U.S. court may allow suits against Guantanamo forced feeding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court showed a potential willingness on Friday to allow Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers to sue over being force-fed, a practice the Obama administration says is necessary to keep order but that critics call inhumane…
Exclusive: NSA delayed anti-leak software at base where Snowden worked -officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands of highly classified documents, c…
N.Y. man arrested, charged with trying to join al Qaeda
CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (Reuters) – U.S. officials on Friday arrested a 25-year-old man in a New York suburb and charged him with trying to travel to Yemen to join al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the most active wings of the militant network….
Lawyer for accused Massachusetts crime lab chemist asks leniency
BOSTON (Reuters) – A lawyer for a former chemist accused of falsifying thousands of drug tests at a Massachusetts crime lab urged a judge on Friday to be lenient in sentencing his client, arguing she had already suffered severely as a result of the sca…
Lawyer for accused Massachusetts crime lab chemist asks leniency
BOSTON (Reuters) – A lawyer for a former chemist accused of falsifying thousands of drug tests at a Massachusetts crime lab urged a judge on Friday to be lenient in sentencing his client, arguing she had already suffered severely as a result of the sca…
U.S. air marshal relieved of duties after arrest for upskirt photos
(Reuters) – A federal air marshal was relieved of his duties and will be suspended or fired after he used his cell phone to take photographs underneath the skirts of female passengers as they boarded an aircraft, federal authorities said Friday.
Waves of change wash over Jersey Shore in Sandy aftermath
BRICK TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (Reuters) – Navigating neighborhoods ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, the mayor of Brick Township, New Jersey, can tick off which residents are rebuilding and which ones gave up and left.
San Francisco rail workers strike, throwing commute into chaos
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Commuter rail workers in the San Francisco Bay Area walked off their jobs on Friday after talks on a new contract broke down over workplace rules, throwing the morning commute into chaos in the traffic-clogged Northern Califor…
Ohio family of six dies in collision with police car
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A family of six died in a car crash just outside Columbus, Ohio, early on Friday after being hit by a police vehicle rushing to the scene of a robbery, police said.
Kansas ex-attorney general license suspended over abortion case conduct
(Reuters) – The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday indefinitely suspended the law license of former state Attorney General Phill Kline for violating 11 rules of professional conduct in connection with his prosecution of abortion providers.
