Skeptical lawmakers pressure Comey on Trump wiretap claim
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A key Republican congressman said on Wednesday he has seen no evidence that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign, adding pressure to FBI Director James Comey to provide evidence su…
GM will rehire 500 Michigan workers slated for layoffs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Motors Co plans next year to rehire 500 Michigan assembly plant workers who are to be laid off in May, citing increased demand for larger vehicles, the company said on Wednesday.
Three airmen killed in U.S. Air Force plane crash in New Mexico
(Reuters) – Three airmen were killed when their surveillance plane crashed during a military training flight in New Mexico, a U.S. Air Force official said on Wednesday.
U.S. wildfires ravage ranches in three states
LIPSCOMB, Texas (Reuters) – When the Schwerzenbach family saw a wildfire racing toward their remote ranch in Lipscomb, Texas, there was no time to run.
Hawaii judge halts Trump’s new travel ban before it can go into effect
HONOLULU/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Just hours before President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was set to go into effect, a U.S. federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued an emergency halt to the order’s implementation.
Trump’s budget cuts to domestic, aid programs draw Republican scorn
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s first budget outline, calling for a security-heavy realignment of federal spending, drew resistance on Thursday from his fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress as many balked at proposed deep cuts to dip…
In conservative America, small cities stand up for LGBT rights
WHEELING, W.Va. (Reuters) – When Mike Lujano and George Lenz hoisted a rainbow flag outside their business in a Victorian brownstone on Market Street two decades ago, they found that few neighbors in socially conservative Wheeling, West Virginia, knew …
Flight cancellations persist as storm weakens in U.S. Northeast
(Reuters) – A late-season snowstorm that swept the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States began to weaken on Wednesday after killing six people and closing schools, but airline cancellations persisted.
Iditarod winner is oldest, fastest in dog sled race history
(Reuters) – Mitch Seavey won the 2017 Iditarod dog sled race on Tuesday, beating his son and crossing the finish line in Nome in record time as he also set the mark as the oldest musher to claim the championship.
U.S. judge denies tribe’s request to stop oil flow in Dakota Access pipeline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by a Native American tribe for an emergency injunction to prevent oil from flowing through part of the Dakota Access Pipeline, saying such a move would be against the public intere…
