Wisconsin city lifts evacuation order after refinery explosion
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of residents of a northern Wisconsin city were cleared to return to their homes on Friday, the day after a blast at a Husky Energy Inc refinery injured at least 15 people, a local official said.
An impossible dream? Democrats try to connect with Trump voters
OSAGE CITY, Kansas (Reuters) – Paul Davis has a simple formula for winning over President Donald Trump’s supporters in his Kansas race for Congress: He talks about kitchen table issues, like prescription drug prices and farm tariffs. And he is in no hurry to announce he’s a Democrat.
Ex-cop charged in ‘Golden State Killer’ case due in California court
SACRAMENTO (Reuters) – An ex-policeman was due in a Sacramento, California, courtroom on Friday to face the first murder charges filed in connection with a string of rapes and killings attributed to the “Golden State Killer” during the 1970s and 1980s….
Investigators work to determine cause of blast at Wisconsin refinery
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (Reuters) – Investigators on Friday searched for the cause of a blast at a Husky Energy refinery that injured at least 15 people and rocked a northern Wisconsin city, sending smoke billowing into the sky and prompting tens of thousands …
In Alaska, soldiers relish role in U.S. missile defense
FORT GREELY, Alaska (Reuters) – Two hours south of Fairbanks, Alaska, near the starting point of the Alaska highway, sit row upon row of missile silos embedded in the frozen ground in the shadow of snow-capped mountains.
NBC’s Tom Brokaw denies allegation of sexual impropriety in 1990s: reports
(Reuters) – A woman who once worked as a war correspondent for NBC News has accused Tom Brokaw, the United States’ top-rated television newsman for much of his career, of sexual impropriety in the 1990s, the Washington Post and Variety reported on Thur…
Migrants in caravan at U.S. border bide time ahead of crossing
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Central American migrants from a caravan through Mexico languished in shelters in the border city of Tijuana on Thursday, waiting for promised legal advice ahead of a planned crossing together to the United States to seek as…
Genealogy websites help California police find Golden State Killer suspect
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California investigators tracked down the man they suspect is the Golden State Killer by comparing crime scene DNA to information on genealogy websites consumers use to trace their ancestry, a prosecutor said on Thursday….
In #MeToo era, Cosby team’s attacks on victims may have backfired
(Reuters) – Time and again during Bill Cosby’s second trial, the comedian’s lawyers launched blistering attacks on the six women who told a Pennsylvania jury that he had sexually abused them, questioning their motives and assailing their characters in …
Parents sue North Korea, saying Warmbier ‘tortured and murdered’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier sued North Korea on Thursday over their son’s death in 2017 following his release from captivity there, according to the lawsuit which said their son was “brutally tortured and mu…
