U.S. lawmakers: Egypt’s ‘descent toward despotism’ risks U.S. aid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior U.S. lawmakers said on Tuesday they were rethinking the more than $1 billion in military aid Washington sends to Cairo after Egyptian courts handed out mass death sentences to opposition figures and long prison terms for j…
Four Republican candidates vying for bid to unseat Colorado governor
DENVER (Reuters) – Republican voters in Colorado will decide on Tuesday which of four candidates on a primary ballot will challenge Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper in November, who all the hopefuls say is a weak executive.
Florida voter drive seeks to motivate state’s youth vote
ORLANDO (Reuters) – The Dream Defenders, a student-led group that garnered national attention for occupying the Florida governor’s office in 2013 to protest the state’s self-defense law, kicked off a campaign on Tuesday to get younger voters to the pol…
Bid to save beach bonfires advances in California legislature
SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) – As rising temperatures send thousands to Southern California’s storied beaches, lawmakers are rushing to make sure a classic rite of summer, the beach bonfire, doesn’t burn out before they get there.
Federal land workers to gather wild horses in Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – The federal government has approved a plan to relocate 140 wild horses from over-populated herds roaming southwest Utah, officials said on Tuesday, in a bid to quell a long-running dispute between its land agency, ranchers an…
Pentagon eyes remedies as spending ‘bow wave’ looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. weapons makers must focus on affordability and be more upfront about the cost of new, cutting-edge technologies given a large “bow wave” of increased spending facing the Pentagon in the 2020s, Comptroller Robert Hale told Re…
Washington state moves to keep recreational pot from kids
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Washington state, which is moving forward on allowing stores to sell pot for recreational use, will require child-resistant packaging on marijuana products and prohibit images that could appeal to minors, Governor Jay Inslee said on…
Archivist faults U.S. IRS over missing emails in Tea Party inquiry
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service was criticized by the government’s chief archivist on Tuesday over emails that the tax agency has lost, the latest focus of a Republican inquiry into past IRS treatment of conservative groups.
Ex-Im leader to press U.S. lawmakers to reauthorize bank
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the embattled U.S. Export-Import Bank plans to urge lawmakers on Wednesday to renew his agency’s charter soon, emphasizing its support for American manufacturing jobs in a competitive global trade environment.
U.S. to face multibillion-dollar bill from climate change: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing uti…
