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.
States sue Trump administration over separation of immigrant families
(Reuters) – The Trump administration was sued on Tuesday by 17 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, which are seeking to stop what they called its “cruel and unlawful” policy of forcibly separating immigrant families who enter the country from Mex…
U.S. top court blocks California law on anti-abortion centers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a California law requiring clinics that counsel women against abortion to notify clients of the availability of abortions paid for by the state, finding that it violated the free speech r…
U.S. Congress divided on immigration crisis, Trump seeks wall funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress, riddled by infighting, looked unlikely to act decisively this week on the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, providing few answers on what comes next for separated parents and c…
Ex-State Street executive convicted in U.S. of hidden fee fraud
BOSTON (Reuters) – A former State Street Corp executive was convicted on Tuesday of participating in a scheme to defraud several of the bank’s customers by charging them secret commissions on billions of dollars of trades.
