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1. BREAKING: Religious Freedom in US Scores Huge Victory in Boston City Hall Christian Flag Case

Religious freedom in the United States scored a huge victory Monday when the Supreme Court ruled that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment by refusing to fly a local organization's Christian ...

Created on 02 May 2022

2. Biden Taps California Sen. Kamala Harris as Running Mate

... on mandatory busing for students as a means to desegregate schools. Some Biden advisers have told Reuters the attacks made them question whether she would be a trusted working partner because of her political ...

Created on 11 August 2020

3. Seattle Reduces Police Funding, Signals Deeper Cuts Ahead

... to the construction site at a juvenile detention facility. The SPD has been under a federal consent decree for excessive use of force since 2011. © 2020 Reuters, All rights reserved. (Reporting by Gregory ...

Created on 11 August 2020

4. FBI Director Warns Facebook Could Become Platform of 'Child Pornographers

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Friday that Facebook's proposal to encrypt its popular messaging program would turn the platform into a "dream come true for predators and child pornographers." Wray, ...

Created on 04 October 2019

5. Billionaire Oilman Dies at 91

Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens, known in sports circles as a mega-booster to Oklahoma State athletics, died Wednesday at his Dallas home. He was 91. Pickens reportedly donated about $500 million to ...

Created on 11 September 2019

6. Hurricane Dorian's Death Toll Rises to 45 in Bahamas, but Church Survives the Stor

... worst disaster in the nation's history. Large swaths of Greater Abaco Island were destroyed. Reuters journalists saw search crews using geotagging technology to mark the locations of bodies in the hard-hit ...

Created on 10 September 2019

7. Prayer Alert: Cargo Ship Overturns off Georgia Coast; 20 of 23 Passengers Rescued

A South Korean cargo vessel carrying about 4,000 cars bound for the Middle East was listing heavily on Sunday off the coast of the southern U.S. state of Georgia, an official of operator Hyundai Glovis ...

Created on 09 September 2019

8. Pope Francis Slams Corrupt Political and Business Leaders in Passionate Sermon

Pope Francis, ending his visit to Mozambique, on Friday scolded political and business leaders in the resource-rich but poor East African country who allow themselves to be corrupted by outsiders. On his ...

Created on 06 September 2019

9. Hurricane Dorian's Death Toll in Bahamas Climbs to at Least 2

... Bahamas during the storm were killed. President Donald Trump said the United States was sending supplies, including materials originally intended for any Dorian victims in Florida. © 2019 Thomson Reuters. ...

Created on 05 September 2019

10. 5 Rescued, 34 Missing After California Boat Fire

A search was under way on Monday for 34 missing people in a pre-dawn fire that sank a commercial diving boat off a Southern California island, authorities said, and some local media outlets reported that ...

Created on 02 September 2019

11. 7 Killed, 21 Wounded in Texas Mass Shooting

The death toll in Saturday's gun rampage in West Texas rose to seven on Sunday, local media reported, and police said they would hold a news conference later in the day. Police had earlier said five people, ...

Created on 01 September 2019

12. Sign of the Times? Hezbollah Threatens to Launch 'Surprise' Strike Against Israe

... fought a deadly month-long war with Israel in 2006, also told Reuters earlier on Tuesday. A regional security official said the drone incident was "a strike that dealt a blow to Hezbollah's capabilities ...

Created on 28 August 2019

13. Conservative Billionaire Donor David Koch Dies at 79

Billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world's richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and political candidates, ...

Created on 23 August 2019

14. Brazilian President Says NGOs to Blame for Raging Fire That Continues to Ravage Amazon

The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, weeks after telling donors he did not need ...

Created on 22 August 2019

15. Florida Trucker Allegedly Plotted Church Shooting

Federal authorities said they have arrested a Florida truck driver who "was thinking about shooting up a church" in Memphis this week, making him at least the fourth person this month charged with plotting ...

Created on 20 August 2019

16. Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Tragic Afghan Wedding Attack

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Sunday for a suicide blast at a wedding reception in Afghanistan that killed 63 people, underlining the dangers the country faces even if the ...

Created on 18 August 2019

17. Catholic Church Asks for Prayer as Scores Sue for Sexual Abuse in New York

Scores of people in New York state who were sexually abused as children sued institutions, including the Roman Catholic Church, on Wednesday, the first day a new law temporarily enabled them to file lawsuits ...

Created on 15 August 2019

18. Six Police Officers Shot in Philadelphia During Drug Raid

Six Philadelphia police officers were shot and wounded on Wednesday in a shootout during a drug raid on a house and negotiators were urging the shooter to surrender as gunfire continued to ring out. Around ...

Created on 14 August 2019

19. Alleged Sex Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein Commits Suicide in Prison

Jeffrey Epstein, the U.S. financier facing federal sex trafficking charges, hanged himself on Friday night in his lower Manhattan jail cell, several U.S. media outlets reported on Saturday. Epstein, 66, ...

Created on 10 August 2019

20. 10 Killed in Ohio Mass Shooting

... people in southwestern Ohio, followed the mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where 20 were killed and 26 others wounded on Saturday morning. © 2019 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. ...

Created on 04 August 2019