Turkish leader’s security officers charged with assault in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have charged a dozen Turkish security and police officers with assault after an attack on protesters in Washington during Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the U.S. capital last month, officials said on…
Fugitive polygamous sect leader captured in South Dakota
(Reuters) – A fugitive leader of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sect, who had been on the run for almost a year, was captured by authorities, officials said on Thursday.
Rodman gives Trump’s ‘The Art of the Deal’ as gift for North Korea’s Kim: AP
SEOUL (Reuters) – Former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman on Thursday gave North Korea’s sports minister a copy of U.S. President Donald Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal” as a gift for the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, the Associated…
U.S. student freed from North Korea has severe brain injury
WYOMING, Ohio (Reuters) – An American university student who was returned to the United States this week after being held in North Korea for 17 months has a severe brain injury and is in a state of “unresponsive wakefulness,” doctors said on Thursday.
U.S. shipping terminal reopens after ‘dirty bomb’ threat
(Reuters) – A terminal at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina will reopen and the safety zone has been lifted, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday, after investigating a threat of a “dirty bomb” on a container ship.
U.S. airline passenger complaints jump 70 percent after incidents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. airline passenger complaints leapt 70 percent in April from a year earlier after a series of high-profile incidents including a passenger being dragged off a United Airlines flight, the government said on Wednesday.
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.
