U.S. ban on guns that escape metal detectors set to expire
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 25-year-old U.S. ban on any firearms that can escape discovery by a metal detector is scheduled to expire next month, just as law enforcement officials say they are closely watching the proliferation of plastic guns made with 3…
Kennedy cousin could be freed ahead of new trial for 1975 murder
MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) – Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel could walk free from prison next week after 11 years behind bars as he awaits a new trial for the 1975 murder of a teen-age neighbor.
One dead as fire hits Chevron refinery in Mississippi
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Chevron Corp worker was killed in a fire that broke out early Friday morning at a cracking unit at the major U.S. oil company’s 330,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
One dead as fire hits Chevron refinery in Mississippi
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A Chevron Corp worker was killed in a fire that broke out early Friday morning at a cracking unit at the major U.S. oil company’s 330,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Analysis: In Texas courtroom, a battle resumes over race
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Last June the U.S. Supreme Court faced a question it has wrestled with repeatedly for more than a generation: When may universities consider a student’s race in making admissions decisions?
Exclusive: U.S. official in July feared HealthCare.gov ‘crash’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Almost three months before the botched launch of HealthCare.gov, a U.S. health official expressed frustration with a main contractor working on the website, fearing quality assurance issues could “crash the plane at take-off,” ac…
Pennsylvania paper retracts editorial panning Gettysburg Address
(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania newspaper on Thursday retracted an 1863 editorial that dismissed President Abraham Lincoln’s now revered Gettysburg Address delivered during the U.S. Civil War as “silly remarks” deserving a “veil of oblivion.”
CIA collecting data on international money transfers: media
(Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is collecting records of international money transfers under the same law that the National Security Agency uses to collect Americans’ phone and Internet records, the New York Times and Wall Street Journ…
White House: Obama would veto Republican healthcare bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama would veto a bill sponsored by a Republican congressman that would allow insurers to offer healthcare plans slated to be canceled because they do not meet the new U.S. healthcare law’s standards, the White …
Woman arrested after bomb found at Washington state hospital
SEATTLE (Reuters) – A 43-year-old Washington state woman was arrested after a bomb was found in a vehicle parked in front of a hospital roughly 30 miles outside of Seattle, the Bremerton Police Department said on Thursday.
