U.S. judge denies Texas professors who sought gun ban in their classrooms
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. district judge on Monday denied a motion from three University of Texas professors who wanted to ban guns in their classroom after the state gave some students that right under a law then went into effect this month.
Judge orders State Department to review 14,900 Clinton emails
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A judge ordered the U.S. State Department on Monday to review for possible release 14,900 of Hillary Clinton’s emails and attachments that the FBI found when investigating her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Dylann Roof wrote white supremacist manifestos: prosecutors
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Investigators found two handwritten manifestos espousing white supremacy in the car and jail cell of a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston, South Carolina, church last year, according to a c…
Texas ruling adds to transgender students’ back-to-school anxiety
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – When Ashley Nurkin’s 7-year-old daughter begins second grade in Charlotte, North Carolina, next week, it will be her first time going to school as a girl.
Japan’s first lady makes first visit to Pearl Harbor
(Reuters) – Japan’s first lady Akie Abe made an unofficial visit to Pearl Harbor on Sunday where she paid tribute to Americans killed in Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941.
Two dozen structures destroyed by eastern Washington wildfires
(Reuters) – Emergency officials confronting a cluster of wildfires with limited resources in eastern Washington state enlisted the help of local farmers to help battle flames that have destroyed about two dozen buildings near Spokane, authorities said …
U.S. lawmakers press Mylan on EpiPen price increases
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two senior lawmakers on the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee on Monday pushed for information regarding sharp price increases for EpiPens, drug-filled injectable devices used by people to counter potentially deadly allergic rea…
Louisiana residents without flood insurance face uncertainty
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) – Quenton Robins watched on Sunday morning as a giant metal claw clamped down on his mother’s ruined belongings, snapping wooden cabinets with an audible crack as the operator of a giant mechanized arm slowly cleared a mound …
California Supreme Court upholds teacher tenure law
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld a ruling that protected the state’s tenure laws for public school teachers, marking a victory for unions.
Sandusky lawyer seeks to prove leak tainted in Penn State molestation case
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (Reuters) – A lawyer for convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky sought to prove on Monday that prosecutors illegally leaked information to a reporter about the former Penn State football coach and thus tainted the judicial process that…
