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By way of Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California and many of its cities will quickly be paying more for public pensions after the state's large retirement system voted on Tuesday to alter the best way it calculates contributions. The move by the board of the California Public Workers' […]
Via David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia lawmakers on Tuesday voted to allow bars and churches to decide for themselves whether or not to let gun homeowners raise weapons into their buildings. The measure heads for the state Senate after the members of Georgia's House of Representatives authorized the regulation […]
Via Susan Cooper Eastman JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – A Florida jury taking into consideration for a fourth day in the trial of a middle-aged man who shot and killed a young person right through an argument over blaring rap tune mentioned on Saturday it had reached a verdict on all […]
(Reuters) – Eleanor Roosevelt was named the best first girl of the USA in a survey of historians launched on Saturday, while Michelle Obama, in fifth situation, edged out Hillary Clinton in sixth. Roosevelt, whose husband, Franklin, served as president from 1933 to 1945, has come up No. 1 every […]
By Steve Holland RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has settled right into a Presidents Day vacation weekend of golf with friends at a secluded barren region retreat where many presidents have discovered refuge from the storms of the White Home. Obama is at Sunnylands, a southern […]
By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – A federal jury on Wednesday discovered former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin guilty of accepting bribes and buying and selling on the public belief all through the very important years of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina devastated town in 2005. A jury of […]
Through Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress authorized rules on Wednesday to increase U.S. federal borrowing authority for a year, bowing to President Barack Obama's calls for for a debt restrict raise with none conditions. However last action in the Senate came most effective after an hour-long nail-biting […]
With the aid of David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) – A lethal wintry weather storm potentially more damaging than the one that paralyzed Atlanta just two weeks ago gripped the southern United States on Wednesday, crippling go back and forth, knocking out energy to more than 330,000 clients and encasing magnolia […]
By using David Brunnstrom and Alex Dobuzinskis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. missionary being held in North Korea used to be moved from a hospital back to a labor camp last month on the same day he made a public attraction for Washington to help get him house, the U.S. […]
By way of Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Victoria Nuland, the top U.S. diplomat for Europe who angered one of the crucial very people she is supposed to domesticate by crudely disparaging the European Union in a leaked phone name on America's Ukraine policy, isn’t any stranger to the facility […]
A person with two suspicious luggage attempted to climb a White Home fence on Friday sooner than being apprehended, resulting in a security lockdown of the White Home grounds. The area around the White Home used to be shut down and reporters weren’t allowed to go away thru one of […]
(Reuters) – Almost a million houses and businesses were without power largely in the U.S. Northeast on Wednesday afternoon following extreme snow and ice storms in a single day, in step with native power companies. The hardest hit state was Pennsylvania with over 720,000 consumers out. Other affected states were […]
By way of Scott Malone and Victoria Cavaliere BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The newest in a series of iciness storms hit the USA on Wednesday, threatening to drop up to a foot of snow in primary New England, snarling travel and consuming into supplies of salt wanted to maintain roads […]
Growth in the U.S. products and services sector quickened to a four-month excessive in January and hiring remained tough, an trade document confirmed on Wednesday. Financial data agency Markit mentioned its services and products sector buying managers index rose to 56.7 from fifty five.7 in December. Carrier sector employers brought […]
(Reuters) – A person convicted of four 1993 murders escaped from a principal Michigan prison all over the Super Bowl broadcast and is on the unfastened after kidnapping a lady and forcing her to power to Indiana, prison authorities mentioned on Monday. Michael David Elliot, forty, escaped Sunday evening from […]
