Final arguments in Turkish banker’s U.S. trial hinge on gold trader
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday urged a New York jury to find Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive at Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank, guilty of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions, while Atilla’s lawyers said he was a “blameless paw…
U.S. investigators seeking to interview crew members in fatal derailment
DUPONT, Wash. (Reuters) – Safety investigators hope the engineer of an Amtrak passenger train that careened off a bridge onto a highway in Washington state can explain why his locomotive was traveling more than twice the speed limit when the deadly der…
South Carolina capital could be first U.S. city to ban gun bump stocks
(Reuters) – South Carolina’s capital on Tuesday could become the first U.S. city to ban the use of bump stocks, a gun accessory that has drawn national scrutiny after being found among the Las Vegas mass shooter’s arsenal of weapons in the October ramp…
Bill could make Congress members liable for harassment payouts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers of both parties are working on legislation that would make members of Congress liable for settlements of sexual harassment claims against them, as new data shows public funds have been used to settle nearly a dozen case…
Green groups sue Trump administration over delay of methane rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A coalition of nearly 20 environmental and Native American tribal groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, challenging its delay of a rule limiting emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas drillin…
Trucks cart off mangled train cars after Washington state crash
DUPONT, Wash. (Reuters) – Workers lifted mangled train cars onto flatbed trucks on Tuesday from the wreckage of an Amtrak train that veered off a bridge over a Washington state highway while traveling at more than twice the speed limit on its first run…
Trump aides visit Puerto Rico as Congress weighs disaster package
GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Two of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet secretaries visited Puerto Rico on Tuesday to assess its needs after Hurricane Maria’s devastation as U.S. lawmakers weighed a massive aid package to help the island and other ar…
Weather offers some help in battle against California wildfire
(Reuters) – Thousands of weary firefighters, battling a Southern California wildfire that now ranks as the second-largest in the state’s known history, got a little help from more favorable weather on Tuesday amid fresh signs of progress against the fl…
U.S. lifts funding ban on studies that enhance dangerous germs
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Tuesday lifted a 2014 temporary ban on funding research involving the flu and other pathogens in which scientists deliberately make them more transmissible or more deadly.
Amtrak safety record already under scrutiny before fatal derailment
(Reuters) – The deadly derailment of an Amtrak train south of Seattle is likely to intensify scrutiny of the national passenger railroad company’s safety record, which was already under the microscope following a series of fatal incidents.
