Virginia Republicans seek to block governor’s voting rights restoration
(Reuters) – Virginia Republican leaders said they will file a contempt motion on Wednesday against Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe over his efforts to restore voting rights to about 206,000 felons.
Amtrak gets partial victory in U.S. appeal over Sandy insurance
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amtrak secured a partial U.S. appellate court win on Wednesday in its efforts to recoup insurance coverage after the railroad service sustained more than $1 billion in losses during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
McCain, Rubio win Republican nod in U.S. Senate races
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. senators John McCain and Marco Rubio won their party’s nominations on Tuesday to seek re-election in Arizona and Florida in November, as both of the high profile politicians defeated insurgent challengers.
Novartis bid to sell new biosimilar crimped by U.S. court battles
ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis has won U.S. approval for a copy of Amgen’s blockbuster arthritis drug Enbrel, but the Swiss drugmaker’s bid to muscle in on the medicine’s $4.7 billion in annual U.S. revenue remains blocked by court battles.
New Jersey Governor Christie vetoes minimum wage hike to $15/hr
(Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Tuesday vetoed a bill to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next five years.
Five Chicago officers face firing over slaying of black teen
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The chief of Chicago’s police department recommended on Tuesday that five officers be fired over their role in the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager, an incident that heaped national scrutiny on the nation’s second largest pol…
Senators press Mylan on ‘exorbitantly expensive’ EpiPen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Elizabeth Warren and 19 other U.S. senators voiced concern to the chief executive of Mylan NV about the high cost of its EpiPen on Tuesday, calling the device used in the case of life-threatening allergies “exorbitantly…
Several injured after ferry strikes New York kayakers
(Reuters) – Several people were injured, at least one of them seriously, when a ferry struck a group of kayakers off a Manhattan pier on Tuesday evening, officials said.
Brush fire prompts evacuation of 700 people east of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A “human-caused” brush fire flared quickly out of control and prompted the evacuation of some 700 people on Tuesday from a mobile home park and nearby community in Southern California’s Riverside County, state fire officials sai…
Three new cases of local Zika transmission in Florida: officials
(Reuters) – Florida health officials on Tuesday said they were investigating three new Zika virus cases likely stemming from local mosquito bites in Miami-Dade County, including two cases outside of the known areas of active transmission.
