  | | | | | SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A California fugitive suspected of kidnapping a teenage girl after killing her mother and possibly her brother eluded detection for a fourth day on Thursday and may have booby-trapped his getaway car or a hideout with explosives, police said. | | |  | | | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Firefighters gained ground against a wind-whipped California wildfire that has destroyed 15 buildings, injured at least five people and forced the evacuation of 500 homes in several small communities east of Los Angeles. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Two of three winners of a $448 million Powerball lottery jackpot, who bought their lucky tickets in New Jersey, have still not stepped forward, lottery officials said Friday. | | | |  | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama quietly met with the CEOs of Apple Inc, AT&T Inc as well as other technology and privacy representatives on Thursday to discuss government surveillance, according to a media report. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - The National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent of its system administrators to reduce the number of people with access to secret information. | | | | | | | OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - A fireworks vendor from Washington state is accused of strapping a homemade bomb to a dog's neck and detonating it and will face animal cruelty and explosives charges, prosecutors said on Thursday. | | | |  | | | | | JACKSON, Mississippi (Reuters) - Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is being treated in a Mississippi hospital for a ruptured appendix, a former aide said on Thursday. | | | | | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday closed their inquiry into the whereabouts of the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, a police spokesman said. | | |  | | | | | DALLAS (Reuters) - A former Texas special education teacher, described by a colleague as a "gentle giant," fatally shot four people including his estranged wife and current girlfriend, in a spasm of apparent domestic violence, police said on Thursday. | | | |  | | | | | Tallahassee, Florida (Reuters) - Declaring that "there is no shame in searching for the truth," Florida's cabinet agreed on Tuesday to permit bodies to be exhumed at an infamous former boys reform school, to identify dozens of children buried and forgotten in woodlands decades ago. | | | | |  |  | | | 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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