HOUSTON (Reuters) – The Houston Ship Channel on Friday reopened for vessel traffic, the U.S. Coast Guard said, after the last of 11 protesters who had disrupted traffic by dangled on ropes above the key energy-export waterwater was removed by police earlier in the morning. A large portion of the channel was closed when Greenpeace
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BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Dozens of protesters gathered in downtown Baltimore on Thursday as President Donald Trump made his first visit to the city since he blasted it as “disgusting” and “rodent-infested” in hotly debated tweets in July. Trump gave a speech to Republicans from the House of Representatives holding an annual retreat in the predominantly
FILE PHOTO: Ventura County Fire Department personnel respond to a boat fire on a 75-foot (23-meter) vessel off Santa Cruz Island, California, U.S. September 2, 2019. Ventura County Fire Department/Handout via REUTERS. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – All six crew members on a California dive boat that erupted in flames on Labor Day, killing 34 people,
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Support for U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren rose more than that of any other Democratic presidential hopeful over the past month, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll, solidifying her status as a top contender behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California trucking companies that haul everything from summer strawberries to cars and Christmas toys say they are under threat from a bill that could turn so-called gig workers into employees. Sandra Alzate, 51, vice president of a trucking company, poses for a portrait in Los Angeles, California, September 10, 2019. Picture
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) – A Chinese woman accused of hoodwinking U.S. Secret Service agents to gain illegal entry to President Donald Trump’s Florida resort repeated her assertion that she “did nothing wrong” as her federal court trial was handed to a jury on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club is shown
(Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday barred PennEast Pipeline Co from using a federal law to seize properties controlled by the state of New Jersey in order to build a proposed $1 billion natural gas pipeline. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said in its decision that the U.S. Natural
(Reuters) – The National Rifle Association (NRA) sued San Francisco on Monday after the recent declaration by the city’s Board of Supervisors that the NRA is a terrorist organization, media reported. FILE PHOTO: An attendee handles a semiautomatic handgun during the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting at the Indiana Convention center in Indianapolis,
FILE PHOTO: A view shows damage caused by Hurricane Dorian to the South Riding Point oil terminal in Grand Bahama, September 7, 2019. Equinor/Handout via REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Acting Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan on Monday said the country is expediting its immigration processes and deploying more resources to help
SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean cargo vessel carrying 4,000 cars bound for the Middle East listed heavily on Sunday off the coast of the southern U.S. state of Georgia, an official of operator Hyundai Glovis said. Efforts are underway to rescue four crew members believed to be inside the vessel, the company and South
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – Hundreds of weary Bahamians, some carrying small bags of belongings and children on their hips, disembarked a cruise ship in south Florida on Saturday after fleeing the catastrophic devastation left by Hurricane Dorian. A passenger is greeted after disembarking the Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line ship, Grand Celebration, after traveling from
NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) – Thousands of people fled devastation in the Bahamas on Saturday as conditions grew increasingly desperate nearly a week after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, reducing many homes to rubble and knocking out water and power. A volunteer drives a cargo cart at the landing track at the Leonard M. Thompson International Airport
KITTY HAWK, N.C. (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. The storm made landfall at Cape Hatteras at about 9 a.m. (1300 GMT) with maximum sustained
NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) – Hundreds of people fled the Bahamas island of Great Abaco by boat on Friday and thousands more tried to get on a cruise ship leaving neighboring Grand Bahama to escape the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. The most powerful hurricane on record to hit the Bahamas swept through the islands earlier
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – At a closed-door meeting at the White House on Aug. 19, President Donald Trump looked increasingly alarmed as his top envoy to China delivered evidence of rising Farm Belt frustration over his biofuel policy along with a stark warning: You’ve got a problem in Iowa. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump
CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – The howling west flank of Hurricane Dorian soaked the Carolinas on Thursday, flooding coastal towns, downing trees and whipping up occasional tornadoes a couple of days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. In low-lying parts of the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina, floodwaters rose to a foot (30