GRANBURY, Texas, (Reuters) – At least six people were killed when a powerful tornado ripped through a neighborhood including a Habitat for Humanity low income housing area in the north Texas town of Granbury on Wednesday, marking the deadliest severe storm outbreak in the United States this year.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Washington’s top tax official was fired yesterday as Presi-dent Barack Obama sought to stem a rising tide of criticism in a scandal over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for special scrutiny.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Two health workers in Saudi Arabia have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care – the first evidence of such transmission within a hospital, the World Health Organization said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Socialist leader Nicolas Maduro and the billionaire boss of Venezuela’s biggest private company have buried the hatchet after a war of words over food shortages and other economic problems in the South American nation.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A rash of scandals discrediting the U.S. military’s efforts to stamp out sexual assault is putting unprecedented pressure on Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to consider options that once appeared off limits to address sex crimes in the armed forces.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A wave of immigrants is set to become the principal driver of U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said today there would be “consequences” for Sri Lanka if its leaders did not address international concerns over human rights abuses, ahead of a Commonwealth summit scheduled to be held in Colombo in November.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday he did not make the controversial decision to secretly seize telephone records of the Associated Press but defended his department’s actions in the investigation of what he called a “very, very serious leak.”
(Reuters) – U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for overseas lobbying that promotes controversial biotech crops developed by U.S.-based
ABUJA, (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states yesterday, ordering in more troops to try to stem an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency.’
ABUJA, (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states today, ordering in more troops to try to stem an increasingly violent Islamist insurgency.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top food producer, Empresas Polar, yesterday challenged the country’s socialist government to boost output of basic staples and ease nagging product shortages, rejecting accusations it is hoarding products to destabilize the economy.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Associated Press said yesterday the U.S. government secretly seized telephone records of AP offices and reporters for a two-month period in 2012, describing the acts as a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into news-gathering operations.
PHILADELPHIA, (Reuters) – A Philadelphia doctor was found guilty yesterday of murdering three babies during abortions at a clinic serving low-income women in a case that cast a national spotlight on the controversial practice of late-term abortions.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A Guatemalan court ordered the government yesterday to apologize for atrocities committed against indigenous people in the country’s civil war after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday called the targeting of conservative groups by U.S.
(Reuters) – Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd pleaded guilty yesterday to felony charges related to drug safety and will pay $500 million in civil and criminal fines under the settlement agreement with the U.S.
MILAN, (Reuters) – An Italian prosecutor is seeking a six-year jail sentence for former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly having sex with an underage nightclub dancer during notorious ‘bunga bunga’ parties at his villa outside Milan.
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