  | | | | | (Reuters) - Safeguards to ensure that U.S. surveillance measures are not abused have worked but must be improved as technology advances, President Barack Obama said in an interview with CNN that aired on Friday. | | |  | | | | | TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - Closing arguments are expected on Friday in the sentencing hearing that will determine the fate of a decorated U.S. soldier who gunned down 16 unarmed Afghan civilians in a pre-dawn rampage last year. | | | |  | | | | | FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Jurors were set to resume deliberations on Friday in the court-martial of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, the psychiatrist who has admitted shooting dead 13 people and wounding 31 in a rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - A New York-based Goldman Sachs managing director was arrested and charged with raping a 20-year-old woman while on vacation in the up-market Hamptons resort in New York state. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - A Las Vegas couple has been arrested for allegedly plotting to capture and kill a police officer, and authorities say they were part of the anti-government "sovereign citizen" movement, a television station reported. | | | |  | | | | | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Firefighters struggling in rough terrain lost ground against a raging wildfire that on Thursday had reached the western edge of Yosemite National Park in California, one of America's premier outdoor destinations, the U.S. Forest Service said. | | | | | | | DALLAS (Reuters) - A former paramedic who responded to a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant in April, only to be charged weeks later with unlawful possession of pipe bomb components, was released from a county jail on Thursday. | | | |  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eliot Spitzer, trying to rebound from a sex scandal that cost him the New York governorship, promised to work for a dollar a year while his opponent tried to sing a chorus from David Bowie's "Heroes" as part of Wednesday's debate between the two Democratic candidates for New York City's comptroller. | | |  | | | | | SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - U.S. wildfire managers facing increasingly strained resources have opened talks with Pentagon commanders and Canadian officials about possible reinforcements of personnel and aircraft to battle dozens of blazes raging across the drought-parched American West. | | | |  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fifty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, nearly half of those who responded to a new poll said a lot more needs to be done before people in the United States would "be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." | | | | |  |  | | | 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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