Obama says he’s not allowed iPhone for ‘security reasons’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The troubled mobile phone maker BlackBerry still has at least one very loyal customer: U.S. President Barack Obama.
Google’s mystery barge in San Francisco Bay under investigation
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The agency that oversees development in the San Francisco Bay in California has begun a formal investigation into the construction of a secretive Google Inc barge on an island in the bay.
Pentagon focused on weapons, data fusion as F-35 nears combat use
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 fighter jet is making good progress as it nears initial combat use by the U.S. Marine Corps in July 2015, but the company must still finalize the software needed to deliver weapons and fuse data from i…
Streetcar not desired in Cincinnati as council suspends project
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Cincinnati City Council members voted on Wednesday to suspend construction on a $133 million streetcar project aimed at connecting urban communities so it can assess the feasibility of the project.
Briton, German identified as Arizona skydiving fatalities
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Two skydivers who died after colliding in midair and plummeting to the ground in a jump earlier this week in Arizona were a Briton and a German, police said on Wednesday.
Derailed NY train had alert mechanism, but not in driver’s car: source
(Reuters) – The New York commuter train that derailed killing four people on Sunday had a safety system designed to keep its engineer alert but it was not installed in the car from which he was controlling the train, a source familiar with the railroad…
U.S. spy agency gathers data on cellphone locations globally: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Security Agency gathers nearly 5 billion records a day on the location of mobile telephones worldwide, including those of some Americans, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing sources including documents …
Arctic air spreads cold, snow from Rockies to Great Lakes
DENVER (Reuters) – A powerful Arctic cold front blanketed the western and central United States on Wednesday, dropping heavy snow on the Colorado Rockies across to the Great Lakes and bringing frigid temperatures across the region.
Newtown massacre recordings reveal calm, anguish and gunshots
DANBURY, Connecticut (Reuters) – A teacher calmly explains she has been shot in the foot. Another woman, sounding anguished, pleads for help. A custodian relays information from officers at the scene to a police operator.
Ex-paramedic in Texas fertilizer blast sentenced in unrelated case
(Reuters) – A former paramedic who responded to a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal pipe bomb charges unrelated to the blast, prosecutors said.
