| Longest U.S. suspension bridge celebrated New York-style Posted: 21 Nov 2014 01:02 PM PST  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was celebrated on Friday as an engineering marvel on the 50th anniversary of its opening, but a proposed toll increase for the longest suspension bridge in the United States put a damper on the birthday party. When traffic began crossing the Brooklyn-to-Staten Island span in 1964, it was the first time that all five New York City boroughs could be reached without traveling on water. ...
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| House leader: Obama 'sabotages' bipartisan immigration policy Posted: 21 Nov 2014 11:58 AM PST  By Amanda Becker and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Friday that President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration had sabotaged chances for bipartisan legislation and vowed to lead a fight to block the order. Republicans remain split on the best course of resistance to Obama's action easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants, but conservative groups were already pulling together legal strategies to challenge it. ...
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| Agency: Schools helped Lanza's mom 'appease' him Posted: 21 Nov 2014 10:37 AM PST  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The school system unwittingly enabled Adam Lanza's mother to "accommodate and appease" him as he became more withdrawn socially, according to a state report issued Friday on the man who carried out the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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| New York officer shot dead unarmed man in Brooklyn: New York Times Posted: 21 Nov 2014 10:04 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City police officer on routine patrol shot and killed an unarmed man in the dimly lit stairwell of a public housing project in Brooklyn, the New York Times reported on Friday. The uniformed officer and his partner encountered the 28-year-old man while on "vertical patrol" at about 11 p.m. on Thursday at the Louis H. Pink Houses in the East New York section of Brooklyn, police said in a statement. The statement did not say whether the man was carrying a weapon. But the Times reported witnesses said the man was unarmed. ... |
| Conservatives, states set to launch legal blitz against Obama over immigration Posted: 21 Nov 2014 09:49 AM PST  By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - The morning after President Barack Obama announced his sweeping action to overhaul the U.S. immigration system, conservative groups and states were already pulling together legal strategies to dismantle the plan. Opponents said there will likely be a three-pronged legal approach to stymie Obama's moves: Congress could sue the president for constitutional overreach, states could file lawsuits arguing the action strains local finances, or individuals could try to prove they've been harmed by the order. ...
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| Florida State reopens library where three shot, gunman killed Posted: 21 Nov 2014 09:01 AM PST  By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE Fla. (Reuters) - Florida State University reopened its main library on Friday, the day after a gunman injured three people when he opened fire in the lobby of the building where hundreds of students were studying for final exams. Normal activities resumed on the North Florida campus, where one student was critically injured by an alumnus who fired a semi-automatic handgun in the lobby of Strozier Library around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday and then was shot dead outside by law enforcement officers. ...
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| House GOP sues administration over health care law Posted: 21 Nov 2014 08:28 AM PST  Republicans says Obama overstepped his legal authority in carrying out the ACA.
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| House Republicans sue over Obama's healthcare law Posted: 21 Nov 2014 07:53 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday sued over the implementation of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, according to court documents. The lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in Washington against the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Treasury, challenges two actions taken by the administration while implementing the law, also known as Obamacare. (Reporting By Amanda Becker and Lawrence Hurley in Washington; Editing by Susan Heavey)
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| Holder urges police restraint ahead of grand jury decision in Ferguson Posted: 21 Nov 2014 07:37 AM PST  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday urged police to use restraint amid potential protests that could follow the upcoming grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri case involving a police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in August. "The Justice Department encourages law enforcement officials, in every jurisdiction, to work with the communities they serve to minimize needless confrontation," Holder said in a video address released by the department. ...
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| Thanksgiving grease cooks up plumbing disasters Posted: 21 Nov 2014 07:20 AM PST  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thanksgiving is a royal pain in the U.S. drain. Thanksgiving means turkey dinners, family gatherings and football. For household drains and aging sewers across the United States, it means a lot of grease going down the pipes - and into the sewers. For some harried cooks, the simplest way to get rid of fat from turkeys, bacon and roasts is down the kitchen drain. There it congeals, clogging the pipe and trapping food scraps until the only solution is to call the plumber. ...
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| 100-year-old woman sees the ocean for the first time Posted: 21 Nov 2014 06:13 AM PST  ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — Ruby Holt spent most of her 100 years on a farm in rural Tennessee, picking cotton and raising four children. She never had the time or money to go to a beach.
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| Bandits in Guinea steal suspected Ebola blood Posted: 21 Nov 2014 04:37 AM PST  CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Roadside bandits in Guinea stole a cooler containing blood samples that are believed to have Ebola, officials said Friday, warning of the risks and vowing tighter security measures for transport of such potentially contagious cargo.
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| What the Cosby uproar says about how far we've come Posted: 21 Nov 2014 03:15 AM PST  For decades, those who accused Cosby did so in the context of a world inclined not to believe them.
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| Israel says Hamas planned to assassinate Lieberman in West Bank Posted: 21 Nov 2014 02:25 AM PST  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has arrested four Palestinians suspected of planning to kill Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an anti-tank rocket while he drove to his Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials say. The alleged Hamas plot was hatched during the July-August war in Gaza. Its disclosure comes as ties fray between Israel and U.S.-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the West Bank, over a contested Jerusalem shrine. ...
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| Woman with gun arrested outside White House after Obama's immigration speech Posted: 20 Nov 2014 10:32 PM PST (Reuters) - A woman demonstrating outside the White House on Thursday night was arrested for carrying a gun, the Secret Service said, shortly after President Barack Obama began a speech unveiling sweeping reforms to the U.S. immigration system. April Lenhart, 23, of Mount Morris, Michigan, was arrested around 8:30 p.m. local time, Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback said in an email. Obama had started his speech some 30 minutes earlier, during which he imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation. The executive actions ease the threat of deportation for some 4. ... |
| Ferguson awaits grand jury outcome after police arrest protesters Posted: 20 Nov 2014 07:52 PM PST  By Scott Malone and Daniel Wallis FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - Police in Ferguson, Missouri, kept alert on Thursday for signs of tension after arresting five people for blocking a street the night before in a protest demanding the criminal indictment of a white police officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager in August. The St. Louis suburb has been bracing for months to learn whether a St. Louis County grand jury will charge police officer Darren Wilson in the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a case that has become a flashpoint for often-troubled U.S. race relations. ...
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| Obama: US will make immigration 'more fair and just' Posted: 20 Nov 2014 06:14 PM PST  We were strangers once, too," Obama declared, in a primetime national address from the White House. The plan that Obama outlined will allow undocumented migrants who have been living illegally in the United States for five years and have US-born children to apply for three-year work permits. The administration estimates the program, along with broadening the eligibility of young migrants to seek papers under a different program, will help just under half of the country's 11 million illegal immigrants.
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| Obama: Immigration shouldn't be 'deal breaker' Posted: 20 Nov 2014 05:58 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Republican opposition to his executive actions on immigration should not be a "deal breaker" on other issues.
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| Obama says his immigration plan is lawful Posted: 20 Nov 2014 05:09 PM PST  By Roberta Rampton and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama planned on Thursday to impose the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation, easing the threat of deportation for about 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with outraged Republicans. In excerpts ahead of his 8 p.m. (0100 GMT Friday) speech, Obama rejected Republican critics who say his actions are tantamount to amnesty for illegal immigrants and urged them to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation. The real amnesty, he said, was "leaving this broken system the way it is. ...
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| New York patient tests negative for Ebola, Missouri patient awaits results Posted: 20 Nov 2014 04:20 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A traveler who returned from Mali tested negative for Ebola at a New York City hospital on Thursday, and a patient who recently came back from West Africa awaited test results at a Missouri hospital, health officials said. Preliminary test results showed the traveler who returned to the United States from a trip to Mali does not have the disease, but the patient will remain in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center for further testing, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation said in a statement. ...
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| Obama to transform immigration policy Posted: 20 Nov 2014 03:34 PM PST  The president will call for a sweeping overhaul of the immigration policy that will affect five million people.
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| California man may walk free next week after 36 years in prison Posted: 20 Nov 2014 02:26 PM PST  DNA evidence and the discovery of suppressed documents have exonerated Michael Ray Hanline in the 1978 murder case that landed him in prison for over three decades, authorities said.
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| Where is Darren Wilson? Posted: 20 Nov 2014 01:54 PM PST  The Ferguson police officer remains out of sight as the grand jury decision looms.
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