U.S. justices weigh detainee lawsuit against Bush officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared skeptical about allowing legal claims to proceed against former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and others made by non-U.S. citizens, mainly Muslims, swept up after th…
JPMorgan agrees to $55 million settle of mortgage discrimination complaint: source
NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to pay $55 million to settle a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against minority borrowers by allowing mortgage brokers to charge them more for home loans, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
U.S. sues New York City for denying police job to man with HIV
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has sued New York City for revoking an emergency dispatcher job offer it made to a man before he disclosed he had HIV, which the police department said disqualified him from the position.
Obama shortens sentence of Manning, who gave secrets to WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence analyst who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the bi…
Exclusive: Chinese firm withdraws from U.S. effort to fight college application fraud
LONDON (Reuters) – A major Chinese education company that was subsidizing a project to verify transcripts of Chinese students applying to U.S. colleges has pulled out after Reuters reported that the firm itself stands accused of widespread application …
Virginia inmate facing execution argues against drug ‘cocktail’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Virginia inmate set to be executed on Wednesday for murdering two young sisters during a 2006 killing spree has asked the Supreme Court for a stay, arguing that the first-ever use of compounded lethal drugs violates his constit…
U.S. Secret Service settles race discrimination case with black agents
(Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service has agreed to pay $24 million to settle a 17-year-old federal lawsuit filed by a group of black agents who accused the agency of racial discrimination in its employment practices.
Florida nightclub gunman’s wife charged with helping husband
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, appeared in court on Tuesday, accused of committing a crime by assisting her husband ahead of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. his…
New York governor wants to spend more on education, lower taxes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday proposed a $152.3 billion all-funds state budget for fiscal 2018 that would increase education funding by $1 billion and cut tax rates for 6 million middle-class residents, extending a “mil…
Woman sues Trump in New York for defamation over sexual assault denial
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – One of about a dozen women who previously accused President-elect Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances filed a lawsuit against him in New York on Tuesday, alleging he had made false and defamatory statements about her…
