Civil rights groups target Florida’s race-based educational goals
ORLANDO (Reuters) – Civil rights groups are targeting Florida with a new petition drive and grassroots movement to overturn the state’s race-based educational achievement goals, which they argue will cripple a generation of students of color.
Search suspended for crew member of crashed U.S. Navy copter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military on Thursday suspended its search for a missing crew member from a Navy helicopter that crashed off the Virginia coast a day earlier, killing two sailors, officials said.
IRS should create, adopt U.S. taxpayer bill of rights: watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service should take steps to restore public trust in its work, including adopting a taxpayer bill of rights that clearly states individuals’ rights to fair treatment from the tax agency, an IRS watchdog …
Most uninsured Americans lack knowledge about Obamacare: survey
MIAMI (Reuters) – Most uninsured adult Americans lack basic knowledge about President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law and haven’t visited their online insurance marketplace because they think health insurance is unaffordable, according to a sur…
Jury begins deliberating in California police brutality case
SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) – Jurors began deliberating on Thursday in the trial of two former California policemen charged in the 2011 beating death of a mentally ill homeless man, an incident that touched off protests and political upheaval in th…
Family of Asiana victim files claim against city of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The family of a teenage girl who was struck and killed by emergency vehicles in the aftermath of an Asiana Airlines plane crash filed a civil claim against the city of San Francisco, alleging gross negligence.
Two missile-launch crew at U.S. base in Montana suspended in drug probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two missile-launch crew members at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana have been implicated in an illegal narcotics operation and have had their access to classified information suspended, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday…
Family of Kenneth Bae says accepts Rodman’s apology over outburst
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The sister of Kenneth Bae, the U.S. missionary jailed in North Korea, said on Thursday that her family accepted former U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman’s apology for his remarks about her brother.
Convict on trial for plot to decapitate U.S. judge, prosecutor
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A convict bent on revenge plotted to have the federal judge and prosecutor who sent him to prison decapitated and their heads preserved in formaldehyde as souvenirs, a government lawyer told jurors in federal court in New York on T…
Obama meets lawmakers ahead of intelligence reform decisions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama met with 16 lawmakers on Thursday to discuss reforming how U.S. intelligence agencies collect telephone and internet data after damaging revelations by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snow…
