WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. religious leaders on Tuesday condemned an "anti-Muslim frenzy" in the United States, including plans by a Florida church to burn a Koran on September 11, an act a top general said could endanger American troops abroad.
Christian, Muslim and Jewish religious ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announced on Tuesday he would not run for re-election, ending a political dynasty in which a Daley has reigned over the nation's third-largest city for much of the past half century.
Daley's decision not to seek a seventh term in February leaves ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite Obama administration warnings it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth rejected the Obama ...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Civil and military leaders stepped up calls on Tuesday for an obscure U.S. pastor to drop his plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, as fears grew it would fan religious hatred.
Pastor Terry Jones of the small Gainesville, Florida-based ...
Hermine's path kept it away from major oil and gas installations in the Gulf of Mexico, and refineries in Texas were unaffected by the passage of the storm, operators said.
The storm was expected to weaken during the next 48 hours and become a tropical depression later Tuesday.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Reuters) - Court proceedings for a Colorado couple accused of abusing three girls adopted from Russia were postponed on Tuesday after a defense lawyer told a judge that plea negotiations were under way.
Edelwina Leschinsky, 44, and her husband Steven Leschinsky, 43, were ...
Governor Jodi Rell, who will leave office next January, proposed establishing a defined contribution plan for new state workers, increasing the retirement age to 65 from 62 and the early retirement age to 60 from 55 and raising the employee contribution.
Rell, a Republican, also proposed that in ...
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - An Alabama judge said on Tuesday he would appoint a receiver to oversee the sewer system revenues of debt-ridden Jefferson County, in a setback for county authorities.
The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee for the county's creditor banks, won its request for the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. Appeals Court on Tuesday declined to consider a deeper legal review of patent settlements by drug companies that pay rivals to delay production of generic drugs, setting the stage for the Supreme Court or Congress to address the matter.
On April 29, a three-judge panel ...
The New York State Division of Parole turned down Mark David Chapman's request, citing concerns "about the disregard you displayed for the norms of our society and the sanctity of human life," according to a report by CNN.
The three-member parole board panel concluded in written comments ...
