U.S. safety board urges new rules after fatal Oklahoma well blast
An investigation into an explosion at an Oklahoma natural gas drilling rig that killed five workers last year faulted inadequate training and equipment and called for new regulations, the U.S. safety regulator said on Wednesday.
Advocacy groups ask Supreme Court to delay ruling on census citizenship question
Groups challenging the Trump administration’s contentious decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to consider delaying a ruling on the issue in light of new evidence.
Alaskans find more dead seals along warming Arctic Sea
At least 60 dead seals have been discovered along beaches of the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea in northwestern Alaska, and scientists are trying to determine what caused their deaths, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Wedn…
Alleged shooter arrested in $8,000 plot to kill baseball’s David Ortiz
The alleged shooter of David Ortiz has been arrested along with four others in a group offered nearly $8,000 to kill the former Boston Red Sox star at a Dominican Republic bar, authorities said on Wednesday.
Defense in China student’s beheading in Illinois says he did it
An Illinois man accused of kidnapping and killing a graduate student from China two years ago was obsessed with Ted Bundy and other serial killers, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday on the first day of the trial of the sensational case.
U.S. Forest Service aims to speed up logging, infrastructure projects
The U.S. Forest Service, which manages millions of acres of national forests and grasslands, on Wednesday proposed “bold” changes for how it carries out environmental reviews of logging, road building and mining projects on public land, a move that rai…
House panel approves permanent Sept. 11 victims’ compensation
A U.S. congressional committee on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation to extend the fund compensating first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center for the next 70 years, a move that would avoid steep benefit reductio…
House panel backs contempt citations for two Trump Cabinet members over census
A U.S. House committee voted on Wednesday in favor of holding two of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers in contempt of Congress for defying congressional subpoenas related to an effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census.
Puerto Rico oversight board reaches deal over retiree pensions
Puerto Rico’s federally created financial oversight board said on Wednesday it reached a deal to restructure more than $50 billion in unfunded pension liabilities that includes cuts for some of the bankrupt U.S. commonwealth’s retired government worker…
Five people detained in David Ortiz shooting in Dominican Republic
Five people have been detained in the Dominican Republic in connection with the shooting of former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz, the country’s Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez Sánchez said at a news conference on Wednesday.
