LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -An all-star lineup of late-night television hosts are uniting to chat about Hollywood’s ongoing labor disputes on a new podcast, a group effort to raise funds for their striking staff writers. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver will take part in the podcast that debuts on Wednesday …
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By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -A University of North Carolina graduate student has been charged in the fatal shooting on Monday of a professor, an incident that prompted an hours-long lockdown at the school’s Chapel Hill campus. Court records show Tailei Qi, age 34 according to media reports, was charged with first-degree murder and carrying a …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A federal judge in New Jersey on Tuesday struck down the state’s ban on the detention of immigrants awaiting deportation, in a legal challenge by private prison operator CoreCivic. U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch said the 2021 law prohibiting detention centers operated privately or by the government illegally interferes with …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – South Carolina’s top court on Tuesday declined to reconsider a recent ruling upholding the state’s ban on abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which opponents say will prevent women from terminating pregnancies after about six weeks. The South Carolina Supreme Court on a 4-1 vote rejected a request by …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday revived a trade group’s challenge to a San Francisco law adopted amid the COVID-19 pandemic requiring airlines that use the city’s airport to provide health insurance to employees. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision said the city was …
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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday came close to declaring that the Kremlin was responsible for the death of Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was believed to have been killed in a mysterious plane crash last week. “We all know that the Kremlin has a …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A smuggler with ties to a foreign extremist group helped Uzbek migrants enter the U.S. from Mexico, the White House said on Tuesday, raising questions about a potential security threat. The smuggler was based in Turkey and had links to the jihadist Islamic State, also known as ISIS, according …
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By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Serena Kashmir has always looked at her acting career as a “spiritual, loving and joyful thing,” but after the Hollywood actors’ strike began last month, she is taking a big step back from the craft. Hollywood is experiencing its first dual work stoppage of writers and actors in …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – California moved closer to becoming the first U.S. state to ban caste discrimination after a bill to outlaw the practise passed the California Assembly late on Monday. U.S. discrimination laws ban ancestry discrimination but do not explicitly ban casteism. California’s legislation targets the caste system in South Asian immigrant …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Miami Mayor Francis Suarez announced on Tuesday he is suspending his presidential campaign, becoming the first major Republican candidate to do so, after failing to qualify for the first primary debate held last week. “While I have decided to suspend my campaign for President, my commitment to making this …
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