Count marks sharp drop in monarch butterflies wintering in California
(Reuters) – The number of monarchs wintering in California has dropped to a five-year low, despite more volunteers counting more sites in search of the orange-and-black insect that is arguably the most admired of North American butterflies, a report sa…
Florida nurse’s choice words to avoid flu: ‘Wash your stinking hands’
(Reuters) – A Florida nurse has offered some frank advice for people whose lax hygiene is contributing to a deadly flu outbreak, including “wash your stinking hands!”
Father of molested girls lunges at disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor in court
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Ex-consultant to Iran’s U.N. mission gets three months prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former consultant to Iran’s mission to the United Nations was sentenced to three months in prison on Friday for evading taxes by concealing his income and helping family and friends make money transfers that violated U.S. sanctio…
Man charged over armor-piercing bullet sale to Las Vegas gunman
(Reuters) – An ammunition dealer who has acknowledged selling hundreds of rounds of tracer bullets to a gunman responsible for killing 58 people in Las Vegas was charged on Friday with conspiracy to make and sell armor-piercing ammunition without a lic…
U.S. flu outbreak worsens; hospitalizations highest in nearly a decade: CDC
(Reuters) – The U.S. flu outbreak worsened over the past week as more people headed to doctors’ offices and emergency rooms, with hospitalizations at the highest in nearly 10 years, U.S. health officials said on Friday.
U.S. businessman, philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. dead at 80
(Reuters) – Jon Huntsman Sr., a billionaire U.S. industrialist who invented the “clamshell” fast-food container and gave away much of his fortune for cancer research, died on Friday at age 80, the corporation he founded said.
No progress on ‘Dreamers’ as another U.S. shutdown looms
STERLING, Va./ WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress made no notable progress this week toward a deal on the status of 700,000 “Dreamer” immigrants, with President Donald Trump saying on Friday that one “could very well not happen…
‘Chelsea Bomber’ doesn’t deserve multiple life sentences, his lawyer says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New Jersey man convicted of planting bombs in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood does not deserve multiple life sentences and should be able to further his education and see his family while spending the rest of his life in priso…
U.S. immigration deal by deadline ‘could very well not happen’: Trump
STERLING, Va./ WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday a deal on the status of 700,000 “Dreamer” immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children “could very well not happen” by March 5, when a program protecting them from deportation expires.
