Two Americans kidnapped from ship off Nigeria released
ABUJA (Reuters) – Two Americans who were kidnapped from their ship by pirates off the coast of Nigeria last month have been released, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.
U.S. mayor plans ballpark near site of slave cemetery, market
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) – The mayor of Richmond, Virginia, announced plans on Monday to build a minor-league baseball park near the site of a slave market and cemetery, prompting an outcry over what protesters said would be desecration of the area…
Heroin overdose, drug deal cases go before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court took on cases involving a heroin overdose and a drug deal gone wrong on Tuesday as the justices weighed what prosecutors needed to prove in order to convict defendants of certain federal offenses.
U.S. Catholic bishops’ new leaders concerned with poor
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – U.S. Catholic bishops elected two centrist conservatives as new leaders on Tuesday, an archbishop from Kentucky and a Texas cardinal, both of whom expressed “solidarity” with Pope Francis’ strong emphasis on the poor.
Former border cops who made smugglers eat pot get two years in prison
TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) – Two ex-U.S. Border Patrol agents who forced a group of suspected drug smugglers to chew handfuls of marijuana and flee shoeless into the chilly Arizona desert were each sentenced on Tuesday to two years in federal prison.
Senior House Democrat favors letting Americans keep health policies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives said on Tuesday that Americans receiving health insurance cancellation notices because of Obamacare should be able to keep their current policies.
New Obamacare sign-up effort aligns with expected website fix
(Reuters) – A new push to sign up Americans for insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law will begin in December, when the government’s faulty enrollment website is expected to work better, an advocacy group leading the campaign said on T…
Man indicted in North Carolina for trying to aid Syria rebel group
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) – A Pakistani native accused of trying to aid a group deemed a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government has been indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina, the U.S. Justice Department said o…
Detroit wants to keep banker’s fee secret
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – The judge overseeing Detroit’s historic bankruptcy filing has made clear he expects full disclosure of professional fees billed in the case. On Thursday the city will ask for an exception: fees paid to its banker.
Recommendation on death penalty for accused Boston bomber near
BOSTON (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts will decide within a week whether to recommend the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev if he is convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing.
