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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by the conservative activist group Project Veritas to invalidate on constitutional free speech grounds an Oregon law that generally bans unannounced recordings of conversations. The justices turned away the group’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that upheld the …

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(Reuters) -A group of labor unions, nonprofits and solar companies sued the Trump administration on Monday over its cancellation of a $7 billion Biden-era grant program that aimed to expand solar energy to low-income communities. The complaint, filed in federal court in Rhode Island, alleges that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Lee …

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By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear another bid by Turkey’s state-owned lender Halkbank to avoid fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges in the United States for allegedly helping Iran evade American economic sanctions. The justices turned away Halkbank’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that let the criminal case …

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By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Democratic Party has made no secret of the need to reconnect with young male voters, a demographic that drifted toward Republican Donald Trump in the last U.S. presidential election and will be key in the 2026 midterms. But a year before the elections that will determine who controls …

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By David Hood and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Democrat-led civil rights watchdog agency opened a sweeping investigation into how the federal government has responded to allegations of antisemitism on college campuses, a review that could bring a rare dose of official scrutiny to the Trump administration’s confrontations with Columbia and other universities. The …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court is set to wade back into the nation’s culture wars during its new nine-month term that begins on Monday with a series of contentious cases on issues including transgender athletes, gay conversion therapy, guns and race. The first of these goes before the court on the …

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By Julia Harte (Reuters) -Chad Hill thinks some questions need to be asked about vaccines. Hill has harbored doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine since it was introduced, due to how quickly it was developed and released. He suspects that medical experts who pushed the vaccine were compromised by ties to drugmakers. And he supported Health …

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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court began its new nine-month term on Monday with major cases in store concerning presidential powers as Donald Trump probes the limits of his authority under the U.S. Constitution and federal law, while turning away a high-profile appeal by Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine …

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(Corrects headline to remove reference to oil companies) By Valerie Volcovici and Sheila Dang (Reuters) -California Attorney General Rob Bonta said on Wednesday his state would continue to sue the Trump administration’s aggressive deregulatory actions on environmental rules, and was also looking at more lawsuits connected to deception around plastic recycling. Speaking on the “Climate …

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