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…
FBI probes stabbing by Virginia man who yelled “Allah Akbar”: police
(Reuters) – The FBI is investigating a double stabbing by a Virginia man who shouted the Muslim phrase “Allah Akbar,” while authorities on Tuesday denied media reports that the attack may have been an attempted beheading.
Appeals court upholds Ohio law that shortens early voting
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld an Ohio law passed in 2014 that shortened the state’s early voting period and abolished a so-called Golden Week when residents could register and cast ballots in the same week.
Sandusky is innocent, deserves new trial, lawyer says
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (Reuters) – Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky is innocent and should get a new trial, his defense lawyer told reporters following a three-day hearing in a Pennsylvania state court.
Florida announces Zika case hundreds of miles from Miami
CHICAGO/TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – Florida officials on Tuesday announced the first case of Zika transmitted by mosquitoes in Pinellas County, located some 265 miles (425 km) from Miami, where the first locally transmitted U.S. cases were reported.
Monsanto beats cities’ lawsuits over San Francisco Bay pollution
(Reuters) – A federal judge has dismissed lawsuits in which the California cities of San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley sought to force agricultural company Monsanto Co to help pay for reducing PCB contamination to San Francisco Bay.
Civil rights groups accuse Arkansas city of running ‘debtors prison’
(Reuters) – Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday accusing a small Arkansas city of running what they said amounted to a modern day debtors prison where a local court imposed inordinate fees on the poor and jailed them if they did not …
