New York fast-food workers’ payroll law survives free speech challenge
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a restaurant industry lawsuit challenging a New York City law requiring fast-food employers to send money that workers want deducted from their paychecks to nonprofits, including groups they might oppose.
Pennsylvania hospital patient tests negative for Ebola
An unidentified patient who was kept in isolation at a Philadelphia hospital while being tested for Ebola has been confirmed as not infected with the deadly virus, a hospital spokesman said on Wednesday.
‘El Chapo’ jury deliberations to stretch into fourth day
Jury deliberations in the U.S. trial of accused Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman were expected to stretch into a fourth day after jurors asked to review days’ worth of testimony from key prosecution witnesses.
Blackface, sex assault scandals shake top Virginia Democrats
Virginia’s attorney general on Wednesday admitted he wore blackface at a college party, becoming the state’s third high-ranking Democrat caught up in scandal since the release of a racist photo from Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook.
U.S. border officials don’t share Trump’s zeal for border wall: lawmakers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Wednesday described a multi-pronged strategy for tightening the southern border with Mexico that did not focus mainly on a massive wall President Donald Trump demands, according to lawmakers who attended …
U.S. sues to block Philadelphia safe drug-injection site
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said it had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop a nonprofit in Philadelphia from opening what could become the nation’s first supervised drug-injection site in an effort aimed at addressing opioid abuse.
Man charged with kidnapping Wisconsin teen agrees to trial
The Wisconsin man charged with kidnapping a 13-year-old girl and killing her parents will face a criminal trial after he waived his right to a probable cause hearing on Wednesday.
On abortion, Trump agenda likely leads to Supreme Court, not Congress
President Donald Trump urged lawmakers in his State of the Union address to put new limits on abortion, but partisan division in the U.S. Congress means the Supreme Court likely will set the agenda on the divisive issue, as it has for decades.
Virginia attorney general says wore blackface in college as scandal spreads
Virginia’s attorney general on Wednesday admitted to having worn blackface at a college party, becoming the state’s third high-ranking Democrat caught up in scandal since the release Friday of a racist photo from Governor Ralph Northam’s medical school…
Patient being tested in Pennsylvania for possible Ebola exposure: hospital
An unidentified patient was being tested on Wednesday at a Philadelphia hospital for possibly having been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus, a hospital official said.
