Americans reflect on Martin Luther King Jr’s legacy 50 years on
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) – A half century after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, visitors still flock to the Memphis, Tennessee, site where the civil rights leader was assassinated and say that while there has been progress in racial equality, more…
Fewer Russian spies in U.S. but getting harder to track
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. decision to expel 60 alleged spies is unlikely to cripple Russian spying in the United States because others have wormed and hacked their way into American companies, schools, and even the government, current and former …
Supreme Court weighs Republican challenge to Maryland electoral map
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday considers for the second time in recent months whether to rein in politicians who draw state electoral maps with the aim of entrenching their party in power in a case involving a Maryland congr…
Harvard board member makes rare call for fossil fuel divestment
BOSTON (Reuters) – A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution an…
California county joins Trump ‘sanctuary city’ lawsuit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of Orange County, California on Tuesday voted to join a federal lawsuit against the state’s sanctuary law as part of a growing backlash in some conservative parts of California to state laws that protect illegal immigrant…
Uber agrees to settle California discrimination lawsuit for $10 million
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two women engineers who accused the ride-services company of gender and race discrimination.
States vow to fight U.S. plan to ask citizenship question on census
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York, California and other states vowed on Tuesday to stop the U.S. government from asking in the 2020 census whether people are citizens, arguing the question could stop immigrants from participating and skew the makeup of Co…
California attorney general to probe Sacramento police shooting
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – California’s attorney general joined an investigation on Tuesday into this month’s killing by Sacramento police of an unarmed black man standing in his grandparents’ backyard, a death that sparked street protests.
Uber’s use of fewer safety sensors prompts questions after Arizona crash
TEMPE, Ariz./PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility vehicles, it also chose to scale back on one notable piece of technology: the safety sensors used to dete…
Alabama settles with inmate after botched execution attempt
(Reuters) – Alabama has reached a settlement with an inmate suffering from terminal cancer and severely compromised veins who survived an execution attempt last month when a lethal injection had to be aborted, according to court documents.
