Accused Boston bomber’s lawyers want more time to argue against execution
BOSTON (Reuters) – Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday asked for more time to make their case that the 20-year-old ethnic Chechen should be spared the possibility of execution if convicted of the April attack.
NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have been caught using secret government surveillance tools to spy on the emails or phone calls of their current or former spouses and lovers in the past decade, according …
Florida family claims cover-up of killing by cop
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – A Florida family filed a complaint with a state disciplinary board on Friday alleging that a medical examiner covered up a homicide by a police officer whose dashboard camera in May recorded him pursuing and running over a …
Ex-NFL player Hernandez fiancée, two others, indicted in murder
BOSTON (Reuters) – The fiancée of Aaron Hernandez, the former National Football League star accused of murdering semi-pro player Odin Lloyd, was indicted along with two other people on charges related to the case, local prosecutors said on Friday.
Top U.S. Treasury official named lead on Detroit bankruptcy
DETROIT (Reuters) – Don Graves, a deputy assistant secretary and top economic development official at the U.S. Treasury, will spearhead the federal response to the city of Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing.
Ex-EPA adviser admits to fraud, CIA stint claim, 13 years of lies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adviser pleaded guilty on Friday to cheating the government out of $886,186 over 13 years of telling lies, including claims he had malaria and that he was working on a CIA project, of…
Planned Parenthood sues Texas over abortion restrictions
(Reuters) – Planned Parenthood, the largest U.S. abortion provider, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday challenging part of a new Texas law which the group said will dramatically reduce access to safe abortions, especially in rural areas of the …
Former U.S. soldiers charged in plot to kill drug agent, informant
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two former U.S. soldiers have been extradited to New York from Thailand to face charges of plotting to murder a U.S. federal drug agent and informant as part of an international drug smuggling operation, authorities said.
U.S. clears Arkansas Medicaid expansion proposal
(Reuters) – The U.S. government approved Arkansas’ proposal to use federal money targeted for expanding the Medicaid health program for the poor to help low-income residents buy private insurance under President Barack Obama’s healthcare law.
Nigerian pleads not guilty in U.S. court to aiding al Qaeda group
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Nigerian citizen pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court in Brooklyn on Friday to helping an al Qaeda affiliate recruit English-speaking people in Nigeria.
