About 900 State Department officials sign protest memo: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 900 U.S. State Department officials signed an internal dissent memo protesting a travel ban by U.S. President Donald Trump on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, a source familiar with the document…
Bomb threats target U.S. Jewish centers for third time in a month
NEW YORK (Reuters) – More than a dozen Jewish community centers around the United States and one in Canada received bomb threats on Tuesday, the third wave of threatened attacks against them this month.
Houston’s downtown revamped in time for Super Bowl
HOUSTON (Reuters) – When Houston last hosted the Super Bowl in 2004, the oil city’s sleepy downtown lacked the sizzle befitting the big game – and that prompted civic leaders to act.
Wife of Florida nightclub gunman seeks pretrial release
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, asked a California court on Tuesday to be released from custody pending trial, arguing she had no knowledge of his plans and was asleep as the…
Texas Muslims decry Trump policies at capitol rally in Austin
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – With arms locked and voices joined to sing the U.S. national anthem, more than 1,000 people rallied at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday against Trump administration immigration policies and travel restrictions aimed at seven mostl…
Some Sept. 11 families join criticism of Trump immigration order
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Several relatives of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington criticized President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration on Tuesday, saying they did not want the memories of those killed used to justify ha…
Defense for accused New York bomber Rahimi vows fight over DNA
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for the man accused of injuring 30 people by detonating a bomb in New York City complained that government investigators took a DNA sample from him without his attorneys present and promised a fight to keep that evidence ou…
1,700 residents of Flint, Michigan sue EPA over water crisis
(Reuters) – More than 1,700 residents of Flint, Michigan who say the Environmental Protection Agency mismanaged the water crisis that exposed thousands of children to lead poisoning have sued the U.S. government, seeking class action status for their c…
LGBT advocates scared, despite White House words on equality
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Advocates said on Tuesday they were bracing for moves by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to roll back lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, despite a White House statement vowing to uphold protection for LGB…
New York joins ACLU lawsuit against White House immigration order
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York joined a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s executive order stopping immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States, with state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman calling the order “unconstitutional, unlawful, and fundamentally un-American.”
