Liberal U.S. lawyers, states mull legal fight over Obamacare
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – To stop President Donald Trump from undermining Obamacare, Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is considering an approach that has worked against the administration on immigration: using Trump’s o…
Ballooning bills: More U.S. hospitals pushing patients to pay before care
(Reuters) – Last year, the Henry County Health Center in Iowa started providing patients with a cost estimate along with pre-surgery medical advice.
For families of radicalizing U.S. youth, a help line
BOSTON (Reuters) – Melvin Bledsoe felt helpless as he watched his son transform – becoming distant, converting to Islam and changing his name from Carlos Bledsoe to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad.
Nevada case pitting U.S. against ranchers goes to jury
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A Nevada jury on Thursday began deliberating the fate of six armed supporters of cattle rancher Cliven Bundy in a tense 2014 standoff with federal agents that drew hundreds of protesters and made headlines worldwide.
Mexico to extradite accused gunman to U.S. for ‘Fast and Furious’ slaying
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government said on Thursday it planned to extradite the man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a case tied to the U.S. government’s ill-fated “Fast and Furious” gun-runni…
United States’ first female Muslim judge found dead in Hudson River
(Reuters) – A groundbreaking black jurist who became the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge was found dead in New York’s Hudson River on Wednesday, police said.
Nevada case that pitted U.S. against ranchers wrapping up in closing arguments
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Six followers of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy used “armed force, threats and intimidation” against federal law enforcement officers during a tense 2014 standoff, prosecutors said, wrapping up their conspiracy case against the men o…
U.S. government sued over plan to kill cougars and bears in Colorado
(Reuters) – Wildlife conservation groups sued the U.S. government on Wednesday seeking to halt a plan to trap and kill as many as 120 mountain lions and black bears in Colorado in a bid to stem declines in populations of mule deer favored by hunters.
Denver to pay $1 million to family of girl, 17, slain by police
DENVER (Reuters) – The city of Denver will pay $1 million to the family of a teenage girl who police shot to death two years ago as she sat behind the wheel of a stolen car, both sides said on Wednesday.
Florida police officer arrested in shooting of unarmed black man
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Prosecutors charged a Florida police officer on Wednesday in the shooting last July of an unarmed black man who was seen on cellphone video lying in a street with his hands in the air at the time he was shot in the leg…
