U.S. News Headlines

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said in a newly disclosed email she sent just days after taking office in 2006 that she felt her circle of trusted advisors was "shrinking daily."

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas executed a Mexican national on Thursday over objections from President Barack

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A third person has died as a result of a weekend shooting rampage in Pennsylvania that has been described as a possible revenge killing.

(Reuters) - Hackers broke into the Washington Post Co's jobs website in two incidents last month, affecting more than a million user IDs and emails, the company said on its website.

BOZEMAN, Mont (Reuters) - Montana's governor withdrew his state on Thursday from participation in a joint command team directing the cleanup of oil spilled from a burst Exxon Mobil pipeline, saying citizens "can't get straight answers" from the company.

WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood asked a federal court on Thursday to block enforcement of part of North Carolina's budget that bars extending state funds to the women's health provider because it performs abortions.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A bystander who witnessed the run-up to a fatal police shooting in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina told a New Orleans court on Thursday that he watched from a motel balcony as a gunman fired a rifle at an unarmed man.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - A legal battle over the fate of 10 double eagle gold coins from the Franklin Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s started with the government saying the coins, now worth an estimated $75 million, were wrongly taken from a U.S. mint.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Regardless of the outcome of the sexual assault charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the case could discourage victims from coming forward, women's rights advocates say.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Two men charged with plotting to attack a military building in Seattle with machine guns pleaded not guilty to nine criminal charges in Seattle federal court on Thursday after being indicted by a grand jury.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The group that manages New York's airports is studying proposals to expand them after a warning that failure to keep up with increasing air travel demand could hurt the region's economy.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey on Thursday unveiled reforms to crack down on steroid abuse by police, including random drug testing.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Two men charged with plotting to attack a military building in Seattle with machine guns have been indicted by a federal grand jury on nine criminal counts. They are to be arraigned at a hearing in Seattle federal court later on Thursday.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texas executed a Mexican national on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to act on concerns raised by the Obama administration regarding international treaty violations.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to lay off 144 carpenters, electricians and laborers, ruling that it is not the judiciary's role to make such staffing decisions.

NOGALES, Ariz (Reuters) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday rolled out the Obama administration's 2011 strategy to curb drug smuggling on the Mexico border, combining measures to tighten security with efforts to reduce demand for narcotics.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Now that Casey Anthony has been found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee, she faces a civil lawsuit from a woman who says Anthony falsely accused her of kidnapping the girl.

NOGALES, Ariz (Reuters) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday rolled out the Obama administration's 2011 strategy to curb drug smuggling on the Mexico border, pledging to boost intelligence sharing and technology to tighten security.