LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California Highway Patrol report released on Wednesday in a sensational "runaway" Toyota Prius incident appears to support the version of events given by the driver, which the automaker has called into question.
The written account by a CHP officer who raced to ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Residents of Fargo, North Dakota, rushed on Wednesday to protect their city from the rising Red River which is expected to reach near-record flood levels this weekend.
The Red River reached 31 feet at Fargo, the biggest city in the Red River Valley straddling North Dakota and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to be cautious about imposing strict rules on how and whether law enforcement officials can interrogate terrorism suspects they detain.
Some Republican lawmakers have questioned whether critical information was lost ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Gay rights activists are renewing their fight to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, hoping a mix of moneyed supporters and celebrity star power will tilt the scales in their favor.
A group called Fight Back New York, created with money from software entrepreneur and ...
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - A message to all those confident young American women from pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem: For all the advances in women's rights in the past 40 years, equality remains a distant hope.
As she turns 76 next week, the woman who walked the front lines of ...
Phoebe Yang, general counsel of the FCC's broadband task force, said on Wednesday that the FCC will launch more than 40 FCC proceedings -- such as rule-making proposals and notices of inquiry -- in the next year to 18 months.
"Some of those are already being planned and are underway," ...
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Canada and the United States have adopted a unified warning system to better advise skiers and snowmobilers about the avalanche danger, Canadian officials said on Wednesday.
Canada unveiled the new warning system just days after a big snow slide slammed into a snowmobile ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. grand jury formalized criminal charges on Wednesday against two former computer programmers at swindler Bernard Madoff's firm, alleging they conspired with others to falsify investor records using a special program.
The two men, Jerome O'Hara, 47, and George Perez, 44, ...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Muslim activists launched a campaign on Wednesday against a series of educational books that they say promote anti-Islamic sentiment among U.S. school children.
"The World of Islam," a 10-book series, encourages young readers to believe Muslims are terrorists and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. gasoline prices head toward $3 a gallon, states with many drivers in rural areas would take the biggest financial hit if pump costs spiked to record levels again, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
Consumers in all states are dependent on oil for their ...
