1st full day of deliberations begins in Boston bombing trial
BOSTON (AP) — Jurors began their first full day of deliberations Thursday to decide whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev deserves life in prison or the death penalty.
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Lawmakers slash Amtrak funding hours after crash
Just because the accident struck close to home does not mean Congress will increase an already shrunken budget for transportation.
Ex-CIA official: America no safer than four years ago
Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell tells Yahoo News that Americans are less safe from terrorism than they were when President Barack Obama won reelection in 2012.
Penalty phase of Boston bombing trial heads to jury
Closing arguments are set for today in the federal trial of admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
U.S. charges Perella Weinberg banker, father for insider trading
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. authorities brought criminal charges on Thursday against an investment banker at Perella Weinberg Partners and his father for allegedly engaging in insider trading ahead of five healthcare mergers. Sean Stewart, who previously worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co, tipped off Robert Stewart, his father, about the mergers, enabling him and a business associate to make $1.16 million, according to a criminal complaint
U.S. class action asserts India's Ranbaxy manipulated FDA rules
Indian generic drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has been sued in a district court in the United States for allegedly manipulating U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules for years to keep rival generic drugs out of the market. Ranbaxy filed “grossly inadequate” applications seeking approval for its drugs and deceived the FDA into granting approvals and giving the company market exclusivity, the class action lawsuit asserts. It was filed by U.S.
U.N. picture book warns 100 million child farm workers of pesticides
By Chris Arsenault ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new picture book aims to help show the nearly 100 million children who labor on farms how best to handle the toxic pesticides many are exposed to in their work. “The colorful illustrations are built on local knowledge and refer to very concrete and real situations,” Food and Agriculture Organization official Christine Fuell said in a statement. “They also appeal to
USDA develops new government label for GMO-free products
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department has developed a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients.
For 10 points: What is the meaning of 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'?
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) – Is the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” a rebellious anthem to wild drug-taking or a touching tribute to a child’s imagination? The question, which has exercised Beatles fans since the song appeared in the seminal 1967 album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, could soon form part of an exam curriculum for British teenagers. Exam board AQA, which sets and marks
This Fast Food Worker’s Thoughtful Act Of Kindness Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity
“If everybody in the world would just use the little simple gift that they have to benefit somebody else, just think what the world would be like.”