U.S. anti-bias law does not protect transgender workers: Justice Dept
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not. The memo sent to U.S. Attorneys’ offices on Wednesday...
Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein takes leave after sex harassment claims
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning movie producer Harvey Weinstein said he was taking a leave of absence from his company and seeking therapy after the New York Times reported on Thursday that he had been the target of sexual harassment complaints. The New York...
Trump denies Tillerson threatened to resign: Twitter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump denied on Thursday that Rex Tillerson had threatened to resign after a news report that the secretary of state had called him a moron and had to be repeatedly persuaded not to leave the administration. “Rex Tillerson...
U.S. interior secretary raised political funds on government trip: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Department of the Interior came under further scrutiny on Thursday amid a media report that he had attended a Republican fundraiser in March during a government trip to the Caribbean. Politico, citing department travel...
Mixing Kafka with Jane Austen: Ishiguro wins literature Nobel
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of “The Remains of the Day”, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for a run of “exquisite” novels that the Swedish Academy said mixed Franz Kafka with Jane Austen. The writer said winning the award was...
‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel’s probe: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Donald Trump’s campaign...
Tillerson says never considered resigning
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday he had never considered resigning and was committed to President Donald Trump’s agenda, but failed to address whether he had referred to the president as a “moron,” as NBC reported. The...
Cosby accuser asks U.S. appeals court to revive defamation lawsuit
BOSTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for an actress who claims Bill Cosby raped her in 1974 told a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday that the comedian “destroyed” her reputation by calling her a liar after she came forward with her allegations in a 2014 newspaper interview....
Whirlpool’s washer war is balancing act for Trump
Clyde, Ohio (Reuters) - In the middle of Whirlpool Corp’s bustling washer factory in northern Ohio there is an empty patch of concrete floor - a reminder of a $60 million expansion plan the appliance maker says fell victim to unfair foreign competition. “We cleared...
Tillerson weighed quitting in July amid tensions with Trump: NBC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and other top officials intervened to persuade Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not to resign during the summer as tensions rose between President Trump and the nation’s top diplomat, NBC News reported on...