the car from which he was controlling the train, a source familiar with the railroad…
