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.
50 years after JFK’s death, daughter takes public office in Tokyo
TOKYO (Reuters) – Caroline Kennedy, daughter of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, arrived in Japan on Friday to take up her first high profile job in public office, making a late start to a political career for which her family is renowned.
U.S. Navy to declare Boeing’s P-8A spy plane ready for use: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy is expected to announce soon that Boeing Co’s P-8A aircraft, a long-range maritime surveillance plane based on the company’s 737 airliner, is ready for initial operational use, sources familiar with the program said…
Hawaii judge refuses to block new same-sex marriage law
HONOLULU (Reuters) – Opponents of Hawaii’s new gay marriage law failed in their bid to block implementation of the measure on Thursday when a judge refused to grant a court order preventing marriage licenses from being issued to same-sex couples beginn…
Military says ordnance blast killed four U.S. Marines in California
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – An explosion of live ordnance caused Wednesday’s accidental deaths of four U.S. Marines while they were conducting routine maintenance in an artillery zone at Camp Pendleton in California, a base spokesman said on Thursday.
U.S. officials crush 6 tons of ivory in bid to end illegal trade
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Reuters) – Highlighting a pledge to crack down on the multibillion-dollar illicit global trade in wildlife, U.S. authorities on Thursday pulverized 6 tons of seized ivory from thousands of elephants slaughtered by poachers for the…
