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Monday, May 15, 2017

U.S. top court rejects bid to revive North Carolina voting law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of North Carolina's strict voter-identification law on Monday, rejecting a Republican bid to revive the measure struck down by a lower court for intentionally aiming to suppress black voter turnout.

Trump reassures farmers immigration crackdown not aimed at their workers

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said he would seek to keep his tough immigration enforcement policies from harming the U.S. farm industry and its largely immigrant workforce, according to farmers and officials who met with him.

U.S. lawmakers ask Trump to turn over any Comey tapes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Sunday called on President Donald Trump to turn over any tapes of conversations with fired FBI chief James Comey, potentially setting up a showdown with the White House as Democrats considered a boycott of the vote on Comey's replacement.

District of Columbia contestant named Miss USA

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A 25-year-old scientist representing the District of Columbia was crowned winner of the Miss USA pageant on Sunday, the second consecutive year that the contestant from the nation's capital won the annual competition.

Four to plead guilty in Baruch College frat hazing death in Pennsylvania

(Reuters) - Four defendants are due to enter guilty pleas on Monday in the 2013 fraternity hazing death of a Baruch College student in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains.

U.S. Supreme Court rejects case involving burping teen

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against a New Mexico police officer for arresting a 13-year-old boy who burped repeatedly and disrupted his class, a case that raised questions about police conduct in school settings.

Mayor of Virginia city targeted by anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing marchers

(Reuters) - The mayor of the Virginia college town of Charlottesville was the target of anti-Semitic tweets on Sunday after speaking out against white nationalists who converged on a local park carrying blazing torches the night before.

Facebook's Sandberg urges family-friendly policies on Mother's Day

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posted a Mother's Day appeal on Sunday for federal and corporate policies to benefit working parents, including a minimum wage increase, mandated paid parental leave and affordable childcare.

U.S. settles Russian money laundering case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Russian-owned group of companies has agreed to pay nearly $6 million to settle U.S. civil allegations that the firms laundered proceeds of a $230 million tax fraud, ending a politically charged case days before it was set to go to trial.

Police kill hostage-taker ending standoff at Illinois hospital

(Reuters) - Police shot and killed a county jail inmate receiving treatment at a hospital near Chicago after he grabbed his guard's gun and took a female hospital employee hostage on Saturday, the sheriff's office said.