  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two major public health initiatives pushed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a ban on the sale of large sugary drinks and a plan to encourage breast-feeding, are opposed by a majority of city voters, a Quinnipiac poll said on Thursday. | | |  | | | | | SALMON, Idaho/CLE ELUM, Washington (Reuters) - Wildfires roared out of control across the sun-scorched U.S. West on Wednesday and threatened to engulf two small towns in Idaho as firefighters managed to partially dampen a monster blaze that has destroyed more than 60 homes in Washington state. | | | |  | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A gunman shot and wounded a guard on Wednesday at the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobbying group, and he was taken into FBI custody, authorities said. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - When Wendy Kopp, just out of Princeton, founded Teach for America in 1989, she dreamed of recruiting 500 elite college graduates to teach the nation's neediest children. "My dear Miss Kopp," a college advisor told her, "you are quite evidently deranged." | | | | | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In the age of Facebook and Twitter, a new crime has hit America: "Sharpie parties," gatherings of party revelers armed with "Sharpie" magic markers and lured by social media invitations to wreak havoc on foreclosed homes. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - A single ticket sold in Michigan matched all five numbers and the red "Powerball" to win the $320 million Powerball lottery jackpot, the 10th largest prize in U.S. history, lottery officials said on Thursday. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania judge handed Democrats a setback on Wednesday when he upheld the election battleground state's controversial voter identification law, which civil rights groups argued discriminates against minority voters. | | | | | | | MIAMI/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Marlon Morraz, 19, an undocumented immigrant from Nicaragua, wasted no time in signing up for temporary legal status in the United States under the Obama administration's relaxed deportation rules that took effect on Wednesday. | | | | | | DENVER (Reuters) - A high-pressure burst of natural gas at a well operated by Canadian energy giant Encana Corporation in Colorado killed one man and injured three other workers on Wednesday, the company and local authorities said. | | | | | | | SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (Reuters) - Several thousand Illinois state workers protesting proposed cuts in government pension and benefit plans heckled Democratic Governor Pat Quinn at a state fair speech on Wednesday. | | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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