Pentagon makes recommendations to White House on transgender individuals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has made his recommendations to the White House on transgender individuals serving in the military, the Pentagon said on Friday, after President Donald Trump’s call last year for a ban on such se…
Staff return to Florida high school for first time since massacre
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) – Staff members returned for the first time on Friday to the Florida high school where 17 students and faculty were gunned down last week in one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, inflaming the national debate abo…
Enterprise to end discounts for NRA members on three of its brands
(Reuters) – U.S. car rental company Enterprise Holdings Inc said it would end discount programs for three of its brands with members of the National Rifle Association (NRA), following a shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school.
Fees case may enable U.S. Supreme Court to curb union power
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider for the second time in two years whether to choke off a critical funding stream for public-employee unions, potentially reducing organized labor’s influence in the workplace and at t…
Exclusive: U.S. official focused on election security will be replaced
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of a federal commission who has helped U.S. states protect election systems from possible cyber attacks by Russia or others is being replaced at the behest of Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan and the…
Texas, Alabama halt executions, Florida puts inmate to death
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott commuted the death sentence of a convicted murderer less than an hour before he was set to be executed on Thursday, after the death row inmate’s family begged for mercy and won a rare clemency recomm…
Special counsel files new charges against Trump ex-aides Manafort and Gates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The special counsel in the Russia probe filed new criminal charges on Thursday against President Donald Trump’s former campaign aides Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, stepping up pressure in a legal battle that started last year.
Armed deputy who failed to confront gunman at Florida school resigns
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – The armed sheriff’s deputy assigned to the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead has resigned rather than face suspension after an internal investigation showed he failed to enter the school to confront th…
Puerto Rico governor announces independent probe into Maria death toll
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s governor said on Thursday he has tapped researchers at the George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., to lead an independent probe into his administration’s controversial tally of deaths caused by Hurricane Ma…
White North Carolina man convicted of murdering unarmed black man
(Reuters) – A North Carolina jury on Thursday convicted a white homeowner of first-degree murder for the 2016 shooting death of an unarmed black man, an attorney for the slain man’s family said.
