New Orleans removes first of four statues deemed racially offensive
(Reuters) – New Orleans on Monday removed a statue that the mayor said glorified a 19th-century attack on police by white supremacists, the first of four monuments that the city will relocate to send a message of “diversity, inclusion and tolerance.”
U.S. top court preserves Alabama campaign finance curbs
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by an Alabama black-voter outreach group with close ties to the state’s Democratic Party of a lower court’s ruling that upheld a state ban on cash transfers between political actio…
Notes found by ex-NFL star Hernandez’s body turned over to family
BOSTON (Reuters) – Three handwritten notes found by the body of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez following his suicide in a Massachusetts prison cell last week were handed over to his family on Monday, an official said.
Trump pushes Democrats on border wall as government shutdown looms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump tried to press Democrats on Monday to include funds for his controversial border wall with Mexico in spending legislation as lawmakers worked to avoid a looming shutdown of the federal government.
St. Louis wins U.S. approval to explore airport privatization
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday it has granted preliminary approval to St. Louis to explore putting its city-owned airport under private management.
Arkansas carries out first double execution in U.S. since 2000
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Arkansas carried out back-to-back executions on Monday night, administering lethal injections to two men convicted of rape and murder to become the first U.S. state to put more than one inmate to death on the same day in 1…
Toddler among five dead in New York house fire
(Reuters) – Five people, including a 2-year-old toddler and two other children, died on Sunday in a house fire in the New York City borough of Queens, the city’s deadliest such blaze in two years, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Trump condemns anti-Semitism on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said anti-Semitism should be defeated and called the Holocaust the “darkest chapter of human history” in a video address on Sunday, following two missteps by his administration regarding statements abo…
Trump pressures Democrats on Obamacare to get border wall deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump put pressure on Democrats on Sunday as U.S. lawmakers worked to avoid a government shutdown, saying Obamacare would die without a cash infusion the White House has offered in exchange for their agreement to…
Florida evacuation orders lifted as rain quells wildfires
(Reuters) – Florida officials on Sunday lifted evacuation orders for about 2,000 homes threatened by wildfires in drought-stricken central and southwestern parts of the state, after rainfall helped firefighters battle the blazes.
