U.S. charges Arizona man with threatening Harvard’s black commencement
(Reuters) – An Arizona man who made racially-charged online threats to shoot students attending Harvard’s first black commencement ceremony last year and to bomb the university has been arrested, federal authorities said on Saturday.
Kate Spade items fly off virtual thrift shop shelves after designer’s death
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The unexpected death of fashion designer Kate Spade on Tuesday has shoppers rushing to buy her brightly colored handbags, raising prices of used merchandise several times over, second-hand online retailers said.
Probe finds PG&E power lines sparked deadly 2017 California wildfires
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A dozen of the wind-driven blazes that swept northern California’s wine country last fall, killing 46 people in the deadliest firestorm in state history, were sparked by PG&E-owned power lines, state officials said on Friday.
Federal judge blocks Indiana from enforcing voter purge law
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday blocked the state of Indiana from enforcing a 2017 law allowing election officials to remove voters from the rolls if they were flagged by a controversial tracking system.
Environmentalists slam Interior chief Zinke over Yellowstone chief’s ouster
(In June 8 story, corrects in paragraph 7 to show what was reviewed were national monuments, not national parks.)
Lawyers, workers question putting immigration detainees in U.S. prisons
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s transfer of hundreds of detained immigrants into five U.S. prisons puts the detainees and prison staffers at risk, said prison workers and immigration lawyers on Friday.
Trump offers olive branch to NFL players with input on pardons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump held out an olive branch in his feud with National Football League players on Friday, asking them for recommendations as he considers pardoning several thousand people who may have been unfairly treate…
Main customer of Arizona coal plant goes green, ignoring Interior Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The main buyer of electricity from an Arizona coal plant on the verge of closure said on Friday it will instead source its electricity largely from a solar power project, ignoring an appeal by the U.S. Interior Department to buy …
Ex-CIA officer convicted of spying for China: U.S. Justice Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal jury on Friday convicted a former CIA case officer on espionage charges for passing classified documents to China, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Former U.S. Senate staffer charged with lying to FBI over contacts with media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee staffer appeared in federal court on Friday on charges of lying to FBI agents in a case that has raised concerns about media freedoms.
