Consumer watchdog, New York state sue cash advance firm
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the state of New York on Tuesday sued a New Jersey company that advances money to people awaiting settlement payouts, accusing it of scamming first responders to the Sept. 11th attacks a…
Melania Trump settles defamation claim against blogger
NEW YORK (Reuters) – First lady Melania Trump has settled a defamation lawsuit for a “substantial sum” against a Maryland blogger who wrote about unsubstantiated rumors she had worked as an escort and falsely said she suffered a breakdown, Trump’s lawy…
Materials found by hikers not data from ’85 Bolivian air crash: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday that materials found by two American hikers in Bolivia do not contain any data from missing data recorders from a plane that crashed in 1985 killing 29 people.
Meteor lights up the night sky over Illinois and Wisconsin
A meteor plummeted in a fireball over Lake Michigan early on Monday, lighting up the night sky in bright blue just before scattering over the lake in many pieces, according to a police video and an expert’s description.
U.S. must go on taking refugees, EU migration chief to say in Washington
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s top migration official will tell the new U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly in Washington on Wednesday that the United States cannot shut its doors on refugees despite President Donald Trump’s orders.
Iranian child seeking emergency eye surgery arrives in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A young Iranian girl in need of emergency eye surgery only available in the United States arrived safely at a New York airport on Monday evening, after a court halted new travel restrictions put in place suddenly last month that th…
U.S. could grant final permit for Dakota pipeline as soon as Friday: government lawyer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army secretary could make a decision on the final permit needed to complete the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline as soon as Friday, the government’s lawyer told a Washington, D.C., court on Monday.
Ex-NBA star Rodman gets three years probation on driving charges
(Reuters) – Former pro basketball star Dennis Rodman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years’ informal probation on Monday on charges that he drove the wrong way on a California highway, forcing another car to swerve into a concrete dividing wa…
Three arrested in ’93 Los Angeles arson fire called deadliest in California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three people with alleged ties to a notorious gang have been arrested in what prosecutors called the deadliest arson in California history, the intentionally set 1993 fire at a Los Angeles apartment building that killed 12 peopl…
Florida man sentenced to 30 years in prison for mosque fire
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida man pleaded no contest and was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison for setting fire last year to the mosque where Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen once worshipped, court officials said.
