  | | | | | SANTA ROSA, California (Reuters) - No more than 10 seconds elapsed from the time sheriff's deputies spotted a 13-year-old California boy carrying what they thought was an assault rifle and the moment they shot him dead, only to learn afterward the gun was a plastic replica, police said on Thursday. | | | | | | WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Five people were injured late Thursday, two seriously, when a carnival ride at the North Carolina State Fair suddenly restarted as passengers were exiting their seats after the ride ended, fair and law enforcement officials said. | | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Bratton, a celebrity in the world of U.S. law enforcement, is once again tantalizingly close to the nation's most coveted police job - commissioner of the New York Police Department. | | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - Massive clouds of smoke spewed from U.S. wildfires raging ever more intensely in recent summers send soot, carbon monoxide and other toxins far and wide, posing health hazards for distant communities, scientists warned in a study on Thursday. | | | |  | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic President Barack Obama will take a swipe at austerity-minded Republicans on Friday ahead of a looming budget rematch, urging against the backdrop of a model school that spending, rather than belt-tightening, is key to economic growth. | | | |  | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden gave a series of background interviews on Thursday afternoon but chose an unusually public place to do it - an Amtrak train, according to fellow passenger Tom Matzzie. | | | |  | | | | | NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A member of the National Guard shot and wounded two of his superiors on Thursday at an armory outside a U.S. Navy facility in Millington, Tennessee, authorities said. | | | |  | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Months after the U.S. military was hit with a $37 billion budget cut that threw it into turmoil and confusion, the Pentagon is headed into the new fiscal year facing a similar threat that could have even more devastating consequences, officials say. | | | | | | MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic archbishop of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Archdiocese said on Thursday that serious mistakes had been made in the archdiocese's investigations of allegations of sex abuse by clergy and he has ordered a review of all of its files by an outside firm. | | | |  | | | | | DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit was operating on a "razor's edge" and had no options to avoid running out of cash and filing bankruptcy, the city's top adviser testified on Thursday in a trial to determine whether the city is eligible to file the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. | | | | |  |  | | | 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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