Control of Congress in play in votes in seven states
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appeared poised to capture his party’s nomination on Tuesday for this fall’s midterm elections, a day after President Donald Trump campaigned at his side.
U.S. issued waivers to Trump’s travel ban at rate of 2 percent, data shows
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One argument the Trump administration made to the Supreme Court this spring to prove the legality of its travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries was that it had a robust waiver process that would allow people in on a case…
States sue Trump over immigrant families as Congress quarrels
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was ill…
U.S. top court upholds Trump travel ban targeting Muslim-majority nations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitut…
Wildfires threaten Northern California homes, national park in New Mexico
(Reuters) – Four wildfires burned in Northern California on Tuesday, threatening hundreds of homes, while another blaze in an area of New Mexico hard hit by drought will force most of a sprawling national park to close, fire officials said.
Warmer waters cut Alaska’s prized salmon harvest
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Warming waters have reduced the harvest of Alaska’s prized Copper River salmon to just a fraction of last year’s harvest, Alaska biologists say.
Four injuries reported in Texas hospital blast
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – At least four people were injured in an explosion outside a central Texas hospital on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of some patients, authorities and local media said.
U.S. charges Chinese military research institute with export scheme
BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Chinese military research institute with conspiring to violate U.S. export laws by tasking the head of a company that distributes marine-related products to obtain items that could be used in ant…
States sue Trump on immigrant families, as Congress quarrels
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump’s order last week ending the breakups was ill…
U.S. court dismisses climate change lawsuits against oil companies
(Reuters) – A federal court in California dismissed climate change lawsuits by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against five oil companies, saying the complaints required foreign and domestic policy decisions that were outside its purview.
