Iranian granted U.S. visa to aid brother with cancer despite travel ban
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department granted a visa to a man in Iran hoping to donate bone marrow to his U.S. citizen brother with blood cancer, obtaining a rare waiver to President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the family’s lawyer said on Thurs…
Arkansas sues opioid manufacturers for roles in epidemic
(Reuters) – Arkansas’ attorney general on Thursday joined the widening mass of litigation against opioid manufacturers, accusing three drugmakers of promoting addictive painkillers in ways that falsely denied or trivialized their risks.
UAW added members in 2017, but union dues fell versus 2016
DETROIT (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers added new members for the ninth consecutive year in 2017 and the union remained in the black, but overall dues fell versus the previous year, according to the union’s annual filing with the U.S. Department of…
Ads pulled from Ingraham show after she mocked Parkland survivor
(Reuters) – At least seven companies said on Thursday they were dropping advertisements from Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter and he responded with a call …
New York offers free cyber security tools to public to deter hackers
(Reuters) – New York City will offer free cyber security tools to the public as part of a new effort to improve online safety, officials said on Thursday, a week after Atlanta was hit with a ransomware attack that knocked some municipal systems offline…
Baltimore man highlighted in ‘Serial’ to get new murder trial
(Reuters) – A Baltimore man whose murder conviction was questioned by the popular 2014 “Serial” podcast will be retried, a Maryland appeals court ordered on Thursday, after concluding that his lawyer had failed to defend him effectively.
U.S. ends presumed freedom for pregnant immigrants
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Thursday it would no longer presume that many pregnant women detained by immigration authorities should be released from custody, reversing an Obama-era directive.
Pentagon silent on U.S. transgender policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly a week after President Donald Trump signed a memorandum banning some transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, Pentagon officials on Thursday refused to answer questions about the policy except to say they woul…
Maryland appeals court orders new trial in ‘Serial’ murder case
(Reuters) – A Maryland appeals court on Thursday ordered a new trial for Adnan Syed, whose conviction for a 1999 murder was questioned by the 2014 podcast “Serial,” a court filing said.
Brother of Florida school shooting suspect pleads no contest to trespass
(Reuters) – The brother of suspected high school shooter Nikolas Cruz pleaded no contest on Thursday to a trespassing charge and will serve probation for visits he made to the Florida campus since the Feb. 14 massacre.
