Radio host Keillor fired over ‘dozens’ of incidents: network
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Minnesota Public Radio ended its contracts with “Prairie Home Companion” host Garrison Keillor over multiple accusations of sexual misconduct by a woman who had worked on the show and not a single incident, the network’s preside…
U.S. investigators to probe crash between Tesla vehicle, fire truck
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday it was sending two investigators to examine the crash of a Tesla Inc vehicle apparently traveling in semi-autonomous mode and a fire truck in California.
New York man pleads guilty to attempting to join Islamic State
(Reuters) – A New York man has pleaded guilty to trying to help Islamic State by traveling to Turkey with the goal of entering Syria and fighting for the militant group, federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday.
Democrats withdraw offer to fund Trump’s border wall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats said on Tuesday they had withdrawn an offer to fund U.S. President Donald Trump’s border wall, as tough negotiations over the future of young illegal immigrants known as “Dreamers” resumed in the Senate.
Two students dead, 17 injured in shooting at Kentucky high school
BENTON, Ky. (Reuters) – A 15-year-old boy opened fire with a handgun just before classes started at his high school in rural western Kentucky on Tuesday, killing two fellow students and wounding a dozen other youths before he was arrested, the state’s …
Five bodies recovered in Oklahoma oil well explosion: sheriff
HOUSTON (Reuters) – The bodies of five people killed in an Oklahoma oil well explosion were recovered on Tuesday afternoon in a building adjacent to the drilling site outside of Quinton, Oklahoma, Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris said at a briefin…
U.S. investigators to probe crash between Tesla vehicle and fire truck
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday it was sending two investigators to examine a crash on Monday involving a Tesla vehicle and a fire truck in California.
Aetna is fined by New York for leaking members’ HIV status
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Aetna Inc will pay a $1.15 million civil fine and improve its privacy practices to settle charges that it leaked the HIV-positive status of 2,460 New York members in a mailing where it used envelopes with large transparent windows….
Climate advocacy group sues U.S. EPA for ‘purge’ of scientists
(Reuters) – A climate change advocacy group on Tuesday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for banning certain scientists from serving on its advisory committees, a move the group said will give business an unfair influence on policy.
Chinese citizen pleads guilty to U.S. graduate school exam fraud
BOSTON (Reuters) – A Chinese citizen accused of posing as someone else to take a graduate school entrance exam on her behalf pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a criminal case that arose from U.S. prosecutors investigating international students who use impo…
