Famed Plaza District fades as Manhattan office landscape shifts
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lower leasing costs, more efficient office space and the hope of projecting an image more appealing to millennials are leading hedge funds and large corporations to leave Manhattan’s most-coveted business district for a rejuvenated…
Should I stay or should I go? U.S. civil servants gird for Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election has set off a round of resume-polishing across Washington, as the nation’s federal civil servants prepare for a leader who has promised to freeze hiring and revers…
Driver arrested, faces charges in deadly Tennessee school bus crash: police
(Reuters) – A bus carrying elementary students home from school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, crashed on Monday afternoon, killing six children and sending nearly two dozen to a hospital with injuries, authorities said.
U.S. Holocaust museum alarmed over ‘hateful speech’ by white nationalists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed alarm on Monday over “hateful speech” at a white nationalist meeting over the weekend, and a restaurant apologized for hosting the group after a woman tweeted a picture of herself maki…
Court says Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin was unconstitutional
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – Republicans in Wisconsin tilted district maps in their favor in order to hamper Democrats and ultimately win state elections in 2012 and 2014, a federal court said on Monday in a case that could influence future rulings on gerryma…
Willing to oppose Trump, some Senate Republicans gain leverage
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It is no surprise that Democrats in the U.S. Congress will oppose Donald Trump but the most important resistance to fulfilling the president-elect’s agenda is beginning to emerge from Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Police fire water cannon at Dakota pipeline protesters in freezing weather
NEW YORK/CANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) – Police fired tear gas and water at hundreds of protesters in the freezing North Dakota weather late Sunday and early Monday, in the latest violent clash over a pipeline project running through the state.
State Department warns about possible attacks in Europe during holiday season
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The State Department on Monday issued an alert to U.S. citizens about a heightened risk of terrorist attacks throughout Europe, particularly during the holiday season.
Amid police shootings, suspect arrested in Texas officer’s death
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A 31-year-old man was arrested on Monday in the fatal ambush shooting of a San Antonio police officer, one of four officers shot in the line of duty in Texas, Missouri and Florida a day earlier.
Security agents fueled panic at New York airport in August: authorities
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The actions of untrained security agents at New York’s JFK airport helped fuel unfounded panic that sent people streaming out of terminals on a busy Sunday evening in August, authorities said on Monday in announcing steps to preven…
