Judge blocks Obama rule extending overtime pay to 4.2 million U.S. workers
By Daniel Wiessner and Robert Iafolla(Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million salaried workers from taking...
View ArticleFour critically injured in fire at Exxon's giant Baton Rouge refinery
By Erwin SebaHOUSTON (Reuters) - Four people were in critical condition after a fire hit a giant Exxon Mobil refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday, a local hospital said.The incident was the...
View ArticleU.S. probes Seaboard Corp for links to people on terror list: WSJ
(Reuters) - The Department of Justice is investigating Seaboard Corp. about whether the food processing giant did business with people and a company on the U.S. government's designated-terrorist list,...
View ArticleOn JFK anniversary, Zapruder relative says assassination film hovers over family
By Marice RichterDALLAS (Reuters) - Alexandra Zapruder was not born when her grandfather trained his home-movie camera on President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade rolling through downtown Dallas 53 years...
View ArticleMacau billionaire faces new U.S. charges in U.N. bribe case
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday brought new charges against a billionaire from Macau accused of engaging in a scheme to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to...
View ArticleU.S.-Iranian citizen convicted in U.S. for trying to buy missiles for Iran
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A dual citizen of Iran and the United States was found guilty on Tuesday on charges that he tried to help acquire surface-to-air missiles and aircraft components for...
View ArticleJudge orders U.S. to reconsider denying passport to 'intersex' veteran
By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - A federal judge in Denver ordered the U.S. Department of State to reconsider its denial of a passport to a Navy veteran from Colorado who identifies as neither male...
View ArticleEPA delays cleanup proposal for radioactive waste in Missouri
(Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Tuesday it was delaying indefinitely its proposal for how to clean up or seal off radioactive soil buried in a St. Louis-area landfill adjacent to another waste...
View ArticleObama presents final Medal of Freedom honors
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama awarded the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest civilian honor in the United States - to 21 key figures at a star-studded ceremony at the...
View ArticleAs Dakota pipeline saga drags, rancor builds on both sides
By Terray SylvesterCANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) - The September decision by the Obama administration to delay final approval for the Dakota Access Pipeline was intended to give federal officials more...
View ArticleIllinois fix to unpaid bills may end up as financial time bomb
By Dave McKinney and Karen PierogCHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois owes a handful of financial consortia more than $118 million under an obscure program intended to speed up overdue payments to the...
View ArticleSouth Carolina Governor Haley accepts Trump's U.N. offer: NBC
(Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has accepted President-elect Donald Trump's offer to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing a source...
View ArticleU.S. offers mobile device guidelines to curb driver distraction
By Bernie WoodallDETROIT (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday issued voluntary guidelines for makers of mobile devices, asking them to help keep eyes on the road by developing a...
View ArticleAftermarket Parts Business Sold by Ariens
BRILLION, WI (WTAQ) - Ariens Company has agreed to sell its aftermarket parts business to a Minnesota-based company.A deal has been reached between the Brillion-based manufacturer and Arrowhead...
View ArticleCarson talks with Trump team, says he can make 'inner cities great'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Republican rival-turned-supporter Ben Carson on Wednesday said he could serve a role under Donald Trump after talks with the president-elect's team.Carson had been offered...
View ArticleU.S. airports ease Thanksgiving rush with friendly dogs
By David IngramNEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. airports trotted out friendly companion dogs to calm jittery travelers and offered perks including free parking on Wednesday as throngs of people rushed toward...
View ArticlePolice Consider Missing Teen Endangered
LAKE MILLS, WI (Wisconsin Radio Network) - Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing and endangered 16 year-old Jefferson County girl.Lake Mills Police Chief Pat Matuszewski said...
View Article'San Antonio Four' exonerated in 1990s Texas sexual assault cases
By Jim ForsythSAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas court on Wednesday exonerated four women convicted of sexual assault in the 1990s after lawyers argued that they were sent to prison because of junk...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos nominated for Education Secretary
WASHINGTON, DC (WHTC) - President-elect Donald Trump is nominating Holland, Michigan native Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary.Trump who has vowed to work with DeVos and reform the education system...
View ArticleWhite nationalist leader to speak at Texas A&M University next month
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A white nationalist leader seen in a video shouting "Hail Trump" while some attendees perform Nazi salutes at a weekend rally in Washington is scheduled to...
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