U.S. top court hands defeat to Hawaii B&B that spurned lesbian couple
The U.S. Supreme Court handed a defeat on Monday to a bed and breakfast owner in Hawaii who turned away a lesbian couple due to her Christian beliefs, but it could soon take up another major case on the conflict between gay and religious rights.
Nebraska floods inundate military bases, cut off nuclear plant
Flooding that killed three people in Nebraska and Iowa has cut roads to a nuclear power plant and inundated a significant portion of a major U.S. Air Force base, while more of region’s residents faced the possibility of evacuation on Monday.
Former UAW vice president charged in U.S. corruption probe
U.S. prosecutors in Detroit on Monday charged a former high-ranking United Auto Workers official in charge of the labor union’s relations with Fiat Chrysler (FCA) of misusing funds for lavish purchases for himself and other union officials.
Massive fire at Houston petrochemical storage terminal may last two more days
A massive fire at a fuels storage company along the Houston Ship Channel may burn for two more days, an official said on Monday as the blaze spread a plume of black smoke across the city, shutting schools in two nearby communities.
Alan Krueger, economic adviser to Obama and Clinton, dies at 58
Alan Krueger, a Princeton University economics professor who advised U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, died over the weekend at the age of 58, the university said on Monday.
Federal charges for former UAW vice president in corruption probe
U.S. prosecutors in Detroit on Monday charged a former high-ranking United Auto Workers official in charge of the union’s relations with Fiat Chrysler (FCA) of misusing funds for lavish purchases for himself and other union officials.
Isolation, evacuations in U.S. central Plains as floods kill three
Flooding that killed three people in Nebraska and Iowa has cut roads to a nuclear power plant and inundated a large portion of a U.S. Air Force base, forcing it to work with a skeleton staff on Monday, while more of region’s residents possibly faced e…
U.S. prosecutors charge former UAW vice president in corruption probe
Federal prosecutors in Detroit on Monday charged a former United Auto Workers vice president with conspiracy to violate labor laws.
U.S. high court rebuffs Hawaii B&B that turned away lesbian couple
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a new dispute involving gay and religious rights, leaving in place a lower court ruling against a Hawaii bed and breakfast owner who turned away a lesbian couple, citing Christian beliefs.
U.S. high court takes up sentencing appeal in ‘D.C. Sniper’ case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a man serving life in prison over his role in a deadly 2002 shooting spree in the Washington area should be resentenced because he was only 17 years old at the time.
