Chevron goes to trial in New York over $18 billion Ecuador award
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chevron Corp will try to convince a U.S. judge this week that a group of Ecuadorean villagers and their U.S. lawyer used bribery to win an $18 billion judgment against Chevron from a court in Ecuador, in the latest chapter in a lon…
San Francisco transit unions postpone strike for 24 hours
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Unions representing transit workers in the San Francisco area agreed on Sunday night to postpone for 24 hours a planned walkout that could cripple a rail system serving 400,000 riders a day.
U.S. justices to hear race case; one side has two voices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will delve into a decades-old debate over university admissions policies that favor racial minorities, hearing a Michigan case that picks up where the justices left off last session in a dispute …
Nine missing New Mexico teens accounted for-police
(Reuters) – Nine teenage boys who were missing from a ranch for troubled youths in southern New Mexico that has been under investigation for alleged abuse have been accounted for, police said on Sunday.
U.S. Senate leader sees chance for breaking fiscal impasse
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate negotiations to bring a boiling fiscal crisis to an end showed signs of progress on Sunday, but there were no guarantees that the U.S. federal government shutdown was about to end or that a historic default would be avoide…
Two arrested in shooting of five at Hmong festival in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Two men have been arrested for allegedly shooting five people at a weekend festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, held to celebrate the Hmong New Year, police said on Sunday.
Cuban-American novelist Oscar Hijuelos dies at 62: New York Times
(Reuters) – Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling novel “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” has died at the age of 62, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
Austin City Limits music festival rained out day early in Texas
(Reuters) – Organizers of the Austin City Limits music festival cut short the festival a day early on Sunday because of heavy rain and warnings of flash floods in the Texas capital.
Gabrielle Giffords eyes new N.Y. gun show background check
SARATOGA SPRINGS, New York (Reuters) – Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was in New York on Sunday to tour her first gun show since being shot in the head to review new measures that require background checks for buyers.
U.S. citizen found dead in Egyptian prison
CAIRO (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen was found dead in an Egyptian prison on Sunday in an apparent suicide six weeks after he was arrested for breaking a curfew, security sources said.
