By Kanishka Singh and Shivani Tanna (Reuters) -At least three people were killed and eight wounded in a mass shooting in Fort Worth, Texas, after a local festival, officials said on Tuesday, in the latest incident of gun violence around the Fourth of July holiday. The shooting took place just before midnight on Monday in …
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(Reuters) -Four people were killed and two were injured in a shooting on Monday night in Philadelphia, and a suspect was taken into custody, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a late night news conference. The suspect, a man believed to be 40-years-old, did not appear to have any connection to the victims, Outlaw …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Three civil rights groups filed a complaint against Harvard on Monday, claiming its preferential policy for undergraduate applicants with family ties to the elite school overwhelmingly benefits white students, days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down its race-conscious admissions policies. The groups filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson and Utah Solicitor General Melissa Holyoak to fill Republican slots at the Federal Trade Commission, the White House said on Monday. If confirmed by the Senate, the two Republicans will not change the balance of power at the FTC, which enforces antitrust …
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By Daniel Trotta and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – In state after state, conservative lawmakers this year have banned medical procedures for transgender youth. Now, a growing number of federal judges are blocking those laws from taking effect. U.S. district court judges have halted such laws in six states – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Police in Washington are offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that could lead to the arrest of those involved in three explosions within a 15-minute span at retail outlets in the U.S. capital on Sunday. No one was killed or injured in the early hour blasts in …
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By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – The Biden administration’s climate agenda is facing an unexpected challenge in drought-prone Corpus Christi, Texas, where a proposed clean hydrogen hub would require the installation of energy-intensive, expensive and potentially environmentally damaging seawater desalination plants. The Gulf Coast port is in the running for up to $1 billion available under …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two PGA Tour officials will testify before a U.S. Senate panel next week about the tour’s merger with Saudi-backed LIV Golf, but LIV officials declined to appear, lawmakers said on Monday. Ron Price, chief operating officer of the PGA Tour, and board member Jimmy Dunne have agreed to testify before the Senate Permanent …
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By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The number of U.S. women who died within a year after pregnancy more than doubled between 1999 and 2019, with the highest deaths among Black women, researchers said on Monday. There were an estimated 1,210 maternal deaths in 2019, compared with 505 in 1999, according to a study published in …
By Brendan O’Brien and Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – A shooting at a holiday block party in Baltimore over the weekend that left two people dead and 28 injured highlights a sustained surge in mass shootings in the United States since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. As of Monday, 340 mass shootings have …
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