From Beyonce to Clooney, stars unite for hurricane relief telethon
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A cadre of Hollywood celebrities gave passionate speeches, moving performances and hit the phones on Tuesday at a live televised telethon to raise funds for the survivors and victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Key U.S. senators reach deal on funding children’s health program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee said on Tuesday they reached an agreement to finance a federal insurance program for millions of lower-income children and pregnant women that was due to expire at the end of the month…
Supreme Court allows broad Trump refugee ban
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to broadly implement a ban on refugees entering the country from around the world.
Floridians assess Irma’s wreckage as death toll mounts
ISLAMORADA, Fla. (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma evacuees from the Florida Keys began returning to the storm-ravaged island chain on Tuesday to find homes ripped apart and businesses coated in seaweed amid a debris-strewn landscape where an estimated 25 per…
Killer of eight in Texas shooting was estranged husband of one victim
DALLAS (Reuters) – A man who shot to death eight people at a Dallas-area house party before he was killed by police was identified on Tuesday as the estranged husband of one of the victims.
Seattle mayor resigns in face of latest sexual abuse accusations
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned on Tuesday after months of accusations that he committed child sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.
After Irma, a mixed journey home for Florida evacuees
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – After fleeing homes in Hurricane Irma’s path several days ago, Florida residents Lee Tinkler and Mercedes Lopez on Tuesday faced far different prospects as they departed from the Orlando hotels where they sought refuge.
No federal charges for Baltimore cops in Freddie Gray’s death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice will not bring charges against Baltimore police officers over the fatal injury of a black man in custody in an incident that stoked tensions between African Americans and law enforcement, federal of…
Shkreli apologizes for placing bounty on Hillary Clinton’s hair
(Reuters) – Former drug company executive Martin Shkreli on Tuesday apologized for a Facebook post that offered his followers a $5,000 reward for obtaining a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair, a post that led U.S. prosecutors to ask that he be jailed wh…
U.S. gay marriage pioneer Edith Windsor dies at 88
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Edith Windsor, the New York woman whose successful challenge to a federal law that defined marriage as between one man and one woman helped pave the way for gay marriage nationwide, died on Tuesday at age 88.
