Judge halts Ferguson, Missouri, school board elections, saying they violate voting rights
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday barred further elections for the Ferguson, Missouri, school district until it reforms a system he said violated the rights of black voters in a city that has become the face of a fierce U.S. debate on race.
Family files suit over gun instructor’s killing at Arizona range
PHOENIX (Reuters) – The family of an Arizona gun instructor fatally shot by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi submachine gun in 2014 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the range and its owner, an attorney confirmed on Monday.
U.S. judge blocks Obama transgender school bathroom policy
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. judge blocked an Obama administration policy that public schools should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by 13 dissenting states just in time for t…
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…
