Next battleground: An aging Great Lakes pipeline stirs new protest
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – The growing protest movement against U.S. oil and gas pipelines has so far focused on stopping or delaying new construction, with some high-profile successes.
Exclusive: ‘If there’s a shutdown, there’s a shutdown,’ Trump says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of a potential government shutdown on Thursday, just two days shy of a deadline for Congress to reach a spending deal to avert temporary layoffs of federal workers.
Police charge second suspect in Illinois judge’s murder
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Police have charged a second suspect in the murder of an Illinois judge shot outside his home on Chicago’s South Side earlier this month in what they believe was a robbery, officials said on Thursday.
Timeline detailed for New York City bus terminal project
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Thursday laid out a new timeline for its revamped efforts to replace or renovate New York City’s aging main bus terminal in midtown Manhattan.
Florida Senate seeks pardon for wrongly accused ‘Groveland Four’
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida’s Senate on Thursday apologized to the families of four black men wrongly accused of raping a white teenager nearly 70 years ago, and lawmakers called on the state’s governor to issue full pardons.
Number of U.S. visas to citizens of Trump travel ban nations drops
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States issued about 40 percent fewer temporary visas in March to citizens of seven countries covered by President Donald Trump’s temporary travel bans than it did in an average month last year, according to a Reuters a…
Appeals court grants Trump request to delay mercury air pollution case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday granted a request from the Trump administration to put litigation on hold in which states and industry groups are challenging an Obama administration pollution control rule for mercury and other t…
Singapore man sentenced in U.S. for plot to export bomb parts to Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Singaporean man was sentenced on Thursday to 40 months in a U.S. prison for his role in exporting to Iran radio frequency modules, some of which were later found in bombs in Iraq, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement…
United Airlines reaches settlement with passenger dragged from plane
CHICAGO (Reuters) – United Airlines and the passenger who was dragged from a Chicago flight earlier this month have reached a settlement for an undisclosed sum, they said on Thursday, in the carrier’s latest step to contain damage from an incident tha…
Idaho man gets 28 years in beating death of gay man
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – An Idaho man who killed a gay man by kicking him up to 30 times with steel-toed boots was sentenced on Wednesday by a federal judge to 28 years in prison, prosecutors said on Thursday.
