In Puerto Rico, pensions’ decline pits retirees against lenders
(Reuters) – As Puerto Rico attempts to sort out its tangled financial web, retirees may face bigger cuts than those in past U.S. municipal insolvencies, due in part to an unconventional debt structure that pits pensioners against the very lenders whose…
Transgender teenage wrestler wins Texas state championship
(Reuters) – Mack Beggs, a 17-year-old high school wrestler who is transitioning from female to male, took home gold in the 110-weight class of the Texas girls state championship after the state refused to allow the student to compete against boys.
Tests show driver in Mardi Gras crash was legally drunk, police say
(Reuters) – A driver accused of injuring 28 people in New Orleans after plowing a pickup truck into a crowd watching a Mardi Gras parade had a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit soon after the crash, police said on Sunday.
Magician’s death by hanging in Hollywood ruled accidental by coroner
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The death of a world-class magician found hanged in his dressing room at a popular Hollywood nightclub called the Magic Castle was ruled an accident on Saturday by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Department, an agency …
South Carolina Republican’s town hall starts rowdy, ends peaceably
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Tim Scott faced a quandary on Saturday in hosting his town hall: he promised to meet with his South Carolina constituents, but he wanted to avoid the kind of adversarial free-for-all so many Republicans e…
Democrats pick Perez to lead party against Trump
ATLANTA (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as chairman on Saturday, choosing a veteran of the Obama administration to lead the daunting task of rebuilding the party and heading the opposition to Republican President Don…
Kuwait could pay up to $60,000 for party at Trump Hotel in Washington
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – This February 25 story was corrected to show that the event took place on Wednesday, not Saturday. Corrects reference to event in second paragraph to past tense from present tense. Corrects paragraph 5 to clarify that ambassador …
Dakota protesters regroup, plot resistance to other pipelines
CANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) – Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline who were pushed out of their protest camp this week have vowed to keep up efforts to stop the multibillion-dollar project and take the fight to other pipelines as well.
Wisconsin man jailed for cutting off woman’s pinky finger: media
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A Wisconsin man was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Friday for cutting off a woman’s pinky finger with a machete and trying to close the wound with a blow torch during a ceremony for a fellow fan of a hip hop band…
Groups appeal decision that upheld U.S. rule on retirement advice
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five U.S. financial services groups on Friday appealed a federal court decision handed down earlier this month that upheld an Obama-era rule designed to avoid conflicts of interests when brokers give retirement advice.
