U.S. program for Afghan translators in jeopardy as visa supply runs low
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it will soon run out of visas for interpreters and other Afghans who have worked for the U.S. government during the decade and a half that U.S. forces have been engaged in the country.
In Missouri, poor defendants wait months in jail for lawyers: ACLU
(Reuters) – Missouri’s system for providing lawyers to represent poor people accused of crimes is so under-funded that defendants wait months for an attorney and plead guilty in cases they could easily have won, a lawsuit filed Thursday said.
Boston St. Patrick’s parade organizers deny banning gay marchers
BOSTON (Reuters) – Organizers of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade denied on Thursday that they told a gay veterans’ group its members could not march openly in one of the largest U.S. celebrations of the holiday and accused the group of breaking parad…
Bird flu strikes Tennessee chickens again, in a less-dangerous form
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A commercial flock of 17,000 chickens in Tennessee has been culled after becoming infected with low-pathogenic bird flu, state agricultural officials said on Thursday, days after a more dangerous form of the disease killed poultry i…
U.S. Appeals court grapples with labor board ‘joint employment’ test
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A California waste management company on Thursday asked a U.S. appeals court to overturn a contentious labor board decision on “joint employment” that could make it easier to hold companies accountable for the labor practices of …
Washington restaurant sues Trump over alleged unfair hotel competition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Washington restaurant has sued U.S. President Donald Trump and the company that operates his landmark Washington hotel, claiming that patrons have shifted business there to curry favor with his new administration, the owners sa…
Kansas man in ‘get out of my country’ shooting of Indian man appears in court
OLATHE, Kansas (Reuters) – A Kansas man accused of killing an Indian software engineer and shooting two other people while shouting “get out of my country” appeared in Johnson County Circuit Court on Thursday as lawyers worked out a schedule for his up…
Jewish Children’s Museum in New York evacuated for bomb threat
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Jewish Children’s Museum in New York City was evacuated for a few hours on Thursday after it received a bomb threat by email, police said, the latest in a rash of recent threats to U.S. and Canadian Jewish organizations.
Second House panel approves Obamacare replacement plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system passed through a second congressional panel on Thursday, despite controversy among lawmakers, hospitals and insurers about its unknown cost…
More states seek to halt Trump’s new travel ban in court
(Reuters) – Several states said on Thursday they would move forward with legal challenges to a revised executive order signed by President Donald Trump this week that temporarily bars the admission of refugees and some travelers from a group of Muslim-…
