Monday, 2 April 2018

Oklahoma teachers walk off job over pay, shut schools statewide

Oklahoma teachers walk off job over pay, shut schools statewide

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma teachers walked off the job on Monday, closing schools statewide as they demanded salary rises for some of the lowest-paid educators in the United States and more funds for a school system reeling from a decade of budget cuts.

Trump calls for Congress to pass border legislation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump renewed calls for Congress to pass immigration legislation on Monday, one day after saying he would not consider a deal to protect young immigrants.

U.S. safety agency criticizes Tesla crash data release

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday it was "unhappy" that electric car maker Tesla Inc made public information about the crash of its Model X vehicle on Autopilot that killed the driver last month.

'Affluenza' Texan, who killed four driving drunk, to be released

FORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A Texan who was dubbed the "affluenza teen" is due to be released from jail on Monday after serving nearly two years for killing four people while driving drunk and later fleeing to Mexico with his mother.

Supreme Court throws out Arizona police excessive force suit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with an Arizona police officer in a case testing the constitutional limits for the use of force, throwing out a lawsuit brought against him by a woman he shot four times in her driveway while she held a large kitchen knife.

Deadly car wreck off California cliff may have been intentional

(Reuters) - The sports utility vehicle (SUV) that plunged off a Northern California cliff into the Pacific Ocean last week, killing a family of eight, may have been driven off the coastal highway intentionally, police said late Sunday.

Civil rights 'Freedom Riders' cherish MLK's lasting legacy, 50 years on

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Singleton only met civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. once, but that meeting changed his life. 

Four charged with trading on U.S. health agency leaks face trial

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Washington political consultant, a federal government employee and two former partners at an investment advisory firm are set to face trial on Monday on federal charges that they ran an insider trading scheme based on leaks from within a federal healthcare agency.

Rising tension at protests over killing of black man in California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Tensions mounted over the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Sacramento, California, black man when a protester sustained minor injuries when struck by a sheriff's patrol car that was under attack by demonstrators, authorities said on Sunday.

With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyber attack

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Atlanta's top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert to paper.

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