U.S. VP Biden congratulates wrong man in Boston mayor’s race
BOSTON (Reuters) – As he watched the returns in Boston’s most competitive mayoral race in two decades on Tuesday night, Marty Walsh’s cell phone rang.
CIA paying AT&T to provide call records – NY Times
(Reuters) – The CIA is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to provide phone records for overseas counter-terrorism investigations, the New York Times reported, quoting government officials.
Former welder apt to lead UAW would keep the torch out of talks
DETROIT (Reuters) – Dennis Williams, expected to become the next leader of the United Auto Workers union, is apt to carry on the less confrontational policies of current president Bob King, union and industry officials said.
Analysis: At Supreme Court hearing, passions over religion and its rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the U.S. Supreme Court talks about religion, all hell breaks loose.
New Silk Road drug bazaar opens a month after FBI bust
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A new anonymous Internet marketplace for illegal drugs debuted on Wednesday, with the same name and appearance as the Silk Road website shut down by U.S. law enforcement authorities a month ago.
In the messaging war on Obamacare, both sides get personal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wayne Dofflemyer is no fan of Obamacare.
Sotheby’s triumphs with $290 million Impressionist and modern art sale
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Impressionist and modern art achieved strong prices on Wednesday as Sotheby’s held one of its biggest auctions ever, in a dramatic turnaround from two nights of disappointing sales at Christie’s earlier this week.
New Mexico man sues over repeated anal probes by police
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) – A New Mexico man has filed a lawsuit claiming police subjected him to repeated anal probes and enemas after a routine traffic stop because they suspected he was hiding drugs.
Home where Oswald slept night before Kennedy assassination now museum
DALLAS (Reuters) – The suburban Dallas home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before he assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy opened as a museum on Wednesday ahead of the 50th anniversary of the shooting later in November.
San Francisco sheriff details failed effort to find hospital patient
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Sheriff’s deputies searching for a patient at a San Francisco hospital failed to look in all the stairwells and missed the one where the woman was found dead 17 days after she disappeared, the local sheriff said on Wednesday.
