U.S. lawmakers urge Trump to ‘get to work’ on Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop sniping at Puerto Ricans and get to work helping them recover from a devastating hurricane, two days before he was to visit the island, where people remaine…
In Puerto Rico, acute shortages plunge the masses into survival struggle
FAJARDO, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Brian Jimenez had burned through dwindling supplies of scarce gasoline on a 45-minute drive in search of somewhere to fill his grandmother’s blood thinner prescription. He ended up in Fajardo, a scruffy town of strip malls on Puerto Rico’s northeastern tip, where a line of 400 waited outside a Walmart.
O.J. Simpson walks out of Nevada prison after serving nine years for robbery
(Reuters) – O.J. Simpson, acquitted of the 1994 murder of his ex-wife and her friend after the “Trial of the Century,” was released early on Sunday from a prison in Nevada, where he had been held since 2008 for a botched armed robbery at a Las Vegas ca…
Trump defends federal response in Puerto Rico as criticism mounts
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday his government was doing a “great job” to help Puerto Rico recover from Hurricane Maria and took a new swipe at critics who said he had been slow to aid the island, whose powe…
Three Miami Dolphins players defy Trump order to stand during anthem
LONDON (Reuters) – Three Miami Dolphins players knelt for the American national anthem before their NFL game in London on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump had said the previous day that it was “very important” that players stood.
Can’t guarantee tax cut for entire middle class: Mnuchin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said one of the top goals of the Trump administration’s tax plan is to help the middle class, but he could not guarantee that every middle-class family would receive a tax cut.
Some NFL players kneel again despite Trump’s fresh call for protests to end
LONDON (Reuters) – Some National Football League players knelt again on Sunday when the U.S. national anthem was played before a game in London, defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed call to end their protest over racial injustice.
Connecticut’s deep spending cuts in effect as new deadline passes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Connecticut’s fiscal crisis hit a new low on Sunday, when scheduled spending cuts dramatically lowered state aid for many municipalities, with no budget in sight three months after it was due.
U.S. defense personnel numbers rise, refugee numbers drop in Puerto Rico: governor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department has sent 1,800 additional personnel to Puerto Rico since Friday, bringing the total to 6,400, the island’s governor said at a Sunday news conference where he provided updates on the recovery from Hurri…
U.S. Treasury chief says planned tax cuts will not benefit wealthy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday dismissed suggestions that the Trump administration’s proposed tax cuts would benefit wealthy Americans at the expense of middle-income people.
