Mueller ups pressure on Trump campaign aides with new charge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday stepped up pressure on two former Trump campaign aides to cooperate in his probe into possible collusion with Russia, unsealing a criminal charge against a lawyer for lying to Muelle…
Trump orders regulations drawn up to ban bump stocks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to draw up regulations banning devices that turn firearms into machine guns, like the bump stock used in October’s mass shootin…
U.S. Attorney General Sessions forms cyber task force to probe election meddling
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the creation of a task force to examine how his Justice Department can better combat a wide cross-section of global cyber threats, including efforts to interfere with elections or d…
VW bid to delay first U.S. diesel emissions trial rejected
FAIRFAX, Va. (Reuters) – A Virginia state court judge on Tuesday rejected a request by the U.S. unit of Volkswagen AG to delay several of the company’s trials over excess emissions because of “inflammatory” comments made by a lawyer representing car …
After father’s plea, Texas board recommends clemency for death row inmate
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Death row inmate Thomas “Bart” Whitaker, convicted of hatching a plot that left his mother and brother dead and his father with a gun wound to the chest, received a unanimous clemency recommendation on Tuesday after his father…
Supreme Court snubs challenge to California gun waiting period
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a blow to gun rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to California’s 10-day waiting period for firearms purchases that is intended to guard against impulsive violence and suicides.
Seventh grader shoots himself in Ohio school, prompting lockdown
(Reuters) – A seventh-grade student shot and wounded himself inside a school bathroom in Ohio on Tuesday morning with a gun he brought to school, but no one else was injured, police said.
Virginia judge rejects Volkswagen bid to delay first U.S. diesel emissions trial
FAIRFAX, Va. (Reuters) – A Virginia state court judge on Tuesday rejected a request by the U.S. unit of Volkswagen AG to delay several of the company’s trials over excess emissions because it fears “inflammatory” comments made by a lawyer representing…
Survivors of Florida school shooting launch gun control push
PARKLAND/TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) – Dozens of students and parents from the Florida high school where 17 teens and staff members were slain last week in a shooting rampage arrived in the state capital of Tallahassee on Tuesday to lobby for a ban on …
Republicans will sue to block court-drawn Pennsylvania congressional map
(Reuters) – State and national Republican officials will file a federal lawsuit as soon as Wednesday seeking to block a new Pennsylvania congressional map released on Monday by the state’s high court, the party’s congressional campaign arm said on Tues…
