  | | | | | ORLANDO (Reuters) - More than a million homeowners living in older houses along the coastlines and riverbanks of the United States are being jolted by federal flood insurance rate hikes under a law passed in the wake of devastating storms. | | | | | | WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Police at North Carolina Central University shot and killed a gunman in an incident that prompted a three-hour lockdown at the school, university officials and a local television station said on Tuesday. | | | |  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama says he quit smoking for a reason that many husbands can relate to: "I'm scared of my wife." | | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City man has been charged with endangering the welfare of a 3-year-old girl who died while she was trapped inside his sofa bed, police said Tuesday. | | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Columbia University professor who wears a beard and turban in keeping with his Sikh religion was savagely beaten by teen attackers who shouted anti-Muslim taunts in what police described as a possible hate crime. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - Burger King Worldwide Inc, known for its "Whopper" hamburgers, is introducing lower-fat French fries, as consumer groups in the United States increase pressure on the food industry to offer healthier alternatives. | | | | | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - Voters in Boston head to the polls on Tuesday to choose among a dozen candidates for mayor in a preliminary round of voting in the city's most wide-open mayoral election in decades. | | | |  | | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two men were charged in connection with a shooting in Chicago last week that injured 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy, but neither are believed to have been the gunman, Chicago police said on Monday. | | | | | | OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A 4-year-old Cherokee girl known as "Baby Veronica," who is at the center of a cross-country custody battle, was handed back to her adoptive non-Native American family on Monday, Cherokee Nation officials told Reuters. | | | |  | | | | | DENVER (Reuters) - Search teams in flood-ravaged parts of Colorado have accounted for all but a half dozen people, down from hundreds reported missing nearly two weeks ago, and officials said on Monday that a man earlier presumed killed in the disaster has turned up alive and well. | | | | |  |  | | | 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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