EPA nominee will review vehicle emissions rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Wednesday he will review the Obama administration’s recent decision to lock in fuel efficienc…
U.S. Supreme Court justices fret over offensive trademarks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Supreme Court justices walked a tightrope on Wednesday over government approval of offensive trademarks, expressing concern about endorsing racial slurs in brands and slogans while also worrying about protecting only positive wor…
Ex-president George H.W. Bush moved to intensive care; wife hospitalized
(Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been moved to an intensive-care unit at a Houston hospital with pneumonia and was stable and resting comfortably after doctors performed a procedure to clear his airway, his office said on Wednesda…
Wife of Florida nightclub gunman pleads not guilty to aiding attack
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – The wife of the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges she assisted him ahead of the fatal shooting of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida and later mislea…
EPA ‘water transfers’ rule revived by U.S. appeals court
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A divided U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived an Environmental Protection Agency rule permitting government agencies to transfer water between different bodies, such as rivers and lakes, without needing to safeguard for polluti…
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 …
