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.
“I did not kill Meredith”, Knox pleads in email to Italian court
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – U.S. student Amanda Knox pleaded her innocence in the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in an email to an Italian court on Tuesday, saying she was afraid to appear in person for fear of conviction.
Florida school named for Ku Klux Klan leader to change title
(Reuters) – A Florida high school whose name commemorates a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group with a history of lynchings and other violent acts against blacks, is to be renamed, officials said on Monday.
U.S. Navy official to plead guilty in contracting scandal: report
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy official accused of leaking confidential information to a Singapore-based company at the center of a military contracting scandal is expected to plead guilty in a California court on Tuesday, media reported.
