Republican Senator McCain will return Tuesday for healthcare vote
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, who has been recuperating in Arizona after being diagnosed with brain cancer, will return to Washington for a vote on healthcare reform on Tuesday, his office said in a statement on Monday.
Woman admits to killing fiance in kayak incident on Hudson River
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A woman who once reported her fiance missing after his kayak capsized on a frigid Hudson River pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide on Monday, admitting she pulled the plug on his kayak so it would fill with water, prose…
‘Pharma bro’ Shkreli says he will not testify in securities fraud trial
(Reuters) – Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur vilified as the “pharma bro” for raising the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000 percent, said on Monday in federal court that he would not testify in his securities fraud trial.
Wells Fargo asks court to require client information be returned
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co has asked judges in New York and New Jersey to require a lawyer representing a former employee to immediately return reams of client information the bank mistakenly sent to the attorney, a bank spokeswoman said on Monday.
Kansas man gets 30-year sentence for foiled bomb plot targeting U.S. military base
(Reuters) – A Kansas man was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in federal prison for plotting a failed suicide bombing at a U.S. military base on behalf of Islamic State, federal prosecutors said.
Durst kicked man in face at party before wife disappeared: testimony
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Real estate scion Robert Durst, whose ties to three slayings were portrayed in the HBO series “The Jinx,” kicked a man in the face without provocation in 1981, breaking a bone, the man testified on Monday ahead of a highly antic…
Trump pleads with Republicans to roll back Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump made a last-ditch plea to U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday to “do the right thing” and fulfill seven years of campaign promises to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare la…
California teen driver arrested after fatal crash she reportedly livestreamed
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State prosecutors sue EPA over chemical safety rule delay
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A group of 11 Democratic state prosecutors sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to force it to implement rules designed to prevent chemical spills and other industrial accidents at facilities such as refineries a…
Medicaid, pension costs create budget complications for U.S. states: report
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A sluggish forecast for U.S. economic growth as well as an increase in U.S. states’ Medicaid and pension contribution costs is creating a budgetary squeeze in many state capitols, according to a research report issued by S&P Global Ratings on Monday.
