Ford recalls 2013 Escape SUVs for seventh time
DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co’s bad safety streak with its 2013 Escape continued on Tuesday as the automaker issued two more recalls for the second most popular sport utility vehicle in the U.S. market.
Ho! Ho! Hold on! Massachusetts mall Santa charged with groping coworker
BOSTON (Reuters) – A man who worked as a Santa Claus in a Massachusetts shopping mall has been ordered not to put the red suit back on until a court resolves a charge that he groped an adult coworker over the weekend.
U.S. government plan adjusts 2014 risk payments for health insurers
(Reuters) – The U.S. government has issued a proposal that would likely increase risk payments in 2014 to health insurers offering plans on the Obamacare exchanges after the companies complained a recent policy change allowing people to keep their insu…
Insight: A new wave of U.S. mortgage trouble threatens
(Reuters) – U.S. borrowers are increasingly missing payments on home equity lines of credit they took out during the housing bubble, a trend that could deal another blow to the country’s biggest banks.
Florida Republican party calls on Congressman Radel to resign
(Reuters) – The Republican Party of Florida called on Republican Congressman Henry “Trey” Radel on Monday to resign after he pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of cocaine possession.
Seven wounded in Oakland shooting, police say
(Reuters) – A shooting in a residential area of Oakland left seven people wounded on Monday evening, police said.
No rise in Mass attendance for American Catholics, despite pope’s popularity
(Reuters) – The popularity of Pope Francis, who became pontiff in March, has failed to draw more U.S. Catholics to attend Mass, according to a Pew Research Center poll released on Monday.
In California, a vision of Republicans’ challenge on immigration
CERES, California (Reuters) – For most Republicans in the U.S. Congress, a large gathering of Hispanic voters to discuss immigration would be politically perilous – an invitation to complaints about the party’s longtime resistance to measures aimed at …
California university president says he ‘failed’ black student in hate crimes case
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The president of a California university said on Monday that he “failed” a black student whose roommates have been charged with hate crimes and battery for allegedly clamping a bicycle lock on his neck and weeks of harassment….
Wife of American pastor imprisoned in Iran fears for his life
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – The Idaho wife of an Iranian-American Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran said on Monday she felt betrayed and feared for her husband’s life after the Obama administration failed to secure his release as a condition of an Iran…
