California set to serve healthy, ‘ethical’ food to prisoners
California lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill requiring hospitals, healthcare facilities and prisons to offer plant-based meals, saying that even inmates deserve to have healthy and “ethical” meal choices.
‘Multiple’ deaths in New Mexico bus-truck crash: officials
A Greyhound passenger bus and a semi-trailer truck collided on an interstate highway in New Mexico on Thursday, leading to “multiple” deaths, the New Mexico State Police said.
U.S. top court rebuffs Catholic agency over same-sex foster care
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to force the city of Philadelphia to resume the placement of children in need of foster care with a Catholic agency that refuses to accept gay couples as foster parents.
Longtime Trump driver’s overtime lawsuit moved to private arbitration
A lawsuit by a former personal driver for U.S. President Donald Trump who has claimed that Trump’s company failed to pay him for thousands of hours of overtime has been moved from federal court to private arbitration, the man’s lawyer said on Thursday….
U.S. top court sides against Catholic agency over same-sex foster care
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to force the City of Philadelphia to resume the placement of children in need of foster care with a Catholic agency that refuses to accept gay couples as foster parents.
NCAA clears Michigan State in Nassar scandal: university
A National Collegiate Athletic Association review found that Michigan State University did not violate the organization’s rules in dealing with former school physician Larry Nassar, who was convicted of molesting hundreds of female gymnasts, the univer…
U.S. argues Harvard admissions policies harm Asian-Americans
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday backed a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants, throwing its support behind a case that could impact the use of race-based college admissions.
Housing funds for Puerto Ricans who fled Hurricane Maria must end: U.S. judge
More than a thousand Puerto Rican families who fled Hurricane Maria will get two more weeks of U.S.-funded housing in hotels and motels across the country but will then need to fend for themselves, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
Judge rejects bid to block end of aid to Hurricane Maria evacuees
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request to block the U.S. government from cutting off aid to hundreds of Puerto Rican families who fled the hurricane-ravaged island in 2017 and are living in hotels and motels across the United States.
U.S. man charged in ‘enemy of the people’ threats to Boston Globe
Federal authorities have charged a California man with threatening to kill Boston Globe employees for the newspaper’s role leading this month’s defense of press freedoms by hundreds of U.S. news organizations against attacks by President Donald Trump.
