Senior U.S. Republican to target state, local tax deduction
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress’ top Republican tax law writer is drawing up a plan to rewrite the tax code and is likely to recommend repeal of a popular and costly federal tax deduction for state and local taxes paid, congressional aides sai…
Exotic language stalls U.S. trial of Guinea Bissau’s ex-navy chief
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States is struggling to prosecute one of the prized catches in its global war on drugs, Guinea Bissau’s former navy chief Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, because lawyers cannot find enough translators who speak his native K…
Colorado floodwaters menace state’s $41 billion agriculture sector
DENVER (Reuters) – Colorado farmers and ranchers are bracing for widespread damage to the agriculture industry, one of the state’s leading economic engines, from deadly floodwaters that already have caused property losses estimated at nearly $2 billion…
Pennsylvania town council votes to oust police chief over videos
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A town council in rural Pennsylvania voted on Thursday to dismiss the police chief after profanity-laced videos showing him firing automatic weapons in support of gun rights surfaced on the Internet.
Texas executes man convicted in botched gang murders
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A man convicted for his role in the murder of four women near the Mexican border in a botched gang hit meant to kill another woman was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Thursday.
Same firm checked background of Navy Yard shooter, Snowden
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The company that scrutinized former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden for a U.S. government security clearance said on Thursday it also checked the background of the Navy Yard shooter, allowing him to obtain a “secret” clearan…
ACLU faults ‘suspicious activity’ reporting by law enforcement
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A newly disclosed trove of “suspicious activity reports” filed by police under a federal domestic intelligence network shows a program rife with ethnic profiling and useless tips that subject innocent Americans to counterterrori…
TV pitchman Trudeau released after day in jail
(Reuters) – Infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau was released from a Chicago jail on Thursday, a day after a federal judge ordered him locked up for failing to pay $38 million in fines over allegedly false promises made in a weight-loss book.
Likely death toll in Colorado floods rises to at least 10
DENVER (Reuters) – The likely death toll from massive Colorado flooding rose to 10 on Thursday after the body of a man was discovered near a river drainage area and another person whose home was washed away was listed as presumed dead, with 140 other p…
Anguish in court as Detroit residents object to bankruptcy filing
DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit residents, city retirees and even two city council members stood Thursday where dozens of bankruptcy lawyers have gone before them: before Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, arguing why their city does not belong in bankruptcy …
