Pipeline fight hangs over White House tribal summit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration will soon ask federal agencies to require that Native American treaty rights be considered in decision-making on natural resource projects, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said on Monday, hoping to avoid …
New Jersey’s Atlantic City water utility to buy old airstrip for $100 million
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Reuters) – Atlantic City, New Jersey’s fiscally distressed gambling hub, stands to gain $100 million by selling a defunct municipal airstrip to the city’s quasi-independent public water utility, Mayor Don Guardian and other officia…
Jury selection begins in U.S. case against church shooter
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Several hundred people reported to the U.S. courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday for the start of jury selection in the death penalty case against a white man who shot dead nine black parishioners in a church…
Three Mississippi River locks may close due to flood: Army Corps
(Reuters) – Flooding on the Mississippi River is likely to close three locks on the grain shipping waterway from southern Iowa to northern Missouri later this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday.
California man faces sentencing as would-be Islamic State recruit
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California man that federal prosecutors described as a would-be recruit for Islamic State militants faced sentencing on Monday for his conviction on charges he sought to join the group in Syria and engaged in bank fraud to sup…
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, braces for flooding as river expected to crest
(Reuters) – Emergency crews have erected nearly 10 miles (16 km) of temporary flood barricades and laid a quarter-million sandbags in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as residents braced on Monday for what could be the second-largest flood in the city’s history, of…
Charlotte protesters march for sixth night despite shooting video release
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) – A couple hundred demonstrators chanted and marched through Charlotte on Sunday, as protests persisted after the release of two videos showing the fatal shooting of a black man by police officers in North Carolina’s largest c…
Baseball world mourns boating death of Miami Marlins star Fernandez
MIAMI (Reuters) – Miami Marlins star Jose Fernandez, one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League Baseball and a hero to Miami’s Cuban community, was killed in a boating crash early on Sunday in Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard said. He was 24 years …
Charlotte protests diminish early on Friday as family views video
(Reuters) – Largely peaceful protests dwindled early on Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina, as police chose not to enforce a curfew prompted by two nights of riots that engulfed the city after a black man was shot to death by a police officer.
Parent bloggers question role in Mylan’s EpiPen schools push
CHICAGO (Reuters) – When Mylan NV recruited food allergy bloggers to learn about its campaign to get allergic shock antidotes into schools, many were eager to join the maker of the EpiPens they carry in purses and stash in book bags to protect their ch…
