Tenants group alleges Kushner Companies falsified permits
(Reuters) – A New York tenants rights group and local politician said on Monday they would launch an investigation into the real estate company formerly headed by Jared Kushner, a top aide to President Donald Trump, over alleged falsification of buildi…
U.S. Supreme Court allows Flint water contamination lawsuits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the green light to two class-action lawsuits filed by residents of Flint, Michigan who are pursing civil rights claims against local and state officials over lead contamination in the city’s …
Police suspect ‘serial bomber’ in deadly Austin attacks
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Four bombs that have gone off this month around Austin, Texas, with the latest injuring two men on Sunday, have similarities that lead investigators to believe they are the work of a serial bomber, police said on Monday.
U.S. top court will not hear challenge to federal agency power
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider rolling back the wide latitude federal agencies are given to interpret their own regulations in a case that could have bolstered President Donald Trump’s push toward deregulat…
U.S. Supreme Court allows Flint water contamination lawsuit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the green light to two class-action lawsuits filed by residents of Flint, Michigan who are pursing civil rights claims against local and state officials over lead contamination in the city’s …
U.S. top court rebuffs Arizona killer’s death penalty challenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty, refusing to hear an Arizona contract killer’s argument that it amounts to impermissible cruel and unusual punishment and …
U.S. Supreme Court takes up new immigration detention dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took up a new dispute over the detention of immigrants in a case involving whether people who were convicted of criminal offenses and were subject to deportation can go free in certain instances a…
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Arizona challenge to ‘Dreamers’ program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday required Arizona to continue to issue driver’s licenses to the so-called Dreamers immigrants and refused to hear the state’s challenge to an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands o…
Trip wire may have set off latest bomb in Austin, wounding two
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Two men on bicycles were wounded after a bomb exploded, possibly detonated by a trip wire, police said on Monday, as authorities continued to investigate three parcel bombs that killed two people earlier this month in the Texa…
U.S. drinkers take Britain’s crown as top world champagne buyers
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. drinkers overtook Britons as the world’s biggest buyers of champagne in 2017, after British purchases fell heavily for the second straight year following the vote to leave the European Union, industry data showed.
