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| U.S. slavery reparations sought in first Black Lives Matter agenda | | | The groups aim to halt the "increasingly visible violence against Black communities," the Movement for Black Lives said in a statement. The agenda was released days before the second anniversary of the slaying of unarmed black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's death, along with other fatal police shootings of unarmed black men over the past two years, fuelled a national debate about racial discrimination in the U.S. criminal justice system. |
| Tighter oversight of balloon operators urged after Texas crash | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Federal regulation of hot air balloon operators needs to be more in line with oversight of the airline industry, a U.S. safety official said on Monday during a briefing on a crash in Texas that ranked as the worst in North American ballooning history. The balloon, flown by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides chief pilot and owner Alfred "Skip" Nichols, hit a power line and plummeted in flames into a pasture near Lockhart, about 30 miles (50 km) south of the state capital Austin. At Monday's briefing, Robert Sumwalt, who is heading the investigation for the National Transportation Safety Board, said that unlike airplane and helicopter pilots, balloon pilots are not required to apply for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) medical certificates.
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| If the pope can retire, why can't Japan's elderly emperor? | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI did it. Dutch Queen Beatrix did it. Public broadcaster NHK reported last month that Emperor Akihito, 82, wanted to abdicate "in a few years", something unprecedented in modern Japan.
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| U.S. weighs dangers, benefits of naming Russia in cyber hack | | | By Warren Strobel and John Walcott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wary of a global confrontation with Russia, U.S. President Barack Obama must carefully weigh how to respond to what security experts believe was Moscow's involvement in the hacking of Democratic Party organizations, U.S. officials said. Publicly blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin's intelligence services would bring instant pressure on Washington to divulge its evidence, which relies on highly classified sources and methods, U.S. intelligence officials said. |
| No ransom paid or shots fired in Brazil kidnap rescue - governor | |  By Andrew Downie SAO PAULO (Reuters) - No ransom was paid and no shots were fired to free the kidnapped mother-in-law of Formula One empresario Bernie Ecclestone, the governor of Sao Paulo state said on Monday, a day after the 67-year old was freed in a police raid. Aparecida Schunk was rescued on Sunday evening nine days after being seized at her home. The leader of the kidnap gang, who local newspapers said wanted 120 million reais ($36.5 million) in ransom, was a pilot who had worked for Ecclestone's family, according to news magazine Veja.
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| U.S. indicts ex-Venezuelan anti-narcotics agency leaders on drug charges | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors announced an indictment on Monday against two former top officials at Venezuela's anti-narcotics agency, including one who became the head of the country's national guard, over allegations that they took part in a cocaine distribution scheme. The indictment, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, charged Nestor Reverol, the ex-general director of the anti-narcotics agency and onetime commander of Venezuela's National Guard, and Edylberto Molina, a former sub-director of the drug agency who later became a Venezuelan military attaché posted in Germany.
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| Bergdahl's lawyers ask for charges to be dropped over McCain comments | |  (Reuters) - The legal team for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl on Monday asked to have the charges against the former prisoner of war dismissed, arguing comments made by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain violated his due process rights. Defence attorneys argued in a motion filed on Monday that comments made by McCain and the committee's general counsel, Steve Barney, have unduly influenced his case. The filing quotes McCain as saying last October: "If it comes out that (Bergdahl has no punishment, we're going to have a hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee." "I am not prejudging, OK, but it is well known that in the searches for Bergdahl, after - we know now - he deserted, there are allegations that some American soldiers were killed or wounded, or at the very least put their lives in danger, searching for what is clearly a deserter," McCain added.
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| Former L.A. county sheriff withdraws guilty plea in corruption probe | |  By Phoenix Tso LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Monday withdrew his guilty plea to a charge of lying to investigators, opting instead to face trial in a corruption case that clouded his final years as chief custodian of the nation's largest jail system. Both prosecutors and defence lawyers have cited Baca's recent Alzheimer's disease diagnosis in their reasoning for a seeking a relatively light sentence. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson gave Baca and prosecutors time during a court recess on Monday to negotiate an alternative he might find acceptable, but the two sides failed to come to terms during three hours of talks.
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| U.S. general seeks to soothe Turkey ties strained by coup purge | |  By Nick Tattersall and Gareth Jones ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - America's highest-ranking military officer sought on Monday to soothe strained ties with NATO ally Turkey, which was angered by the West's response to a failed military coup and an apparent U.S. reluctance to hand over the cleric it says was responsible. The fallout from the abortive coup on July 15, in which more than 230 people died as mutinous soldiers commandeered fighter jets, helicopters and tanks, has deepened a rift between Ankara and its Western allies. President Tayyip Erdogan and many Turks have been frustrated by U.S. and European criticism of a government crackdown in the aftermath of the attempted putsch in a country vital to the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State and to stopping illegal migration to Europe.
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| Criminal investigation underway into 2015 Colorado mine spill | |  By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - Federal investigators said on Monday they have opened a criminal probe into the 2015 spill of some 3 million gallons (11 million litres) of toxic wastewater from a defunct Colorado gold mine that was triggered by a contractor with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the urging of congressional leaders, the EPA's Office of Inspector General is investigating the rupture from the Gold King Mine above Silverton, Colorado, that fouled waterways in three states and Native American lands, the agency said in a statement. "Based on requests from several members of the House and Senate, the OIG is conducting both a programme evaluation and a criminal investigation of the Gold King Mine spill," the EPA said in a statement.
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| U.S. judge questions North Carolina transgender bathroom law | |  By Colleen Jenkins WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A U.S. judge weighing whether to halt a North Carolina law that restricts bathroom access for transgender people in government buildings and public schools questioned at a hearing on Monday what problem the measure fixed and how it would make restrooms safer. Republican lawmakers cited privacy and security concerns when North Carolina in March became the first U.S. state to require transgender people to use single-sex government-owned public restrooms and changing facilities that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate. During a hearing in which he heard arguments over whether to grant a court order to block the law while litigation over its legality continues, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, sounded sceptical about the law's intent and logistics.
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| Trump campaign asks Capitol Hill for support in Khan controversy | |  By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support on Monday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members. Trump's criticism of Khizr Khan and Ghazala Khan, who took the stage at last week's Democratic convention, sparked growing concern and dismay from Republican lawmakers responding to the latest Trump outburst to blindside his party colleagues. Republican Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the most prominent veteran in Congress, along with the commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, joined the chorus of condemnation, reflecting the highly regarded place the military and its veterans hold with many in the United States.
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| Texas allows guns in college classrooms under new law | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A new law went into effect in Texas on Monday that allows certain students to bring guns into classrooms, with supporters saying it could prevent mass shootings and critics saying the measure will endanger safety on campuses. The so-called state "campus carry" law allows people 21 and older with a concealed handgun license to carry pistols in classrooms and most buildings throughout public universities, including the University of Texas system, one of the nation's largest with an enrolment of more than 214,000 students. The law took effect as the university held a memorial to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the deadliest U.S. gun incidents on a college campus.
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| University of Texas holds first memorial of 1966 rampage that left 16 dead | |  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The University of Texas on Monday held its first memorial of a shooting rampage half a century ago that left 16 people dead, with a survivor of the massacre leading a procession across the field where she was hit by the sniper and her unborn child was killed. Claire Wilson James walked past the spot where, at age 18, she spent nearly 90 minutes on the pavement in the hot sun next to her slain boyfriend on Aug. 1, 1966. The Texas tower shooting - so-named because the gunman fired from the university's clock tower - is regarded as the first U.S. mass shooting in a public space and sent shockwaves across the country.
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| Lawsuit filed over videotaped police beating in San Francisco | | | A man whose beating by two San Francisco-area sheriff's deputies was caught on videotape filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the officers, claiming that after the assault officers stole his gold chain and took a "trophy" photo of him. The lawsuit and authorities said Stanislav Petrov fled officers in what was believed to be a suspected stolen car on the night of Nov. 12, 2015. After a high-speed chase across the Bay Bridge, Petrov got out of the car and fled from Alameda County Sheriff Deputies Paul Wieber and Luis Santamaria in a San Francisco alleyway when he was tackled to the ground. |
| U.S. wins ownership of rare 'double eagle' gold coins | | | A federal appeals court on Monday said a cache of exceptionally rare gold coins stolen from the U.S. Mint in the 1930s belongs to the U.S. government, not the Pennsylvania family that possessed it for decades. By a 9-3 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Joan Langbord and her sons Roy and David cannot keep the 10 "double eagle" 1933 $20 gold pieces, estimated to be worth several million dollars each. |
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