Saudi banks, bin Laden companies face $4.2 billion U.S. lawsuit by 9/11 insurers
NEW YORK/RIYADH (Reuters) – More than two dozen U.S. insurers affiliated with Travelers Cos have sued two Saudi banks, companies affiliated with Osama bin Laden’s family, and several charities for at least $4.2 billion over the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks….
U.S. states’ post-recession reserves shrink: Pew report
(Reuters) – U.S. states are putting less money aside for a financial emergency than they had before the 2007-2009 economic recession, according to a report on Thursday by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Improperly stored raw meat among violations found at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – Undercooled meat, potentially dangerous raw fish and broken coolers were among 13 violations found by restaurant inspectors at Mar-a-Lago, the exclusive Florida resort owned by President Donald Trump, during visits in …
Separate mothers and children: How a Trump threat deterred illegal migrants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has won the first major battle in his war on illegal immigration, and he did it without building his wall.
United passenger dragged from plane has concussion, broken nose: lawyer
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The United Airlines passenger dragged from a plane in Chicago in an incident that sparked international outrage and turned into a corporate public relations nightmare suffered a concussion and broken nose and will likely sue, his at…
U.S. State Department maintains hiring freeze as Tillerson looks to reorganize
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department will maintain a hiring freeze imposed shortly after President Donald Trump took office, even though it was lifted for the rest of the federal government, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters and…
U.S. weather forecaster sees chance of El Niño later this year
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday projected the possibility of closely-watched El Niño phenomenon developing in the Northern Hemisphere late summer or fall.
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.
