Holmes verdict offers some relief to families
Three years after 12 died and 70 were injured in a Colorado movie theater, James Holmes is found guilty.
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Chattanooga shooting suspect's Mideast travel being probed
By Rich McKay CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are investigating trips that the suspect in the fatal shootings of four Marines in Tennessee took to the Middle East, including at least one to Jordan and a possible visit to Yemen, a source close to the probe said on Friday. Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, identified as the shooter by the FBI, was shot to death in a rampage on Thursday
Utah police find girl, 12, dead in field; say likely homicide
The West Valley City Police Department said the girl’s mother approached two officers at a 7-Eleven store at 1:30 a.m. and told them her daughter had been missing since midnight. “Evidence of trauma and indicators at scene suggest 12-year-old girl’s death is homicide,” it said. West Valley City is a western suburb of Salt Lake City.
A year after Ferguson, U.S. civil rights groups gather pace
By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) – Taurean Russell was preparing to coach high school football in St. Louis last Aug. 9 when his Twitter feed began flashing images of a black teenager lying facedown on the street of a nearby suburb, shot dead by police. Within hours came photos of the dead 18-year-old’s stepfather, stony-faced, holding a cardboard sign that read: “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!”
'Mockingbird's' Scout: What Gregory Peck would think of new Atticus Finch
Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman,” the long-awaited follow-up to her 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” hit bookshelves shortly after midnight on Tuesday…
Your questions on Iran nuke deal answered
Katie Couric and guests break down what the historic accord means for the U.S. and the world.
The lost Gerald Ford portrait: An art mystery
How did a painting Time magazine commissioned in 1974 end up in a cluttered coat closet 40 years later?
Dozens flee homes as wildfires rage in Greece, PM urges calm
By Yannis Behrakis ATHENS (Reuters) – Forest fires fanned by strong winds and high temperatures broke out around Athens and in other parts of southern Greece on Friday, sending residents fleeing as clouds of smoke billowed over their homes. The wildfires created a new problem for the government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, which is struggling to obtain a fresh bailout from foreign creditors. The police said 34 separate fires
Overwhelming majority of U.S. women don't regret abortion: study
By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 95 percent of women surveyed in a new U.S. study said they didn’t regret having an abortion and felt that the procedure was the right decision for them. “Women overwhelmingly felt abortion was the right decision in both the short-term and over three years, and the intensity of emotions and frequency of thinking about the abortion declined over time,”
Did the U.N. financing for development conference deliver?
By Katy Migiro ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major United Nations summit to finance ambitious global development goals, from giving free education to all to dealing with climate change, fell short of developing countries’ expectations with few aid pledges. After three days of negotiations in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, world leaders this week agreed a broad framework for funding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), due to be