Canada loses patience on Keystone XL, tells U.S. to decide
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada bluntly told the United States on Thursday to settle the fate of TransCanada Corp’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline, saying the drawn-out process on whether to approve the northern leg of the project was taking too long.
Soldier killed after helicopter makes hard landing near Savannah
ATLANTA (Reuters) – One U.S. soldier was killed and two were injured when a Black Hawk helicopter made a “hard landing” on Wednesday night during a training flight at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, the Army said on Thursday.
Plea doesn’t bar wrongfully convicted man’s suit against New York City : court
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A man whose 1998 murder conviction was overturned can sue New York City for violating his constitutional rights even though he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the crime, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Gunman, two others dead in Indiana supermarket shooting
(Reuters) – A 22-year-old man was identified by police on Thursday as the gunman who killed a shopper and an employee at an Indiana supermarket before police shot him dead.
Washington cities can ban pot shops despite state OK
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – Cities in Washington state may still opt to ban or regulate marijuana businesses within their municipal boundaries despite a voter-approved state law legalizing recreational pot, the state attorney general said on Thursd…
Insight: Battle over police pensions in U.S. cities takes ugly turn
(Reuters) – A drive by some American cities to cut costly police retirement benefits has led to an extraordinary face-off between local politicians and the law enforcement officers who work for them.
Pregnant woman’s killer executed in Ohio by new two-drug method
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A man condemned for a rape and murder convulsed and appeared to struggle for breath during his execution in Ohio on Thursday after a two-drug lethal injection method was used for the first time in the United States, according to m…
HealthCare.gov security again under scrutiny by politicians
BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A cybersecurity professional warned that the U.S. government failed to implement fixes to protect the HealthCare.gov website from hackers at a congressional hearing that Democratic lawmakers claimed was politically motivat…
Search for Wall Street Journal reporter missing in New Jersey
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A search is under way for a Wall Street Journal reporter missing for nearly a week after telling his wife he was taking a short walk, New Jersey authorities said on Thursday.
U.S. likely to widen ban on profiling of criminal suspects
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is likely to widen a ban on the profiling of suspects by race to include other categories such as religion, country of origin, gender and sexual orientation, a person familiar with an internal review s…
