Fierce California winds expected as crews fight to tame wildfire
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Crews battling a devastating California wildfire that now ranks as the state’s second-largest on record may face another round of fierce winds on Wednesday after they made progress corralling the flames.
Tax bill’s ‘pass-through’ rule will aid wealthy, not workers: critics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wealthy business owners, such as President Donald Trump, stand to gain from a provision in the Republican tax bill that creates a valuable deduction for owners of pass-through businesses, Democrats and some tax experts say.
U.S. House to vote again on tax bill, Trump on verge of win
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday was expected to give final approval to a sweeping tax bill and send it to President Donald Trump to sign into law, sealing his first major legislative victory i…
Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of Church’s sexual abuse crisis, dies
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston who became a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church’s worldwide sexual abuse scandals, died on Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86.
Cardinal Bernard Law, forced to resign over sex-abuse scandal, dies: media
(Reuters) – Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign in 2002 as archbishop of Boston over a sex-abuse scandal after a two-decade reign as one of the highest-ranking Catholic officials in the United States, has died, news media said.
Crews battling California wildfire make headway in third day of fair weather
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Crews battling a devastating California wildfire that now ranks as the state’s second-largest on record capitalized on a third straight day of favorable weather conditions on Tuesday as they made greater progress corralling the …
NY City Comptroller proposes pension funds to cut fossil fuel portfolio
(Reuters) – New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said on Tuesday his office would propose to the trustees of the NYC pension funds to explore stopping additional investments in fossil fuels and increasing investments in clean energy.
Trump aides hope win on taxes will stem slide in poll numbers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Near the end of President Donald Trump’s rocky first year in office, White House aides view imminent victory on a tax overhaul as a starting point to strengthen his weak approval ratings ahead of key congressional elections next …
U.S. investigators seek answers from train crew in Washington derailment
DUPONT, Wash. (Reuters) – U.S. safety inspectors probing the deadly wreck of a passenger train that careened off a bridge onto a highway in Washington state are eager to question the engineer and a conductor-in-training who were in the cab of the locom…
U.S. investigators seek to interview train crew in Washington 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 help explain why his locomotive was going more than twice the speed limit when the deadly de…
