Elevator scion who defaced Trump’s Hollywood star gets probation
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The elevator company scion who defaced Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during the presidential campaign last autumn pleaded no contest on Tuesday to felony vandalism and received three years’ probation.
U.S. judge blocks Texas plan to cut Planned Parenthood Medicaid funds
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in Austin issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday halting Texas’ plan to cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, saying the state did not present evidence of a program violation that would warrant terminat…
U.S. Homeland Security employees locked out of computer networks: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees in the Washington area and Philadelphia were unable to access some agency computer networks on Tuesday, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
No evidence of shooter at Houston hospital: police
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Police swarmed a Houston hospital on Tuesday after reports of a shooting but found no evidence any weapon had been fired and said no one was injured in the incident.
Firebrand Milo quits Breitbart News after child sex remarks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Provocative far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos resigned on Tuesday as a senior editor of the Breitbart News website after he was vilified and lost a book deal over comments that condoned certain intimate relations between men …
Conservative U.S. justices skeptical in cross-border shooting case
(Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed skepticism about reviving a lawsuit filed by the family of a Mexican teenager against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fatally shot the 15-year-old from across the border in Texas …
Trump issues first public condemnation of anti-Semitic incidents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his first public condemnation of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States on Tuesday after a new spate of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the country and vandalism in a Jew…
North Carolina governor, attorney general seek to end voting law case
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – North Carolina’s Democratic governor and attorney general on Tuesday withdrew a request for a U.S. Supreme Court review of a state voting law struck down last year by an appeals court that found it intentionally discrimi…
White House signals reversal in transgender bathroom policy
(Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday signaled it was preparing to reverse a U.S. policy on transgender rights, raising concern among rights advocates that Republican President Donald Trump is about to revoke a signature initiative of his predecessor….
Americans eat out less as higher menu prices take a bite from restaurant visits: Reuters/Ipsos poll
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A third of U.S. adults are eating out less frequently than three months ago, mostly because of cost, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey that illustrates the challenge for U.S. restaurants seeking to revive traffic after zer…
