By Luc Cohen and Brendan O’Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -The mother of a New Yorker killed in 2017 when a man driving a truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a crowded Manhattan bike path told a hushed courtroom on Wednesday that no punishment meted out to the attacker could compare to her pain. “This …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A Philadelphia Democrat who promised to hire more police has won her party’s nomination for mayor, while a former TV news anchor has ousted a Republican from the mayor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, the largest city in the country in which the party had control. Democrat Donna Deegan pulled off …
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -A man accused of attacking two congressional staff members with a baseball bat this week and threatening to kill one of them, has been charged with assault on an employee of the U.S. government, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, 49, was taken into custody by Fairfax police following …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed legislation to ban Chinese-owned TikTok from operating in the state to “protect Montanans” from alleged Chinese surveillance, making it the first U.S. state to ban the popular short video app. Here is a detailed list of U.S. allegations against the company and its parent, Bytedance. …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday left in place a Democratic-backed ban on assault-style rifles and large capacity magazines enacted in Illinois after a deadly mass shooting in Chicago’s Highland Park suburb in 2022, handing a setback to gun rights advocates. The court denied a request by the National Association for …
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By Tom Hals, Andrew Goudsward and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -Federal appeals court judges on Wednesday appeared to express support for opponents of the abortion pill mifepristone to pursue their challenge to its U.S. approval, which has potentially far-reaching consequences for abortion access across the country. From the start of the high-stakes oral arguments before the …
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By Aleksandra Michalska and Christine Kiernan NEW YORK (Reuters) – The world’s oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at auction. Wednesday’s winning bid for the Codex Sassoon was made via a donation by Alfred H. …
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(Reuters) – Large parts of the United States and some areas in Canada, home to around 165 million people, could face energy shortfalls during periods of extreme heat this summer, a group that sets reliability standards for North American electric grids warned. In its summer outlook released on Wednesday, the North American Electric Reliability Corp …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department will review the environmental impacts of a possible land swap deal that would allow a new road to cut through an Alaska wildlife refuge, it said on Wednesday. The move comes two months after Interior Secretary Deb Haaland withdrew a Trump-era land exchange deal between her agency and the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking to meet with the makers of the life-saving medication naloxone used to reverse opioid overdoses, in an effort to increase access and reduce cost, a spokesperson for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said. ONDCP Director Dr. Rahul Gupta “plans to have conversations with …
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