Supreme Court lets Trump’s latest travel ban go into full effect
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower c…
NY attorney general asks for net neutrality vote to be put off
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York’s attorney general urged the Federal Communications Commission to delay a vote rolling back net neutrality rules because of the large number of fake comments submitted to the agency on the issue.
Former Florida congresswoman sentenced to five years for fraud
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Former U.S. Representative Corrine Brown of Florida was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for her role in helping raise more than $800,000 for a bogus charity that was used as a slush fund, federal court offi…
Gold trader says he paid bribes to get out of Turkish jail in 2013
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Turkish-Iranian gold trader testifying at the trial of a Turkish bank executive in a New York federal court said Monday that he paid bribes to secure his release from jail in Turkey in 2013.
Trump outlines big cuts to Utah monuments, tribes prepare to sue
WASHINGTON/SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Monday shrank two wilderness national monuments in Utah by at least half in the biggest rollback of public land protection in U.S. history, drawing praise from pro-development lawmakers an…
Trump administration proposes rollback of tip-pooling rule
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday proposed eliminating an Obama administration rule that allowed restaurant employees to keep their tips instead of being forced to share them with non-tipped workers, saying the rule had contributed to…
Trump outlines big cuts to Utah monuments, riling tribes, environmentalists
WASHINGTON/SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump announced big cuts to Utah’s sprawling wilderness national monuments on Monday, angering tribes and environmental groups that want to keep the areas off limits to development.
ACLU sues to block Nebraska executions, challenges governor
(Reuters) – A new lawsuit says the 11 men on Nebraska’s death row cannot be executed because a voter referendum backed by Governor Pete Ricketts to overturn a 2015 repeal of capital punishment failed to restore their death sentences.
Six-year-old skeptic tells Santa ‘your life is empty’
(Reuters) – A 6-year-old boy from the Washington area has shaken up social media with an all-too-skeptical letter to Santa Claus in which he pretends to know jolly Saint Nick’s life is empty and that Santa had no idea whether he had been naughty or nic…
Judge to weigh sentence for South Carolina ex-policeman who killed black man
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors said on Monday that a white former South Carolina policeman caught on video shooting an unarmed black man in the back committed murder, while defense lawyers argued their client did not deserve to go to pri…
