House panel OKs move to give Congress records of FBI probes against Trump
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Donald Trump.
U.S. EPA assessing Superfund sites in flood-hit Nebraska, Missouri
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it was assessing two Superfund environmental cleanup sites in Nebraska and Missouri that were affected by recent flooding.
Despite report findings, almost half of Americans think Trump colluded with Russia: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Nearly half of all Americans still believe President Donald Trump worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared Trump of that allegation.
Unvaccinated children face public space ban in New York measles outbreak
A New York suburb has banned children not vaccinated against measles from public spaces, such as schools and shopping malls, as it fights the state’s worst outbreak in decades of the potentially deadly disease.
U.S. House fails to override Trump veto, upholding border wall emergency
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to override President Donald Trump’s first veto, leaving in place the “national emergency” he declared last month to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall that Congress has not funded.
Democrats pounce as Trump administration ratchets up attack on Obamacare
Top congressional Democrats on Tuesday attacked a legal move by the Trump administration to step up its assault on the Obamacare healthcare law, saying last November’s elections showed Americans want them to protect the Affordable Care Act.
Purdue Pharma agrees to $270 million settlement in Oklahoma opioid case
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and members of the wealthy Sackler family that own the company reached a $270 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit brought by the state of Oklahoma accusing the drugmaker of fueling an opioid abuse epidemic.
Patriots owner Kraft wants jury trial in Florida prostitution case
Attorneys for New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft on Tuesday filed court papers requesting a jury trial on solicitation of prostitution charges stemming from a sting operation at a Florida massage parlor.
Jussie Smollett hoax charge dropped by Chicago prosecutors, prompting mayor’s rebuke
Chicago prosecutors on Tuesday dropped charges accusing “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett of staging a phony hate crime, a stunning move that drew the fury of the city’s police superintendent and mayor, who called the decision a “whitewash of justice.”
Start your engine, U.S. justices tell hovercraft-riding moose hunter
In the words of Justice Elena Kagan, an Alaska hunter can now “rev up his hovercraft in search of moose” after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled in favor of his bid to use a river on a federal preserve to reach his prey.
