Kansas asks U.S. appeals court to reinstate strict voter ID rule
DENVER (Reuters) – Kansas on Tuesday asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate rules requiring proof of U.S. citizenship from people registering to vote, the latest political battle over stringent identification laws enacted in Republican-led states ahea…
Stanford University tightens campus alcohol restrictions
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Stanford University has tightened campus drinking restrictions, banning large liquor bottles from undergraduate student housing and barring hard alcohol from being served altogether at parties for undergrads.
N.Y. police regularly violated rules on probing Muslim groups: watchdog
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York City Police Department routinely violated court-mandated rules on handling investigations of political activity, particularly Muslim groups or individuals, the department’s watchdog said in a report released on Tuesday…
Residency where marijuana is legal no reason for police search: U.S. court
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday said police officers cannot stop and search vehicles belonging to out-of-state motorists simply because of where they reside, including states where marijuana use is legal.
Massachusetts judge under fire for sentence in sex assault case
(Reuters) – Women’s groups and social media users on Tuesday criticized as too lenient the two years’ probation given to a Massachusetts student athlete who sexually assaulted two women as they slept, likening it to a recent California case that also r…
Illinois governor’s office warns of crippling pension payment hike
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Potential action this week by Illinois’ biggest public pension fund could put a big dent in the state’s already fragile finances, Governor Bruce Rauner’s administration warned.
Texas, four other states sue over U.S. transgender health policy
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas and four other states sued the Obama administration on Tuesday over extending its healthcare nondiscrimination law to transgender individuals, saying the move “represents a radical invasion of the federal bureaucracy into a doctor’s medical judgment.”
Graduate students at private colleges can unionize: U.S. labor board
(Reuters) – Columbia University graduate students who work as research and teaching assistants can form a union, the U.S. labor board ruled on Tuesday, opening the gates for graduate student organizing on private campuses all over the country.
Dozens of wildfires rage across arid U.S. West
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Dozens of wildfires that have blackened hundreds of square miles raged in the arid U.S. West on Tuesday, as destructive blazes forced residents from homes in California and Washington state.
Obama promises support to Louisiana after floods
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama walked door to door in an East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood on Tuesday hugging people and offering assurances that the country would help them recover from some of the worst floods ever recor…
