New York imam says no meeting planned with pastor

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:30:04 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The imam behind a proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site said on Friday he has no meeting planned with the Florida pastor who had threatened to burn copies of the Koran.

Four dead in San Francisco suburb gas line inferno

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:41:56 -0400

SAN BRUNO, California (Reuters) - At least four people died after a gas line explosion and fire razed 38 homes in a San Francisco suburb, and officials expected the death toll to rise on Friday as firefighters search the wreckage.

Would-be Wall Street sheriffs strike cautious tone

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:14:23 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - All candidates vying to be the next so-called Sheriff of Wall Street say they will find the bad apples without overturning the applecart in the financial capital's fragile economic recovery.

Judge rules ban on gays in military unconstitutional

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:47:47 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military rule banning openly gay people from serving in the armed forces violates constitutional rights to free speech and due process, a federal judge in southern California ruled Thursday.

New York candidate says an insider can be reformer

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:21:43 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eric Schneiderman's rivals are painting the New York state attorney general candidate as the ultimate insider, a state senator in a corrupt institution who has won the endorsement of some of the state's leading Democrats.

Obama says Koran burning can badly damage U.S. abroad

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:36:58 -0400

WASHINGTON/GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday he hoped a Florida pastor would drop a plan to burn Korans on U.S. soil, saying such an act could deeply harm the United States abroad.

U.S. proposes new rest rules for airline pilots

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:57:56 -0400

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Airlines would be required to give pilots longer rest periods and scale back duty time under a U.S. government proposal on Friday aimed at combating fatigue in the cockpit.

USDA knew of problems at farm behind egg recall: report

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:07:37 -0400

BANGALORE (Reuters) - U.S. Department of Agriculture experts knew about sanitary problems at one of the two Iowa farms at the center of a massive nationwide egg recall, but did not notify health authorities, the Wall Street Journal reported.

New York finally sees progress at Ground Zero site

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:34:09 -0400

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nine years after the September 11 attacks, visible progress is finally being made toward rebuilding the World Trade Center site known as Ground Zero.

Alaska seeks to overturn delay in Arctic drilling

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:08:42 -0400

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The state of Alaska on Thursday filed a petition in federal court to overturn the Obama administration's moratorium on drilling in federal waters of the Arctic, even though Interior Department officials insist that no such formal moratorium exists.