Tuesday, May 21, 2013
 
 

By Bernard Vaughan

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The federal judge who will rule in a class-action lawsuit accusing New York City police of racial profiling in their "stop and frisk" crime-fighting tactic expressed interest in having police officers wear cameras as the trial concluded on Monday.

"Everybody would know exactly what occurred" in a given stop, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said toward the end of closing arguments in the trial, which lasted more than nine weeks and produced an 8,000-page record.

The judge was referring to an expert witness for the city who testified recently about other cities trying wearable cameras.

"I'm intrigued by it," Scheindlin sai  [READ MORE]
 
 
By Barbara Liston

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Thousands of people have protested against the prosecution of an 18-year-old Florida high school senior after her parents launched an Internet petition claiming she was charged with sex crimes only because her lover, a then 14-year-old schoolm...  [READ MORE]
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate should cut crop insurance subsidies, the most expensive part of the farm safety net, by $1 billion a year before it passes the new farm bill, the White House said on Monday.

The five-year farm bill would cost about $500 billion, with three-fourths of the m...  [READ MORE]
(Reuters) - Dozens of people were injured in a huge tornado that flattened parts of Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday, according to officials of three hospitals.

There were no confirmed reports of fatalities yet.

Integris Southwest Medical center in Oklahoma City, which has ...  [READ MORE]
By Lindsay Morris

TULSA, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A huge tornado flattened an area near Oklahoma City on Monday, tearing up at least two schools and leaving a wake of tangled wreckage as a dangerous storm system threatened as many as 10 U.S. states.

Television video showe...  [READ MORE]
By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities brought criminal charges against three New York University researchers on Monday, alleging they conspired to take bribes from Chinese medical and research outfits for details about NYU research into magnetic resonan...  [READ MORE]
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new State Department report warned about incidents in Venezuela, Egypt and Iran.

Secretary of State John Kerry named Ira Forman, a long time director of the National Jewish...  [READ MORE]
 
 
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