EPA ends sponsorship of climate leadership program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will no longer sponsor an awards program honoring voluntary corporate actions to combat global warming, it announced on Friday, the agency’s latest move to undo Obama-era climate change pr…
Arkansas governor to spare inmate previously set to die in April
(Reuters) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson declared on Friday that he intended to grant clemency to a death row inmate who was among four of eight prisoners in the state whose scheduled April executions were halted by court orders.
Macedonian charged in U.S. with selling card data pleads guilty
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Macedonian citizen charged in the United States with operating a website called Codeshop that authorities say was used to sell stolen credit card data pleaded guilty on Friday, U.S. prosecutors said.
‘Worthless’ Subway ‘Footlong’ sandwich settlement is thrown out: U.S. court
(Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday threw out a class-action settlement intended to resolve claims that the Subway sandwich chain deceived customers by selling “Footlong” subs that were less than a foot long.
U.S. towns that want to shed Confederate symbols hit bureaucratic roadblocks
(Reuters) – As early as November, the stretch of Jefferson Davis Highway that runs through Alexandria, Virginia, will boast a new title after the city council voted to erase the name of the Confederacy’s president.
South Carolina governor bans abortion funding, hits healthcare
(Reuters) – South Carolina’s governor has ordered a ban on all state funding for abortion providers in a move Planned Parenthood on Friday called “political” and an attack on patients’ access to preventive healthcare.
U.S. sentences ex-Guinea minister to seven years in prison for laundering bribes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Guinea government minister was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday following his conviction of laundering $8.5 million in bribes that U.S. prosecutors say he took in exchange for helping a Chinese conglomerate sec…
GM says small number of Chevy Bolts face battery issue
(Reuters) – General Motors Co said on Friday it had informed a small number of owners of its Chevrolet Bolt electric cars about a battery problem that could cause a loss of propulsion.
VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) – A federal judge in Detroit sentenced former engineer James Liang to 40 months in prison on Friday for his role in Volkswagen AG’s multiyear scheme to sell diesel cars that generated more pollution than U.S. clean air rul…
Kansas City takes down Confederate monument after vandalism
(Reuters) – Municipal workers in Kansas City, Missouri, on Friday started dismantling a Confederate memorial that was vandalized earlier this month, the latest move to take down a Civil War symbol amid a fierce debate about race and the legacy of slave…
