Republican senator criticizes Trump tax plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Rand Paul, a conservative maverick who helped kill the latest Republican effort to overturn Obamacare, took issue with President Donald Trump’s tax plan on Monday, asking in a tweet if it was really Republican. “This is a GOP tax...
U.S. rocker Tom Petty reported ‘clinging to life’: TMZ.com
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. rocker Tom Petty was reported on Monday to be clinging to life in a southern California hospital after conflicting reports that he had died. CBS News, citing Los Angeles Police Department, had earlier reported that Petty, 66, had died. The...
Country stars heartbroken over shooting at Vegas ‘neon sleepover’
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - American country music stars were gripped by fear and horror after Sunday’s mass shooting in Las Vegas turned a three-day open-air festival attended by some 22,000 people into a scene of carnage. The Route91 Harvest festival, promoted as a...
Music mogul Clive Davis tells of heartbreak over Whitney Houston death
LONDON(Reuters) - For music mogul Clive Davis, one memory stands out from a six-decade career - the sudden death of long-time collaborator Whitney Houston. The Grammy-winning record producer and executive - and subject of a new documentary “Clive Davis: The Soundtrack...
A cell signal, an open bar: tiny wins for Puerto Rico in ruins
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Puerto Ricans still living largely in darkness 12 days after Hurricane Maria leveled their island reveled in small victories on Sunday in what promises to be a months-long slog back to some semblance of normal life. Some islanders got...
U.S. lawmakers urge Trump to ‘get to work’ on Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers urged President Donald Trump on Sunday to stop sniping at Puerto Ricans and get to work helping them recover from a devastating hurricane, two days before he was to visit the island, where people remained without food,...
Can’t guarantee tax cut for entire middle class: Mnuchin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said one of the top goals of the Trump administration’s tax plan is to help the middle class, but he could not guarantee that every middle-class family would receive a tax cut. “It is our...
U.S. directly communicating with North Korea, seeks dialogue
BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday it was directly communicating with North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs but Pyongyang had shown no interest in dialogue. The disclosure by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a trip to China...
‘Let’s Make a Deal’ host Monty Hall dead at 96
(Reuters) - Monty Hall, one of the most popular game show hosts in American television history as he presided over a throng of outrageously costumed and nearly delirious contestants on “Let’s Make a Deal” for almost three decades, died on Saturday at age 96, his son...
Under pressure from Trump, Price resigns as health secretary over private plane uproar
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned under pressure from President Donald Trump on Friday in an uproar over Price’s use of costly private charter planes for government business. His abrupt departure was announced an hour...