Senator says Labor Dept dismantled website for Wells Fargo workers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren on Friday accused the U.S. Labor Department of dismantling a website designed to help Wells Fargo workers file whistleblower retaliation and other complaints against the bank after Donald Trump…
Arkansas governor signs abortion law banning common procedure
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed into law on Thursday a bill banning the most common abortion procedure employed in the second trimester of a pregnancy, among the most restrictive abortion legislation in the United …
Red tape chokes off drilling on Native American reservations
FORT BERTHOLD, North Dakota (Reuters) – When the U.S. oil boom hit North Dakota a decade ago, wells sprang up quickly on the edges of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, an expanse of prairie and rolling hills three times larger than Los Angeles.
Super Bowl glare fixes attention on Texas ‘bathroom bill’
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – As Houston readies to host the Super Bowl, a push by lawmakers in Texas to restrict bathroom access for transgender people is raising fears the state may be unable to score future major sporting events and could lose champions…
Texas executes man convicted of killing two in 2002 robbery
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas inmate was executed on Thursday for killing two sandwich shop employees during a robbery in 2002 after the Supreme Court denied appeals that argued he was not the trigger man and his case was tainted by prosecutorial m…
Illinois attorney general asks judge to stop paying workers
(Reuters) – The attorney general of Illinois asked a judge on Thursday to lift an order requiring state workers to be paid during the state’s record 19-month budget impasse in hopes of putting pressure on lawmakers to pass a spending plan.
San Bernardino massacre yields second immigration fraud conviction
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Russian-born wife of the California man accused of supplying guns used by another couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal immigration fraud charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said…
Florida airport shooting suspect indicted on 22 criminal counts
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – A federal grand jury has indicted on 22 criminal counts an Iraq war veteran suspected of killing five people in a mass shooting at a Florida airport this month, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
Georgia police chief to apologize for black man’s 1940 lynching
ATLANTA (Reuters) – The police chief of a small Georgia city will publicly apologize on Thursday for the lynching of a young black man almost 77 years ago, an official gesture historians say is rare in the U.S. South.
Chicago school audit pegs FY 2016 deficit at $487 million
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) ended its last fiscal year with a bigger-than-expected deficit and will need to find new revenue or make major spending cuts in order to sustain operations over the long term, according to the distri…
