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Friday, February 10, 2017

Challenges to Trump's travel ban abound in courts across U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeal court’s refusal to reinstate a temporary travel ban on refugees and citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries is a setback for U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration agenda, but the government is pressing ahead on multiple legal fronts.

U.S. lottery operators worry as fewer millennials line up to play

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Young Americans are showing less interest in buying lotto tickets than their parents, prompting lottery officials to worry about the odds for future growth.

Exclusive - Trump border 'wall' to cost $21.6 billion, take 3.5 years to build: internal report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21.6 billion, and take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters on Thursday.

Two die as winter storm wallops northeastern United States

BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The fiercest snowstorm of the winter slammed the northeastern United States on Thursday, leaving a foot (30 cm) of snow in places, canceling thousands of flights and shutting down schools. At least two deaths were blamed on the storm.

Arizona mother deported to Mexico in immigration action

PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona mother of two who lived in the United States for more than 20 years was deported to Mexico on Thursday, becoming one of the first to be swept up in the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigrants in the United States, her attorney and family said.

Engine stall prevents Aerolineas Argentinas flight from leaving New York

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Aerolineas Argentinas flight bound for Buenos Aires canceled takeoff from New York's JFK airport on Thursday night after one of its engines stalled, the state-run airline said in a statement on Friday.

Two workers taken to hospital in Phillips 66 pipeline fire in Louisiana

(Reuters) - Two workers were taken to a local hospital and another is unaccounted for after an explosion and fire on Thursday at a Phillips 66 pipeline station in a small town in southern Louisiana, parish officials said.

Construction resumes on Dakota pipeline despite tribe's challenge

CANNON BALL, N.D./HOUSTON (Reuters) - The company building an oil pipeline that has fueled sustained public protests said on Thursday it has started drilling under a North Dakota lake despite a last-ditch legal challenge from a Native American tribe leading the opposition.

Immigrant whose daughter pleaded to pope has first California hearing

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Mexican immigrant to the United States whose daughter asked Pope Francis for help in stopping her father's deportation attended his first hearing before an immigration judge in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Trump disputes account of his Supreme Court nominee's comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump castigated a Democratic senator on Thursday for saying U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch had voiced dismay in a private meeting over Trump's attacks on the judiciary, while Republicans came forward to back up the lawmaker's portrayal.