U.S. military may house immigrant children as Trump policy beset by confusion
WASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – The U.S. military has been asked to get ready to house up to 20,000 immigrant children, officials said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back a widely condemned policy of separating children …
Exclusive: Tesla to close a dozen solar facilities in nine states – documents
LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Electric car maker Tesla Inc’s move last week to cut 9 percent of its workforce will sharply downsize the residential solar business it bought two years ago in a controversial $2.6 billion deal, according to three …
U.S. State Department imposes visa ban on several DRCongo officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Thursday it had imposed visa bans on several senior officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo for corruption tied to the country’s electoral process to send a “strong signal” about the need for a pe…
Conservative U.S. commentator Charles Krauthammer dies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Krauthammer, who gave up a psychiatric career to become one of the leading conservative political commentators in the U.S. media, died on Thursday at the age of 68, the Washington Post and Fox News s…
Three men indicted for Minnesota mosque bombing
(Reuters) – Three men from a rural community in Illinois were indicted on Thursday and charged for the 2017 bombing of a mosque outside Minneapolis, U.S. prosecutors said.
Trump tries to defuse immigrant crisis, but policy hit by confusion
WASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies on Thursday to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation we…
Melania Trump’s jacket mixes message during visit to detained immigrant children
MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) – First Lady Melania Trump’s visit on Thursday to a Texas shelter housing migrant children separated from their parents was overshadowed by a jacket she wore with the words: “I really don’t care, do u?” scrawled in white brush …
Minnesota firms sue over Trump administration mine leases near wilderness
(Reuters) – Minnesota outdoor recreation firms have sued the federal government over its decision to reinstate leases for a mine next to a state wilderness as part of the Trump administration’s drive to allow mining in some of the country’s wildest are…
Despite Trump order, border child separations could go on: legal experts
(Reuters) – The much-vilified U.S. policy of separating children from parents who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border could continue under certain circumstances because of ambiguous language in President Donald Trump’s order meant to end the practic…
U.S. prosecutors accuse Texas oil man ‘Frack Master’ of fraud
(Reuters) – A Texas oil and gas businessman who called himself the “Frack Master” has been charged with securities fraud in connection with a scheme that defrauded investors out of $62.6 million, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
