Trump fills homeland security, environment, China ambassador jobs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked a fossil fuel industry defender as his top environmental official, another retired general as homeland security chief and Iowa’s governor as U.S. ambassador to China in choices at …
Trump says union head who accused him of lying has ‘done a terrible job’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump clashed on Wednesday with a union official who accused the president-elect of lying about the number of jobs saved in a deal to keep air conditioner maker Carrier from moving some jobs from Indiana to Mexico.
U.S. judge reverses order requiring vote recount in Michigan
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Michigan on Wednesday revoked his order requiring a recount of the state’s presidential vote sought by Jill Stein, siding with a state appeals court that found the Green Party candidate had no grounds to mount the challen…
Two juveniles charged with arson in Tennessee wildfires that killed 14
(Reuters) – Two juveniles were charged with arson on Wednesday in connection with the eastern Tennessee wildfires that broke out last month in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in which 14 people died, officials said.
Search completed at Oakland warehouse in fire that killed 36
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Authorities said they concluded their search on Wednesday of a warehouse in Oakland, California, that was gutted by a fast-moving fire that killed 36 people during a dance party.
Florida woman charged with threatening Sandy Hook parent
(Reuters) – A Florida woman accused of making death threats to the parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary school because she believes the 2012 shooting rampage was a hoax has been indicted on federal charges, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
U.S. Republicans quibble over effective date of Obamacare repeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican senators are leaning towards a plan to delay the effective date of an Obamacare repeal for three years, a senior Republican said on Wednesday.
On 75th anniversary, U.S. veterans recall Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
LOS ANGELES/HONOLULU (Reuters) – It has been 75 years but U.S. Navy veteran James Leavelle can still recall watching with horror as Japanese warplanes rained bombs on his fellow sailors in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor that plunged the United Sta…
Survivor of South Carolina church massacre calls Dylann Roof ‘evil’
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – The black South Carolina churchgoers who welcomed Dylann Roof to their Bible study last year thought he was a harmless young man looking for a place to pray, but a survivor of the shooting he is accused of carrying out ther…
John Glenn, former U.S. astronaut, hospitalized: Ohio State official
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former U.S. senator and war hero, has been hospitalized for more than a week, officials said on Wednesday.
