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Reports on surveillance of Americans fuel debate over privacy, security

Reports on surveillance of Americans fuel debate over privacy, security

By Mark Hosenball and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The controversy over whether or not the government is violating electorate' privacy rights while trying to protect them from terrorism escalated dramatically on Thursday amid experiences that authorities have accrued knowledge on millions of telephone customers and tapped into servers at […]

 
 

Threatening letters sent to N.Y. Mayor may contain ricin: police

Threatening letters sent to N.Y. Mayor may contain ricin: police

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two letters addressed to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his gun keep watch over crew contained subject material believed to be the deadly poison ricin, and referenced the controversy on gun regulations, police stated on Wednesday. The New York Police Department said preliminary assessments […]

 
 

Judge rejects legal challenges by accused Colorado theater gunman

Judge rejects legal challenges by accused Colorado theater gunman

DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado decide on Wednesday rejected challenges to the state's madness protection statute and dying penalty law with the aid of accused movie theater gunman James Holmes, in keeping with courtroom documents. "The provisions within the insanity statutes and the loss of life penalty statute challenged by […]

 
 

U.S. spelling bee starts with a new challenge : definitions

U.S. spelling bee starts with a new challenge : definitions

By Ian Simpson OXON HILL, Maryland (Reuters) – Once in a while-fearful contestants in the USA' Scripps Nationwide Spelling Bee launched two days of competitors on Wednesday, facing the brand new challenge of not simplest having to spell vague words correctly, but additionally understanding what they mean. A complete of […]

 
 

Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states

Powerful tornadoes strike in four central U.S. states

By using Chris Francescani (Reuters) – A tremendous storm entrance swept north through the important United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half of-mile broad twister that struck close to Oklahoma City. Information experiences said at least one particular person had […]

 
 

Insight: The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill

Insight: The road to a greener America is littered with road-kill

With the aid of Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – In October 2004, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by using General Motors Corp. The "California Hydrogen Freeway," Schwarzenegger's vision […]

 
 

Insight: The fight for North Dakota’s fracking-water market

Insight: The fight for North Dakota’s fracking-water market

By way of Ernest Scheyder WATFORD CITY, North Dakota (Reuters) – In cities across North Dakota, the wellhead of the North American vitality boom, the locals have taken to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for consuming, and water is for fighting." It's no longer that they lack water, like Texas […]

 
 

Feds, University of Montana reach deal to reform handling of rape cases

(Reuters) – The departments of justice and schooling have reached agreements with the University of Montana to reform the way faculty officers respond to rape accusations, the businesses mentioned on Thursday. The deal follows a executive investigation into allegations that the university had did not aggressively pursue sexual assault and […]

 
 

Boston police chief: U.S. needs more security at big events

Boston police chief: U.S. needs more security at big events

By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Main public situations in america just like the Boston Marathon need tighter safety but officials must steer clear of transferring toward a "police state," Boston's top cop mentioned on Thursday at a congressional hearing into ultimate month's bombing. Town's police commissioner, Edward Davis, known […]

 
 

Accused Cleveland kidnapper ordered held on $8 million bond

By Daniel Trotta and Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) – A former school bus driver accused of kidnapping three young women and raping them during a decade of captivity in his home was on Thursday ordered held on $8 million bond in a Cleveland court, his head bowed and his face […]

 
 

FBI says lab tests link Mississippi man to ricin letters

FBI says lab tests link Mississippi man to ricin letters

By using Emily Lane JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) – A mud mask and different gadgets seized from the martial arts studio of a Mississippi man charged with sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and two different public officers examined positive for ricin, according to a court document released on Tuesday. […]

 
 

Obama says too soon to declare demise of his domestic agenda

Obama says too soon to declare demise of his domestic agenda

Through Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – along With his fight for tighter gun keep watch over measures defeated and possibilities for a deficit reduction percent dim, President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to venture an image of a leader still in regulate of a faltering home coverage agenda. At a […]

 
 

Jury weighs fate of abortion doctor in murder trial

By means of Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A Philadelphia jury ended its first day of deliberations on Tuesday without achieving verdicts within the homicide trial of a physician accused of killing babies and a affected person throughout late-time period abortions at a clinic serving low-profits girls. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, […]

 
 

Republican split on immigration blunts party rebranding

Republican split on immigration blunts party rebranding

By using Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When a bipartisan group of senators commenced writing regulation to overhaul the nation's immigration laws in January, many Republican leaders embraced the hassle as a savvy technique for fixing the celebration's tattered image with Hispanic voters. However since the invoice was rolled out […]

 
 

Biden, law enforcement to attend Boston memorial for slain officer

Biden, law enforcement to attend Boston memorial for slain officer

Via Scott Malone and Samuel P. Jacobs BOSTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of regulation enforcement agents from around the us of a plan to attend a memorial on Wednesday for a campus police officer who authorities say was once slain by the accused Boston Marathon bombers, and Vice President Joe Biden […]