U.S. Justice Department rape statistics understate problem: study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice should change how it counts the number of sexual assaults that occur in the United States because its tally understates the numbers by possibly as much as seven-fold, an outside advisory panel said …
Husband of former Florida politician Katherine Harris found dead
MIAMI (Reuters) – The husband of former Congresswoman and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was found dead, an apparent suicide, on Tuesday, according to police and a family pastor.
Accused L.A. gunman moved from hospital to U.S. marshals’ custody
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The man charged with a deadly shooting frenzy at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month has been released from a hospital where he was recovering from bullet wounds and placed in the custody of federal marshals, a …
In Oklahoma, water, fracking – and a swarm of quakes
NORMAN, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Seismologist Austin Holland wants to start an earthquake.
Albuquerque, N.M., voters to decide on abortion limits
SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) – Voters in Albuquerque will decide on Tuesday on an initiative that would outlaw most late-term abortions in New Mexico’s largest city, marking the first such measure placed on a municipal ballot in the United States.
Secret U.S. court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A secret U.S. intelligence court let the National Security Agency collect an expanded amount of data about Americans’ email even after finding that the agency systematically exceeded the limits of a smaller program, newly rele…
Blast kills two at Antwerp refinery, gasoline unit shut
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An explosion at Total’s Antwerp refinery in Belgium, Europe’s second-largest, killed two people, forced the evacuation of the site and caused the shutdown of a gasoline producing unit on Tuesday.
Another U.S. city mulls bankruptcy due to soaring wages and pensions
DESERT HOT SPRINGS, California (Reuters) – A resort town in California warned on Tuesday that it will run out of money by March due to burdensome salary and pension costs and could join other U.S. cities that have recently filed for bankruptcy protecti…
Miami judge denies bond for hijacker returned home from Cuba
MIAMI (Reuters) – A former member of the Black Panther Party charged with hijacking a U.S. plane and forcing it to fly to Cuba nearly 30 years ago, was denied bail in U.S. federal court on Tuesday.
U.S. court orders government to stop collecting nuclear waste fees
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the federal government can no longer require nuclear power plant operators to pay fees into a nuclear waste fund, in a victory for the utilities that challenged the fees.
