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Trump, congressional leaders call for unity after ambush

President Donald Trump and congressional leaders called for unity Wednesday after a gunman attacked an American tradition — the congressional baseball game — in a deadly ambush on the Republican team’s practice that stunned the nation’s capital.

Nevada asks court to dismiss Texas’ Yucca Mountain lawsuit

Nevada has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by Texas seeking to force the federal government to restart the licensing process for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

DC-area gunman had history of political activity against GOP

The gunman who shot a top GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside the nation’s capital had a long history of lashing out at Republicans and recently frightened a neighbor by firing a rifle into a field behind his Illinois house.

Passenger complaints up 70 percent for US airlines

U.S. airline passenger complaints leapt 70 percent in April from a year earlier after a series of high-profile incidents including a passenger being dragged off a United Airlines flight, the government said on Wednesday.

 
UPS workers fled gunfire that killed 4 in San Francisco

A UPS employee who had recently filed a grievance opened fire Wednesday inside one of the company’s San Francisco packing facilities, killing three co-workers before fatally shooting himself as employees fled frantically into the streets shouting “shooter!,” authorities and witnesses said.

Ohio college student released by N. Korea home, but in coma

An American college student who was released from a North Korean prison is finally home but in a coma and undergoing treatment at an Ohio hospital where he was taken shortly after arriving on U.S. soil.

Rolling Stone magazine to pay $1.65M to Virginia fraternity

Rolling Stone magazine agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a defamation lawsuit filed by a University of Virginia fraternity over a debunked story about a rape on campus, the fraternity said Tuesday.

Washington submarine firm to take people to the Titanic

OceanGate, which is based on Everett, Washington’s waterfront, plans to dive on the famous wreck in 2018 — and it is taking along paying passengers.

Michigan health chief, 4 others charged in Flint water probe

The head of the Michigan health department was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter, the highest-ranking member of Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration to be snagged in a criminal investigation of Flint’s lead-contaminated water.