By Steve Gorman and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -A man who fatally shot two Missouri jail guards in 2000 was executed on Tuesday after the governor and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene, even though several jurors in the case petitioned for a reduced sentence. Michael Tisius, 42, was convicted in 2001 of murdering Randolph …
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By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Authorities in New York, Toronto and Ottawa on Tuesday warned residents about the health risks from air polluted by smoke from unprecedented early summer wildfires in eastern Canada. An unusually early and intense start to wildfire season has set Canada on track for its worst-ever year as warm and dry …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said investigators plan to conclude its on-scene investigative work Wednesday from the southwest Virginia crash site of the light plane that caused a security scare on Sunday when it flew over heavily restricted airspace near Washington. Four people including the pilot of the …
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By Bharat Gautam and Yana Gaur (Reuters) – Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released the first episode of his new show on Twitter on Tuesday, weeks after being taken off the air by the network following a damaging defamation lawsuit over false claims of election fraud. In a roughly 10-minute video captioned “Ep.1” he …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – The largest LGBTQ advocacy organization in the United States on Tuesday declared its first national state of emergency, citing the proliferation of legislation in statehouses across the country aimed at regulating the lives of queer people. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said over 70 bills it considers anti-LGBTQ were passed …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui will face trial starting April 8, 2024 on U.S. charges of leading a more than $1 billion fraud. U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres set the date at a Tuesday hearing in Manhattan federal court. Guo is a prominent critic of China’s Communist …
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By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -Merck & Co sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, seeking to halt the Medicare drug price negotiation program contained in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which it argues violates the Fifth and First Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. This is the first attempt by a drugmaker to challenge the …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The U.S. government cannot ban people convicted of non-violent crimes from possessing guns, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The 11-4 ruling from the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest defeat for gun control laws in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last …
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By Richard Cowan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican effort to block future regulation of gas-fueled stoves stalled in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday when a group of about a dozen conservatives stopped their leaders’ move to bring up two bills for debate and passage. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his leadership …
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By Susan Heavey and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s lawyer has offered to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee staff to discuss the businessman’s ties to conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, but Democratic senators on Tuesday said the Republican donor was refusing to cooperate with legitimate requests for information. Revelations in …
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