Stronger winds loom as crews make progress on California wildfire
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Crews battling Southern California’s sprawling wildfire made incremental progress in containing the two-week-old blaze but faced forecasts for stronger winds on Wednesday that threatened to make it the biggest in state history.
Turkish banker makes second bid for mistrial in U.S. sanctions case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for an executive at Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank who is accused of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions on Wednesday asked a U.S. federal judge to declare a mistrial as jurors were expected to begin deliberating.
U.S. citizens among dead in Mexican bus crash: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department confirmed on Wednesday that multiple American citizens had died when a tour bus rolled over on a trip to ancient ruins in Mexico.
Most of Amtrak train wreckage removed from Washington highway
(Reuters) – Workers had cleared most of the wreckage blocking a major West Coast highway by Wednesday morning, two days after an Amtrak train derailed in Washington state while speeding onto a bridge, state transportation officials said.
Disgraced Cardinal Law, byword for Catholic sexual abuse crisis, dies
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Cardinal Bernard Law, the former Archbishop of Boston who resigned in disgrace after covering up years of sexual abuse of children by priests and whose name became a byword for scandal in the Catholic Church, died on Wednesday….
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.
