U.S. grand jury indicts man accused of Manhattan terror attack
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Bangladeshi man accused of attempting a suicide bombing in a busy New York City commuter hub in the name of Islamic State in December was indicted on U.S. terrorism charges by a grand jury on Wednesday.
U.S. immigration operation targets 7-Eleven stores in 17 states
(Reuters) – U.S. immigration agents fanned out to nearly 100 7-Eleven convenience stores nationwide on Wednesday, arresting 21 people suspected of being in the country illegally and giving owners a tight deadline to prove other employees are authorized…
California mudslides kill 15, more feared dead in deluge
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Reuters) – Rescue crews with dogs and scanners dug through waist-deep mud in an affluent stretch of Southern California’s coast on Wednesday, hunting for up to two dozen people missing after mudslides swept through the coastal co…
Trump blasts DACA ruling, calls U.S. court system ‘broken and unfair’
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump blasted the federal court system as “broken and unfair” on Wednesday after a judge blocked his administration’s move to end a program protecting young immigrants brought to the United States i…
New construction to lift Manhattan office rents in 2018: Cushman
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The largest amount of new construction to hit Manhattan since the 1980s will lift asking rents this year for office space in New York as demand likely continues to grow faster than the U.S. average, executives from Cushman & Wakefield said on Wednesday.
California proposes more spending on schools and roads
(Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown proposed a budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year on Wednesday that would be a 5 percent increase over the current year, with greater spending on education and transportation, while he warned about a likely a eco…
Judge deals setback to Cherokee Nation lawsuit over opioids
TULSA, Okla. (Reuters) – A federal judge in Oklahoma has dealt a blow to a Cherokee Nation lawsuit seeking to stop the flow of addictive opioid painkillers in its territory by issuing a preliminary injunction to prevent the case from being heard in tri…
Ohio man indicted for using ‘Fruitfly’ malware to spy on Americans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Ohio man was charged in a 16-count indictment on Wednesday for allegedly using malware known as “Fruitfly” to surreptitiously record people by secretly taking over their computer cameras and microphones, the U.S. Justice Depar…
Vermont senate passes bill to legalize marijuana use
(Reuters) – Vermont’s senate on Wednesday passed a bill to legalize recreational marijuana use, which would make the state the first in the nation to do so through the legislative process rather than a ballot initiative.
Divided Supreme Court may allow Ohio voter purge policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices were joined by liberal Stephen Breyer on Wednesday in signaling sympathy toward Ohio’s policy of purging infrequent voters from registration rolls — a practice critics say disenfranchises…
