U.S. Homeland Security chief: did not hear Trump use vulgarity during meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, under intense questioning from Democratic senators, said on Tuesday she did not hear President Donald Trump use a vulgarity to describe African countries during an impassioned Wh…
Homeland Security chief: did not hear Trump use vulgarity during meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, under intense questioning from Democratic senators, said on Tuesday she did not hear President Donald Trump use a vulgarity to describe African countries during an impassioned Wh…
U.S. government shutdown looms amid harsh immigration exchange
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Partisan finger-pointing over immigration policy on Tuesday left the U.S. Congress and the White House stumbling closer to a possible federal government shutdown by the end of the week, although Wall Street held out hopes for a d…
California hostages were biological children of captors: police
PERRIS, Calif. (Reuters) – The 13 people rescued from captivity in a Southern California home on Sunday were the biological children of their captors, police Captain Gregory Fellows told reporters on Tuesday.
Former Fiat Chrysler exec expected to plead guilty in payments probe: sources
DETROIT (Reuters) – Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV vice president Alphons Iacobelli is expected to plead guilty in connection with a U.S. Justice Department investigation into allegations he made at least $1.2 million in improper payments to a for…
Former Fiat Chrysler exec expected to plead guilty in payments probe: source
DETROIT (Reuters) – Former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV vice president Alphons Iacobelli is expected to plead guilty in connection with a U.S. federal investigation into allegations he made at least $1.2 million in improper payments to a former union v…
U.S. healthcare uninsured rises most in near decade: Gallup
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans without healthcare insurance rose by 3.2 million people between 2016 and 2017, or 1.3 percentage points to 12.2 percent, according to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday, the biggest jump in the uninsured ra…
Widow of Eagles guitarist Frey sues NYC hospital for wrongful death
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The widow of Glenn Frey on Tuesday filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan over its treatment of the former co-lead singer and guitarist for The Eagles before he died in January 2016 at age 67.
Tortured, starved California children rarely seen outside home: neighbors
PERRIS, Calif. (Reuters) – The 13 California siblings who police said were starved and chained to beds by their parents rarely left their disheveled house and, when they did, appeared small and pale and acted strangely, neighbors said.
U.S. top court rejects former New York lawmaker Silver’s appeal
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s bid to avoid a retrial on corruption charges after his 2015 conviction was thrown out by a lower court.
