Stifel, ex-executive settle SEC case over Wisconsin school investments
(Reuters) – Stifel Financial Corp’s brokerage unit and an ex-executive have agreed to pay $24.6 million to resolve claims arising from the sale of risky investment products to five Wisconsin school districts ahead of the financial crisis of 2008.
Somali-American Minnesota state representative says harassed by DC cabbie
(Reuters) – A recently elected Minnesota state representative who is the first Somali-born person to hold that office said on social media that she had been harassed for her Muslim religion and headscarf while riding in a Washington, D.C. taxicab.
U.S. transgender people harassed in public restrooms: landmark survey
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Almost 60 percent of transgender Americans have avoided using public restrooms for fear of confrontation, saying they have been harassed and assaulted, according to the largest survey taken of transgender people in the United Stat…
Trump fills homeland security, environment, China ambassador jobs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday picked a fossil fuel industry defender as his top environmental official, another retired general as homeland security chief and Iowa’s governor as U.S. ambassador to China in choices at …
Trump says union head who accused him of lying has ‘done a terrible job’
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump clashed on Wednesday with a union official who accused the president-elect of lying about the number of jobs saved in a deal to keep air conditioner maker Carrier from moving some jobs from Indiana to Mexico.
U.S. judge reverses order requiring vote recount in Michigan
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Michigan on Wednesday revoked his order requiring a recount of the state’s presidential vote sought by Jill Stein, siding with a state appeals court that found the Green Party candidate had no grounds to mount the challen…
Two juveniles charged with arson in Tennessee wildfires that killed 14
(Reuters) – Two juveniles were charged with arson on Wednesday in connection with the eastern Tennessee wildfires that broke out last month in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in which 14 people died, officials said.
Search completed at Oakland warehouse in fire that killed 36
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Authorities said they concluded their search on Wednesday of a warehouse in Oakland, California, that was gutted by a fast-moving fire that killed 36 people during a dance party.
Florida woman charged with threatening Sandy Hook parent
(Reuters) – A Florida woman accused of making death threats to the parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook Elementary school because she believes the 2012 shooting rampage was a hoax has been indicted on federal charges, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
U.S. Republicans quibble over effective date of Obamacare repeal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Republican senators are leaning towards a plan to delay the effective date of an Obamacare repeal for three years, a senior Republican said on Wednesday.
