Obama to Clyburn: Charleston victims 'are my people'
Rep. James Clyburn recalls an anguished call with President Obama the day after the tragedy.
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Obama scolds heckler at gay pride event: 'You're in my house'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama took on a heckler head-on at a gay pride month reception at the White House Wednesday, scolding the protester for being disrespectful in “my house.”
Supreme Court upholds key Obamacare insurance subsidies
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Barack Obama a major victory on Thursday by upholding tax subsidies crucial to his signature healthcare law, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying Congress clearly intended for them to be available in all 50 states. The court ruled on a 6-3 vote that the 2010 Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, did not restrict the subsidies to
NY prison guard charged with giving tools to escapees for art
A corrections officer was due in court on Thursday as the second person charged with helping two murderers escape an upstate New York prison, accused of passing them tools hidden in frozen hamburger in exchange for artwork, court documents said. Guard Gene Palmer, 57, who was suspended with pay from Clinton Correctional Facility, was freed after posting $25,000 cash bail early on Thursday, the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department said. Law
Mayor faces complexities of poverty, crime in reviving N.J.'s largest city
A handful of streets in New Jersey’s largest city boast glistening apartment towers with floor-to-ceiling views of the Manhattan skyline, but much of the rest of Newark bears the scars of stubbornly high crime rates and persistent poverty. The complexities of life in Newark are reflected in graffiti, boarded-up houses and shattered car windows, stark reminders for Mayor Ras Baraka of the challenges he faces to attract people and investment
Tsarnaev: 'I am sorry for the lives I have taken'
The Boston Marathon bomber speaks publicly for the first time since the 2013 attack.
Eli Lilly wins UK Alimta drug patent case on appeal, shares jump
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Eli Lilly has won a patent case in the Court of Appeal in London over its blockbuster Alimta lung cancer drug, boosting prospects for future sales and dealing a blow to generic challenger Actavis, now renamed Allergan. Alimta generated worldwide sales of $2.79 billion for Lilly last year, making the medicine its biggest-selling product. The verdict, which reverses a 2014 decision by the English
Judge blocks Kansas' ban on 2nd-trimester abortion procedure
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge on Thursday blocked the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on an abortion procedure that opponents refer to as “dismemberment abortion.”
As Karachi scorches, deaths linked to power and water cuts, fasting
By Aamir Saeed ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sabir Majeed, 59, had been fasting for Ramadan amid Karachi’s 45-degree Celsius heat wave when he became dehydrated and fainted Monday afternoon. It was already packed with heatstroke patients and when a doctor came to see him after 30 to 40 minutes, he was pronounced dead,” said his wailing wife Shabana Majeed, a resident of Karachi’s Orangi Town, a largely poor district.
U.S. Supreme Court upholds key Obamacare insurance subsidies
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Barack Obama a major victory on Thursday by upholding tax subsidies crucial to his signature healthcare law, with Chief Justice John Roberts saying Congress clearly intended for them to be available in all 50 states. The court ruled on a 6-3 vote that the 2010 Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, did not restrict the subsidies to