Baltimore has reached a tentative $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, a black man who died from an injury sustained in police custody, city officials said on Tuesday. The settlement with his family will be submitted to the Baltimore Board of Estimates for a vote on Wednesday, the office of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement, adding that it does not constitute an admission of liability.
By Todd Melby BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (Reuters) – The Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwean lion Cecil, sparking a global outcry from animal lovers, returned to work on Tuesday at his suburban Minneapolis office to shouts of “murderer” and “leave town” from a half dozen protesters. Walter Palmer, 55, did not speak to reporters as he entered his Bloomington, Minnesota, dental practice.
In many states, Planned Parenthood is losing clients as newly insured patients turn to medical providers included in their health plan’s networks, according to data provided to Reuters and interviews with more than two dozen of its affiliates. “Some people relied on us because they were uninsured prior to the Affordable Care Act. Now they can go anywhere for care, and some of them have been,” said Lori Carpentier, president
NEW YORK (AP) — The West Indian Day Parade, a rollicking, colorful celebration of Caribbean culture, music, style and food, rolled through New York City’s streets Monday but, once again, was marred by predawn violence that left one man dead and an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in critical condition.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton will propose a slate of campaign finance reform measures on Tuesday aimed at limiting political donations by corporations and large donors and increasing transparency in election spending. Clinton, who is seeking the nomination to be the Democratic candidate in the November 2016 presidential election, identified measures she would pursue if she becomes president. Among them are rules requiring greater disclosure of political spending including by
The vice president hears supportive chants at a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh.
Ohio State is better than it was a year ago. As crazy as that seems, the defending national champions took the field for their season opener against Virginia Tech on Monday and left with a dominating 42-24 victory.
Acen and Apio Akello of Uganda, who had been joined at the pelvic and hip region, were successfully separated on Thursday, Nationwide Children’s Hospital said. Three-dimensional modeling was used to help the neurosurgeons divide their intertwined spinal cords, said Dr. Gail Besner, chief of pediatric surgery at the hospital. The sisters are the fourth set of conjoined twins the hospital has separated successfully since 1978, it said.
General Electric won U.S. and European antitrust approval to buy Alstom’s power unit on condition that some of the French company’s assets would be sold. Both the U.S. Justice Department and European Union announced on Tuesday that they would approve the 12.4-billion-euro ($13.9 billion) deal on condition that Alstom subsidiary Power Systems Manufacturing would be divested. The unit, which provides aftermarket parts and services for gas turbines, will be sold
Canada’s Concordia Healthcare Corp said it would buy Amdipharm Mercury Ltd from private equity firm Cinven for $1.9 billion, boosting its portfolio of drugs to 200 from 20 and giving it a foothold in overseas markets. Amdipharm Mercury, created with the merger of Mercury Pharma and Amdipharm in 2012, buys off-patent drugs from big pharma companies such as Novartis AG , GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Abbott Laboratories and sells them in