USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday that an internal email sent to staff at its Agricultural Research Service unit this week calling for a suspension of “public-facing documents,” including news releases and photos, was flawed and that new guidance would be issued to replace it.
Toyota Motor to add 400 jobs at Indiana assembly plant
TOKYO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp on Tuesday said it would add 400 jobs to build more SUVs at one of its U.S. plants, highlighting its expansion plans just as U.S. President Donald Trump calls on manufacturers to build more cars in the co…
Families of New York’s unclaimed dead get more access to graves
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Relatives of people buried at a New York City island that serves as the largest mass grave in the United States will have increased access to the cemetery under a modified lawsuit settlement announced on Tuesday.
Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush recovering from pneumonia
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, who has been in a Houston hospital for 10 days with pneumonia, is improving and has been sitting up, talking with physicians and returning phone calls, a spokesman for his office said on…
Gun rights activists sue Massachusetts over assault weapons ban
BOSTON (Reuters) – Gun rights advocates have sued Massachusetts over the state’s ban on assault weapons, saying that a crackdown begun last year on “copycat” assault rifles is a vague and unconstitutional violation of gun ownership rights.
Court appeal argues California emissions trading plan akin to ‘illegal tax’
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Parties in a four-year-old legal challenge to California’s emissions trading program will head to court in Sacramento on Tuesday with a business group arguing the billions the program collected amounts to an “illegal tax” on b…
Ex-Guinea minister pleads not guilty in U.S. to laundering bribes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former minister of mines in Guinea pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he laundered $8.5 million in bribes he received from a Chinese conglomerate to help it secure mining rights in the West African country.
Microsoft victory in overseas email seizure case is upheld
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An equally divided federal appeals court refused to reconsider its landmark decision forbidding the U.S. government from forcing Microsoft Corp and other companies to turn over customer emails stored on servers outside the United S…
U.S. deficit to shrink to $559 billion in fiscal year 2017: CBO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. budget deficit is expected to dip in fiscal year 2017 but expand later in the decade, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a report on Tuesday that showed President Donald Trump inheriting a tricky long-te…
Minnesota governor collapses while addressing legislators
(Reuters) – Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton collapsed on Monday while delivering his state-of-the-state address to legislators in St. Paul, but aides said afterward that Dayton quickly recovered from what they described as a fainting spell and returned …
