Trump administration proposes rollback of tip-pooling rule
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday proposed eliminating an Obama administration rule that allowed restaurant employees to keep their tips instead of being forced to share them with non-tipped workers, saying the rule had contributed to…
Trump outlines big cuts to Utah monuments, riling tribes, environmentalists
WASHINGTON/SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump announced big cuts to Utah’s sprawling wilderness national monuments on Monday, angering tribes and environmental groups that want to keep the areas off limits to development.
ACLU sues to block Nebraska executions, challenges governor
(Reuters) – A new lawsuit says the 11 men on Nebraska’s death row cannot be executed because a voter referendum backed by Governor Pete Ricketts to overturn a 2015 repeal of capital punishment failed to restore their death sentences.
Six-year-old skeptic tells Santa ‘your life is empty’
(Reuters) – A 6-year-old boy from the Washington area has shaken up social media with an all-too-skeptical letter to Santa Claus in which he pretends to know jolly Saint Nick’s life is empty and that Santa had no idea whether he had been naughty or nic…
Judge to weigh sentence for South Carolina ex-policeman who killed black man
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors said on Monday that a white former South Carolina policeman caught on video shooting an unarmed black man in the back committed murder, while defense lawyers argued their client did not deserve to go to pri…
Turkish banker says U.S. prosecutors withheld evidence
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for a banker at Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank who is charged with scheming to violate U.S. sanctions against Iran accused U.S. prosecutors of withholding evidence that might help exculpate their client. They said this inclu…
U.S. judge orders oil-spill response plan for Dakota Access Pipeline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered Energy Transfer Partners LP to coordinate with local tribes and the Army Corps of Engineers to create an oil-spill response plan for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline by next April, a decision he sa…
Massachusetts Senate president steps aside as husband faces probe
BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts Senate President Stan Rosenberg is taking a temporary leave of absence as his husband faces allegations that he used his political connections to sexually harass men.
U.S. justices lean toward allowing sports betting in New Jersey case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday signaled a willingness to let New Jersey and potentially other states legalize sports betting, a lucrative source of revenue for state coffers that has been barred in most places.
Former U.S. Rep. Brown of Florida sentenced to five years for fraud: report
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Former U.S. Representative Corrine Brown of Florida was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for her role in helping raise more than $800,000 for a bogus charity that was used as a slush fund, a Jacksonville tel…
