California university students charged in racist bullying of roommate
(Reuters) – Three California university students accused of taunting their black roommate with racial slurs and references to slavery, once trying to clamp a bicycle lock on his neck, have been charged with hate crimes in an incident that has roiled th…
Hand over tax audit information, clock is running: IRS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service audit, already a feared ordeal, will get even sharper teeth in January when the IRS will start setting strict deadlines for delivery of information it wants from companies and wealthy people it i…
California exchange rejects extension of Obamacare-canceled plans
(Reuters) – California’s new health exchange will not allow canceled policies to extend past the end of the year, defying President Barack Obama’s effort to repair his pledge that people can keep their current plans.
Insurers in three states to pilot ‘direct enrollment’ for Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Insurance companies in three states – Florida, Texas and Ohio – will help the government figure out how to use “direct enrollment” to boost enrollment in health plans as part of the Obamacare, the Obama administration announced o…
Toy guns won’t look like real ones under proposed California bill
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Pellet guns and other toy weaponry should not be allowed to look like the real thing, a California lawmaker said Friday, vowing to introduce a bill to ban such replicas following the accidental killing of a 13-year-ol…
Pennsylvania court may hear gay marriage ban challenge in June
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – One of the first challenges to a state ban on gay marriage since the U.S. Supreme Court partially struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act is likely to go to trial in June in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
On 50th anniversary of JFK death – tears, memories, suspicion
DALLAS (Reuters) – U.S. President John F. Kennedy was remembered as a transcendent leader of a rising nation at a ceremony in Dallas on Friday, the 50th anniversary of his assassination, while bitterness remained for many who disbelieve the official st…
Son of U.S. man held in N. Korea says has not heard from father
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The son of an 85-year-old California retiree and Korean War veteran who was detained by North Korean authorities last month during a trip to the reclusive Asian nation said on Friday he has had no communication with his father s…
Three wounded in Ohio shooting spree; police kill suspect
(Reuters) – An Ohio man suspected of critically wounding an ex-girlfriend and the son of another former girlfriend in a shooting rampage on Friday was killed by police in a gunfight in a store parking lot that left an officer seriously wounded, police …
Rights group asks U.S. judge to halt NSA phone data program
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday urged a federal judge to halt a U.S. spy agency’s sweeping collection of telephone data, arguing that the program goes beyond what Congress authorized and violates the constitutional rig…
