New York mayoral hopeful discusses father’s suicide
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio revealed on Monday that his father took his own life in 1979 after a long struggle with alcoholism and late-stage cancer.
Two U.S. generals ousted over failure to secure Afghan base
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the Marine Corps on Monday effectively fired two U.S. generals over their failure to defend a major base in Afghanistan from a deadly Taliban attack last year, in an extraordinary and rare public censure.
Detroit’s expected bond default seen raising constitutional issue
(Reuters) – Detroit is poised to default on about $641 million of its general obligation bonds on Tuesday, an event that is likely to spur a legal challenge over Detroit’s decision to take tax money earmarked for bond payments and apply it instead to c…
At least 3 killed in fiery crash of small jet in California
SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) – At least three people, including a wealthy California construction executive, were believed killed in the fiery crash-landing of a small jet at Santa Monica airport after a flight from Idaho’s Sun Valley resort area…
Obamacare push accelerates as government shutdown nears
(Reuters) – The Obama administration accelerated its push to persuade individual Americans to sign up for the most extensive overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system in 50 years, even as the program’s foes in Congress fought to delay its launch with the …
At least five people trapped by rock slide in Colorado mountains
DENVER (Reuters) – Mountain rescuers were dispatched on Monday to save at least five people buried by rubble from a rock slide in the Colorado Rockies southwest of Denver, officials said.
NY driver beaten by motorcycle gang after highway chase
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A gang of motorcyclists on Sunday chased a New York man driving his wife and baby along a Manhattan highway before dragging the man from his vehicle and beating him, a police source said on Monday.
U.S. Postal Service defaults on $5.6 billion for future health benefits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service on Monday defaulted yet again on a prepayment for the healthcare of its future retirees as its finances remain in the red and legislative reform remains elusive.
Last homeless Sandy victims to be evicted from NY city-funded hotel rooms
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Roughly 300 New Yorkers still living in hotels paid for by the city after being left homeless by Superstorm Sandy will be forced to vacate their rooms this week after a judge ruled the program was too costly to continue.
Italian judge orders new DNA tests on knife in Knox retrial
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – An Italian judge presiding over the retrial of American student Amanda Knox on Monday ordered new DNA tests on the knife that prosecutors say was used to kill her British roommate in 2007.
