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
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(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
U.S. President Donald Trump looks at a tracking forecast map on Hurricane Dorian as he receives a status report on the storm in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump showed a map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path on Wednesday
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas (Reuters) – Rescuers searched for survivors in the Bahamas on Wednesday after Hurricane Dorian, the most damaging storm to strike the island nation, left in its wake miles of flooded landscape dotted with pulverized homes, and dozens of people with missing loved ones. The scope of the damage and humanitarian crisis was
SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence drew fire from Democrats on Tuesday when he met with Irish leaders in the capital, Dublin, but stayed at a hotel owned by President Donald Trump almost 300 kilometers (180 miles) away, at Trump’s urging. U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence pose for
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and the United States have only “limited” cooperation in stopping fentanyl smuggling, a Chinese narcotics official was quoted as saying on Tuesday, after complaints China isn’t doing enough to help fight an opioid crisis in the United States. FILE PHOTO – A used needle sits on the ground in a park
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Attorney General William Barr delivers opening remarks at a summit on “Combating Anti-Semitism” at the Justice Department in Washington, U.S. July 15, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr has drafted legislation that would speed the death penalty for people who have committed mass murder, a