Sought in child porn, ex-head of Delaware prep school is missing
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Law enforcement officials were hunting on Friday for the former headmaster of an elite college prep school in Delaware who vanished after being charged with dealing in child pornography.
Once an activist, U.S. envoy Power now fights as a diplomat
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Three months into Samantha Power’s tenure as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, human rights activists who favor military intervention have learned to temper their hopes that she would push aggressively for using force to…
Adoption group calls for U.S. laws to stop online child trading
(Reuters) – A study by a major U.S. adoption research group calls for “targeted laws, policies and practices” to stop adoptive parents from giving their unwanted children to strangers through the Internet.
Toronto mayor’s lawyer tells police to release alleged crack video
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s lawyer said on Friday his client was not smoking crack cocaine in a video that has been seen only by a few but has dominated Canadian headlines for months, and he urged the city’s police to release the video…
GM recalls some new pickup trucks in U.S. to fix seatbacks
DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co is recalling nearly 19,000 of its all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks to repair a problem with the manual reclining seatback, according to a notice from U.S. auto safety regulators on Frid…
U.S. appeals court backs employer in ‘contraception mandate’ case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court in Washington joined other courts on Friday by ruling for an employer who raised religious objections to a provision of the 2010 U.S. healthcare law requiring companies to provide insurance that covers bir…
Oklahoma gay couple marry under Native American law
EL RENO, Oklahoma (Reuters) – In a small chapel at historic Fort Reno, a same-sex couple has exchanged wedding vows in Oklahoma, a state where gay marriage is banned.
Scaffolding fall injures three in New York’s Times Square
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A scaffolding collapse amid strong winds and heavy rains injured three people in New York City’s busy Times Square on Friday, authorities said.
Snowden writes to Germans to seek support in spy row
BERLIN (Reuters) – Fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has told Germany he is counting on international support to stop Washington’s ‘persecution’ of him for revealing the scale of its worldwide phone and Internet surveillance.
National groups send a prayer to the Supreme Court
GREECE, New York (Reuters) – Bankrolled by powerful outside interests, what began as a dispute aired in the pages of a town’s local newspaper next week moves to the U.S. Supreme Court where justices could potentially roll back legal precedents that lim…
