Colorado wildfire spreads as winds strengthen
(Reuters) – A stubborn Colorado wildfire grew by around a fifth on Saturday and was expected to continue to grow Sunday, consuming sparsely populated land as low humidity and high winds left firefighters bracing for it to spread, officials said.
Rise in U.S. suicides highlights need for new depression drugs
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A spike in suicide rates in the United States has cast fresh light on the need for more effective treatments for major depression, with researchers saying it is a tricky development area that has largely been abandoned by big pharma…
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 …
