TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state on Tuesday asked a federal judge to force private prison operator The Geo Group to allow health inspectors into its for-profit immigration detention center in Tacoma, which has been the subject of thousands of complaints from detainees in recent years. Inspectors with the Washington Department of Health have repeatedly …
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) – The chairman of the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Tuesday asked the Southern Poverty Law Center’s boss to testify before the panel in May after the civil rights group was indicted last week. • President Donald Trump’s administration obtained a criminal indictment last week charging SPLC with …
April 28 (Reuters) – The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on Tuesday adopted new regulations for autonomous vehicles, allowing manufacturers to test and deploy heavy-duty driverless vehicle technology on the state’s roads. The new regulations also expand safety and oversight requirements for all classes of autonomous vehicles, the California DMV said in a statement. …
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — It’s not every day — or even every decade — that voters are presented a decision like this: Should the state’s individual income tax be eliminated? When that question appears on a Missouri ballot later this year, it will mark the first time since the modern income tax began over …
MINERAL WELLS, Texas (AP) — Thunderstorms tore through parts of Texas on Tuesday, sending at least two people to the hospital as powerful winds ripped roofs off homes, flattened buildings and tossed debris through the air. Multiple homes and businesses were damaged and families were displaced in Mineral Wells, a small city about 45 miles …
By Sophie Yu, Casey Hall and Julie Zhu BEIJING/HONG KONG, April 29 (Reuters) – Travel demand in China is expected to remain strong during the five‑day Labour Day holiday from May 1, with travellers opting for domestic road trips and independent tours as higher fuel costs curb demand for overseas holidays. Travel agencies and industry experts …
NEW YORK (AP) — It is rare, the Ms. Foundation’s next leader acknowledged, for a Black woman to take the helm of a major nonprofit from another Black woman. It is even rarer, she noted, for that organization to be financially healthy. And yet that is the position Tracy Sturdivant will enter when she succeeds …
April 29 (Reuters) – Russia will mark victory over Nazi Germany next month with a military parade on Moscow’s Red Square, but with no military equipment displayed in view of the operational situation in the war in Ukraine, the Defence Ministry said late on Tuesday. The parade, traditionally held on May 9, the day the …
BOSTON (AP) — Joel Embiid was even better in his second game back. And that was good enough for the Philadelphia 76ers to avoid elimination in their first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics. Less than three weeks after an emergency appendectomy knocked Embiid out for the end of the regular season and the start …
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — David Pastrnak scored on a breakaway 9:14 into overtime, and the Boston Bruins avoided elimination with a 2-1 win over the Buffalo Sabres in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Tuesday night. Catching Buffalo on a line change, Hampus Lindholm fed a pass up the right boards to find …