| China's president arrives in Seattle to meet tech titans Posted: 22 Sep 2015 01:00 PM PDT  By Michael Martina and Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Seattle on Tuesday to kick off a week-long U.S. visit that will include meetings with U.S. business leaders, a black-tie state dinner at the White House hosted by President Barack Obama and an address at the United Nations. Xi and his wife touched down in an Air China 747 at Paine Field, adjacent to the massive plant where Boeing Co makes its largest jets, some 25 miles (40 km) north of Seattle.
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| White House seeks answers from China on U.S. woman detained in spy probe Posted: 22 Sep 2015 12:27 PM PDT  By Megha Rajagopalan and Jon Herskovitz BEIJING/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The White House has contacted China's Foreign Ministry over the detention of an American businesswoman accused of spying, a spokesman said on Tuesday, in a case that blew up just as President Xi Jinping began a visit to the United States. Sandy Phan-Gillis of Houston, Texas, has been held by Chinese authorities for about six months under suspicion of spying and stealing state secrets, according to a statement from her family released this week. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters it was "disconcerting" that many of the U.S. government's questions "have gone unanswered" by Chinese officials about the status of Phan-Gillis.
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| Pope's U.S. visit to focus on use of power and needs of the poor Posted: 22 Sep 2015 11:22 AM PDT  Pope Francis was to due to arrive in the United States on Tuesday bearing a message that the power and wealth that Washington symbolizes should be made to serve humanity, and not the other way around. The Argentine-born leader of the world's 1.2 billion member Roman Catholic church arrives in the U.S. capital from Cuba, where he urged a continued reconciliation between the Communist-run island and its superpower neighbor, building on a new detente he helped to broker earlier this year. The first Latin American pope's decision to go from Cuba to the world's most powerful and richest nation is freighted with symbolism as he pushes the Church to pay greater heed to people who live on the periphery.
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| Petraeus apologizes for giving classified info to mistress Posted: 22 Sep 2015 09:07 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Army Gen. David Petraeus apologized to Congress on Tuesday for sharing classified information with his biographer and mistress, Paula Broadwell. It was his first public testimony before lawmakers since resigning as CIA director.
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| Senate to sidestep abortion fight in funding bill Posted: 22 Sep 2015 08:35 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate, hoping to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown when federal funding runs out, are likely to advance a stop-gap spending bill that abandons attempts to halt funding for Planned Parenthood, Senator John Cornyn said on Tuesday. |
| Chicago mayor to present massive tax hike in 2016 budget Posted: 22 Sep 2015 08:02 AM PDT  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will present to a skeptical city council on Tuesday his 2016 budget proposal with an unprecedented property tax hike as he tries to dodge a financial crisis linked to unfunded pensions. Emanuel, who was elected to a second term in February, is asking the city's 50 aldermen to approve a $543 million increase in property taxes - between now and 2018 - to cover police and fire pensions. The stakes are high for Emanuel, as the third-largest U.S. city tries to overcome years of chronic deficit spending.
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| Obama, in prison documentary: U.S. legal system has been 'unjust' Posted: 22 Sep 2015 06:19 AM PDT  The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an unprecedented presidential visit to a prison. "They then get involved in the criminal justice system, and it just churns, and everybody thinks that's normal," the president told the nonviolent drug offenders at the medium-security El Reno federal prison in Oklahoma. Obama has made criminal justice reform a top priority of his final years in office and beyond.
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| Exclusive: Americans overpaying hugely for cancer drugs - academic study Posted: 22 Sep 2015 06:02 AM PDT Americans are paying way over the odds for some modern cancer drugs, with pharmaceutical companies charging up to 600 times what the medicines cost to make, according to an independent academic study. The United States also pays more than double the price charged in Europe for these drugs - so-called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), a potent class of cancer pills with fewer side effects than chemotherapy. The analysis by pharmacologist Andrew Hill of Britain's University of Liverpool, who will present his findings at the Sept. 25-29 European Cancer Congress in Vienna, is likely to fuel a growing storm over U.S. drug costs. |
| Clinton proposes $250 monthly cap on prescription drug costs Posted: 22 Sep 2015 05:45 AM PDT  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday will propose a $250 monthly cap on prescription drugs for patients with chronic or serious medical conditions in a drive against what she calls "excessive profiteering" by pharmaceutical companies. At a campaign stop in Iowa, Clinton will outline a plan to encourage the development and use of generic drugs and also would end drug companies' ability to write off consumer-directed advertising as a business expense. Under Clinton's plan the monthly cap would limit what insurance companies could ask patients to pay for drugs.
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| Exclusive: In clash with pope's climate call, U.S. Church leases drilling rights Posted: 22 Sep 2015 05:11 AM PDT  By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Casting the fight against climate change as an urgent moral duty, Pope Francis in June urged the world to phase out highly-polluting fossil fuels. On Francis' first visit to the United States this week, the business dealings suggest that some leaders of the U.S. Catholic Church are practicing a different approach to the environment than the pontiff is preaching.
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| Black men shot by white patrolman in Washington state face assault charges Posted: 22 Sep 2015 04:54 AM PDT Two unarmed black men shot by a white police officer pursuing them over a reported theft attempt in Washington state in May, leaving one paralyzed, are to be arraigned on Tuesday on felony assault charges, a local prosecutor said. Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin, brothers aged 24 and 21, will enter pleas at a hearing in Thurston County set for Tuesday morning, the local prosecutor's office said. The shooting in Olympia, Washington state's capital with about 48,000 residents, only about 2 percent of whom are black, triggered street demonstrations. |
| An insider's guide to the papal visit Posted: 22 Sep 2015 04:06 AM PDT  The pope's trip includes 18 scheduled stops in three states over six days.
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| The man Pope Francis should meet in Washington Posted: 22 Sep 2015 02:47 AM PDT  John Wojnowski has protested outside the Vatican Embassy in Washington for 17 years.
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| A thrifty Marco Rubio is poised to capitalize on Walker’s exit Posted: 22 Sep 2015 01:09 AM PDT  It suddenly looks like a two-man race between Rubio and Jeb Bush for the Republican establishment vote.
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| Security for Pope visit is ‘unprecedented,’ says FBI Posted: 21 Sep 2015 11:00 PM PDT  The historic visit will produce one of the biggest security operations in U.S. history.
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| Kentucky clerk Davis not complying with court order-plaintiffs Posted: 21 Sep 2015 08:12 PM PDT  By Steve Bittenbender LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - A county clerk from Kentucky who went to jail rather than issue marriage licenses to gay couples made material changes to the forms upon her return and is not in compliance with a federal court order, lawyers for couples suing her said on Monday. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis should be ordered to allow the licenses to be issued under the earlier format or the clerk's office should be put in receivership and fines imposed, the attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky said in a federal court filing. The issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky and other states has become the latest focal point in a long-running debate over gay marriage in the United States.
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| Former peanut company CEO sentenced to 28 years for salmonella outbreak Posted: 21 Sep 2015 06:16 PM PDT  The former owner of a peanut company in Georgia was sentenced to 28 years in prison on Monday for his role in a salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds, a rare instance of jail time in a food contamination case. Stewart Parnell, 61, who once oversaw Peanut Corporation of America, and his brother, Michael Parnell, 56, who was a food broker on the company's behalf, were convicted on federal conspiracy charges in September 2014 for knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted peanuts to customers. Contamination at the company's plant in Blakely, Georgia, led to one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history and forced the company into liquidation.
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| Walker exits 2016 presidential race Posted: 21 Sep 2015 05:42 PM PDT  By Steve Holland, Ginger Gibson and Erin McPike WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin abruptly pulled out of the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Monday, doomed by a lightning-quick collapse from serious contender to also-ran candidate struggling to raise money. Walker's departure left his rivals seeking the Republican nomination for the November 2016 presidential election scrambling to appeal to his supporters in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire as well as elsewhere. Experts saw potential gain for conservative candidates like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee as well as center-right contenders such as Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Jeb Bush.
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| U.S. justices unlikely to address death penalty's constitutionality Posted: 21 Sep 2015 04:34 PM PDT  When the last U.S. Supreme Court term ended in June with an unusual showdown over a decision approving Oklahoma's lethal injection process, some court watchers saw it as a sign the court might soon take up the bigger question of the constitutionality of the death penalty itself. In the June case, which upheld Oklahoma's procedures by a 5-to-4 margin, liberal justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined in a dissenting opinion that called for a full reexamination of capital punishment.
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| Peanut company CEO sentenced to 28 years for salmonella outbreak Posted: 21 Sep 2015 03:12 PM PDT By Rich McKay ALBANY, Ga. (Reuters) - The former owner of Peanut Corporation of America was sentenced in federal court on Monday to 28 years in prison for his role in a salmonella outbreak that was linked to nine deaths. In a rare case of criminal prosecution linked to food contamination, Stewart Parnell, the former owner of Peanut Corporation of America, and his brother, Michael Parnell, who was a food broker on behalf of the company, were convicted on federal conspiracy charges in September 2014 for knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted peanuts to customers. |
| AP sources: Walker to drop out of GOP presidential race Posted: 21 Sep 2015 01:48 PM PDT  Two people familiar with his decision say Scott Walker is dropping out of the Republican race for president.
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| Bergdahl lawyers seeks public release of military report on disappearance Posted: 21 Sep 2015 01:31 PM PDT  The lawyers for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl filed papers on Monday seeking the public release of the military report on the soldier who left his post in a remote part of Afghanistan and spent nearly five years imprisoned by the Taliban. The report on Bergdahl's disappearance and capture was put together by Major General Kenneth Dahl, who told a military hearing last week at a base in San Antonio that he did not believe the soldier should face jail time for his actions.. Bergdahl's defense counsel said in its filing: "These documents are unclassified.
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| Clinton says she won't let GOP 'tear up' health care law Posted: 21 Sep 2015 01:15 PM PDT  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday hailed President Barack Obama's health care law for reducing the rate of uninsured Americans and vowed to defend it against Republican opposition if she wins the White House.
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