Roof scouted South Carolina church before deadly attack: FBI agent
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Dylann Roof visited Charleston, South Carolina, at least six times in the months before he shot and killed nine people in a historic black church there in June 2015, an FBI agent told jurors at Roof’s federal death penalty …
IBM promises to hire Americans as tech executives set to meet Trump
(Reuters) – IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty pledged to hire and train workers in the United States as she and other technology executives prepared to meet on Wednesday with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Tech employees vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims, deport immigrants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 200 employees of technology companies including Alphabet Inc’s Google, Twitter Inc and Salesforce pledged on Tuesday to not help U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration build a data registry to track people b…
Mike Pence look-alike raises money for LGBT charities in Times Square
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New York City’s Times Square has long been famous for its neon advertising, giant billboards and characters dressed up as anything from Mickey Mouse to the Statue of Liberty.
West Coast states to fight climate change even if Trump does not
CORONADO, Calif. (Reuters) – The governors of the three U.S. West Coast states on Tuesday vowed to step up their efforts to fight climate change in the face of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has dismissed global warmin…
U.S. judge to review FBI’s Clinton emails search warrant
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to show him the search warrant application used to enable the FBI to access emails related to Hillary Clinton’s private server that were discovered shortly before the Nov. 8 pres…
British tourist sentenced on weapons charge over Trump rally scare
(Reuters) – A 20-year-old British tourist who prosecutors say caused a security scare at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Las Vegas by trying to wrestle a gun from a police officer was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and a day in prison.
Accused ‘fake-news’ pizza gunman planned raid for days: affidavit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A North Carolina man who opened fire in a Washington pizzeria that fake news reports claimed was operating a child sex ring had planned the raid for days and tried to rally friends to the attack, according to federal court docume…
Authorities say still investigating cause of Oakland warehouse fire
(Reuters) – The cause of a fire at an Oakland warehouse that killed 36 people earlier this month has yet to be determined, federal and local authorities said on Tuesday, amid reports that overloaded electrical lines were to blame.
Arctic air chills parts of U.S. Great Plains, Midwest
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A biting cold blast of arctic air gripped the northern Great Plains and parts of the Midwest on Tuesday, bringing dangerous wind chills and the threat of frostbite, weather officials said.
