California air base under lockdown due to ‘security incident’
(Reuters) – Officials at Travis Air Force Base in California have advised people there to “shelter in place” during a “real world security incident,” according to official social media posts issued on Wednesday afternoon.
Federal judge orders more environmental analysis of Dakota pipeline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider its environmental review of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Wednesday, opening up the possibility that the line could be shut at a later date.
U.S. arrests nearly 200 Iraqis in deportation sweep
DETROIT (Reuters) – U.S. immigration authorities have arrested and moved to deport 199 Iraqi immigrants, mostly from the Detroit area, in the last three weeks after Iraq agreed to accept deportees as part of a deal removing it from President Donald Tru…
New Mexican-U.S. beer mocks Trump as frowning mariachi
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican and U.S. brewers have reinvented U.S. President Donald Trump as a gun-slinging mariachi folk musician to promote a new beer celebrating cross-border cooperation.
Black Lives Matter sues for court oversight of Chicago police reforms
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Members of Black Lives Matter and other groups sued the city of Chicago on Wednesday, seeking to force federal court oversight of reforms to the police department, which has been accused of using excessive force against minorities.
Trump administration amends travel ban date to keep legal battle alive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to amend the starting date of its proposed 90-day travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority countries in a bid to keep its legal battle alive.
Exclusive: U.S., Mexico, Slim charity to work on Central America crime, migration
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The United States, Mexico and three Central American nations will this week unveil plans to work with billionaire Carlos Slim’s charity to tackle crime in Central America and find new ways of slowing migration, according to a dr…
Scalise in critical condition after attack by gunman at baseball field
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – Congressman Steve Scalise, the No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, was in critical condition on Wednesday night after he and three others were shot as they practiced for a charity baseball game.
Shots fired outside Barclays Center in Brooklyn, one injured
NEW YORK (Reuters) – One man was shot outside a shopping center near a major sports arena in New York City on Wednesday but it was not immediately clear who opened fire or how badly the victim was hurt, police said.
Harvard’s first female president to step down next year
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – Harvard University President Drew Faust, the first woman to serve in that post in the elite Ivy League school’s 380-year history, plans to step down from her role at the end of the next academic year, she said on Wednesday….
