U.S. Senate panel unveils budget plan paving way for Trump tax cuts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate panel took President Donald Trump’s proposed tax overhaul a step forward on Friday by unveiling a budget plan for the coming fiscal year that acknowledges lost revenues from tax cuts, while Trump pressed ahead with…
Wisconsin teen in Slenderman stabbing case agrees to plead guilty
(Reuters) – One of two Wisconsin girls who said they stabbed a classmate to satisfy the fictitious horror character Slenderman agreed on Friday to plead guilty to avoid prison time, court documents showed.
U.S. energy chief urges incentives to help coal, nuke power plants
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has asked federal regulators to provide price incentives to help keep coal and nuclear power plants open, as a way to address “risks” to the resilience of the electrical grid, the Department of Energy sai…
Senate panel proposes $1.5 trillion 10-year revenue cut for tax plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate Budget Committee, in a crucial step forward for tax reform legislation, on Friday released a fiscal 2018 budget resolution that would allow tax cuts to lose up to $1.5 trillion in revenue ove…
Trump says Puerto Rico, U.S. government need to confront island’s debt load
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Puerto Rico needs to work with the U.S. government to determine how to fund rebuilding after Hurricane Maria and what to do about the territory’s heavy debt load, President Donald Trump said on Friday.
Nebraska court’s ruling ends beer sales near South Dakota reservation
LINCOLN, Neb. (Reuters) – Nebraska’s Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal involving four stores that wanted to resume beer sales in a small border village near a South Dakota American Indian reservation that has struggled with alcohol abuse prob…
Slurs prompt U.S. Air Force Academy head to call for racial tolerance
(Reuters) – Racial slurs were written in the dormitory of the U.S. Air Force Academy Preparatory School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this week, prompting the head of the institution to tell students, faculty and staff that bigotry would not be tolera…
YRC freight terminal in Puerto Rico resumes limited operations
(Reuters) – YRC Worldwide Inc said on Friday its freight terminal in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico has resumed limited operations and is working to provide service to customers as soon as possible.
Having the right name at the right, or sometimes wrong, time
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When reporters descended on upstate New York to ask about a stunning prison break in 2015, state police spokesman Major Charles Guess took their questions.
Mayor of stricken San Juan hits at U.S. official’s ‘good news’ comment
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The mayor of the capital of Puerto Rico hit back on Friday at the comments of a top U.S. official who said federal efforts to help the territory recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria is “a good news story.”
