U.S. News Headlines

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A pretrial hearing for five prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks was halted on Monday so technicians could tinker with courtroom microphones to prevent eavesdropping on confidential attorney-client conversations. The war crimes court at the Guantanamo Bay …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass./NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Northeast was digging out on Sunday after a blizzard dumped up to 40 inches (one meter) of snow with hurricane force winds, killing at least nine people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. As the Northeast cleared roads and shoveled out, another storm bore down …

(Reuters) - Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday in the federal public corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is accused of running a decade-long criminal enterprise out of his office to enrich himself, his family and friends. Voters hoped Kilpatrick would reverse decades of decline in Detroit …

ARLINGTON, Texas (Reuters) - Thousands of people are expected to gather at Cowboys Stadium on Monday to remember former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who was killed at a shooting range by an Iraq War veteran he tried to help. Kyle, 38, was considered the deadliest sniper in American military history. He served four combat …

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A Nevada state lawmaker briefly jailed last month on suspicion of leveling a death threat against the speaker of the state Assembly was arrested on Sunday after police claimed he attacked a member of his family. Democratic Assemblyman Steven Brooks, 40, was taken into custody outside his Las Vegas …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A record $1 million reward was posted on Sunday for information leading to the capture of a fugitive former Los Angeles policeman suspected of targeting police officers and their families in three killings committed in retaliation for his 2008 firing. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck …

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans police on Sunday were investigating a shooting that wounded four people outside a Bourbon Street nightclub in the French Quarter as crowds gathered for the city's annual Mardi Gras celebrations. One man was in guarded condition after being shot in the abdomen, upper thigh and pelvic area …

HARRISBURG, Penn. (Reuters) - Family members of the late Penn State University football coach Joe Paterno on Sunday released a report they commissioned that said that a former FBI director's finding that Paterno helped cover up a child sex abuse scandal was flawed and unfair. ...

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A simulated wave of Caribbean migrants sailed to the Guantanamo naval base this week for a training drill designed to prepare U.S. troops and security agencies who might someday have to handle the real thing. The exercise is held every two years to prepare for a potential …

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona (Reuters) - Action film star Steven Seagal, who racks up big body counts in his on-screen battles with bad guys, took on a new role on Saturday, training posse volunteers for controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio in how to use guns to protect schools in shooting incidents. Arpaio, who styles himself …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thou shalt compromise, at least on immigration reform. That is the message being heard from some leading evangelicals in the United States. After decades of promoting traditionally conservative causes like opposition to abortion, many evangelical leaders are now wielding their formidable influence …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top U.S. Republican lawmaker said on Sunday he would support granting citizenship to children who are in the country illegally in a sign that conservatives who oppose immigration amnesty will be playing defense as Congress takes on immigration reform in the coming months. Representative Eric Cantor, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's pick to be U.S. treasury secretary, is expected to come under fire for the administration's budget policies and a nearly $1 million bonus he received from bailed-out bank Citigroup when he testifies on Wednesday before a Senate panel vetting him for the job. The …

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans police on Sunday investigating a shooting that wounded four people on the city's famed Bourbon Street as crowds gathered for the city's annual Mardi Gras celebrations. One man was in guarded condition after being shot in the abdomen, upper thigh and pelvic area Saturday night, police …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass./NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Northeast started digging out on Sunday after a blizzard dumped up to 40 inches (1 meter) of snow with hurricane force winds, killing at least nine people and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. New York City trucks plowed through residential streets, piling snow even higher …

(Reuters) - Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has proposed a fix for his state's poorly funded public pension systems, but some say his medicine could be worse than the illness. Corbett's plan, presented as part of his fiscal 2014 budget, would add another $5 billion to the state's $41 billion-and-growing unfunded liability, …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A record $1 million reward was posted on Sunday for information leading to the capture of a fugitive former Los Angeles cop suspected of targeting police officers and their families in three killings committed in retaliation for his 2008 firing. Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said …

RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE, Germany (Reuters) - The Pentagon will have to cut the size of U.S. military forces for the second time in as many years if across-the-board spending reductions of $470 billion over 10 years take effect March 1, the top U.S. military officer said on Saturday. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the …