Ex-Dallas officer who shot man in his home charged with murder
A former Dallas police officer was charged with murder on Friday for shooting an unarmed black neighbor whose apartment she said she mistakenly entered instead of her own, prosecutors said.
U.S. to conduct additional Keystone XL pipeline review
The U.S. State Department will conduct another environmental review of TransCanada Corp’s long-pending Keystone XL oil pipeline, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that could lead to additional delays of the project.
Dallas police officer who shot man in his own home charged with murder
A former Dallas police officer was charged with murder on Friday for shooting an unarmed black neighbor after she said she mistakenly went to his apartment instead of her own, the Dallas County District Attorney’s office said.
Whitaker knew of fraud complaints while at World Patent Marketing: documents
Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was aware of fraud allegations against an invention promotion company where he was an advisor and was slow to respond to government investigators probing it, documents released on Friday show.
U.S. judge gives preliminary OK to $48 million Volkswagen investor settlement
A U.S. judge in California has granted preliminary approval to a $48 million settlement for investors who said Volkswagen AG made false and misleading statements over its excess diesel emissions.
Pentagon appears poised to extend Mexico border deployment
The Pentagon received a request on Friday from the Trump administration to extend its deployment of troops to the U.S. border with Mexico beyond a Dec. 15 authorization date to the end of January, officials said.
Pentagon gets request to extend Mexico border deployment
The Pentagon has received a request from within the Trump administration to extend the deployment of troops to the border with Mexico, which otherwise would have ended on Dec. 15, U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymit…
U.S. wants new aviation standard to expand passenger data collection
The United States is pushing for a new global aviation standard by late 2019 that would expand the collection of passenger records from airlines, a high-ranking state department official said on Friday, in a move that would help combat terrorism while …
Powerful earthquake rattles Alaska, no injuries reported
A powerful earthquake shook southern Alaska on Friday morning, buckling roads, disrupting traffic and knocking television stations off the air in the state’s largest city, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.
Driver in Charlottesville rally never braked, photographer testifies
A photojournalist who took a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the car plowing into a crowd of counterprotesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia last year said in court on Friday that no image in the series showed its brake lights on.
