LGBT advocates seek to label opponents as U.S. hate groups
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A liberal coalition on Thursday started a campaign to label socially conservative organizations that oppose transgender rights as hate groups, ratcheting up the antagonism between opposing sides on one of America’s most contentious…
U.S. top court leaves intact ruling against Central America asylum seekers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a turbulent debate over illegal immigration on Monday, turning away an appeal by a group of asylum-seeking Central American women and their children who aimed to clarify the constitutional right…
Trump appointee Gorsuch energetic in first U.S. high court arguments
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s appointee Neil Gorsuch on Monday showed himself to be a frequent and energetic questioner during U.S. Supreme Court arguments in his first day hearing cases as a justice, at one point even apologizing for…
United Air removes couple traveling to wedding from plane
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An engaged couple were removed from a United Airlines flight to Costa Rica on Saturday, as the airline remained under scrutiny following outrage caused by a video last week of a passenger being forcibly removed from a flight.
Cleveland police seek man they say broadcast killing on Facebook
(Reuters) – Cleveland police urged a suspect who they said posted video of himself on Facebook killing an elderly man on Sunday to turn himself in to authorities.
Massachusetts police arrest suspect in jogger’s murder
(Reuters) – Massachusetts police have arrested a man in connection with the August killing of woman who had been out jogging in the woods, a case that closely resembled a second daylight murder in New York City less than a week earlier.
Nine wounded in shooting at Ohio party hall
(Reuters) – Nine people were wounded by gunfire on Sunday at an after-hours club in Columbus, Ohio, with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening, police said.
Three dead in Colorado mountain home in apparent triple homicide
DENVER (Reuters) – Two men and a woman were found dead from traumatic injuries inside a mountain home in Colorado on Saturday in a suspected triple homicide, police said.
Sister of Celtics’s guard Thomas dies in car accident
(Reuters) – The sister of Boston Celtics guard Isaiah Thomas died in a car accident early on Saturday.
Trump supporters, opponents clash in California park
BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters) – A melee erupted on Saturday in a Berkeley, California park where supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump were holding competing rallies, resulting in at least 20 arrests as police struggled to keep the two camps…
