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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Abortion opponents on Tuesday urged a U.S. appeals court to allow the suspension of Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case with potentially far-reaching impact on how the government regulates medicine. In a filing with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New …

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By Nathan Frandino SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) – As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, a California county is using the same wastewater monitoring program it used to track the coronavirus to go after another deadly public health crisis: opioids. Marin County, north of San Francisco, began a pilot program in February to collect wastewater samples from …

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By Sharon Bernstein and Julia Harte (Reuters) – The desperate rush by a rookie policeman and his training officer to bring a mass shooting at a Kentucky bank to a halt was captured in spare but dramatic detail in footage from their body cameras, released by authorities on Tuesday. The footage, shown by the Louisville …

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By Gram Slattery and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott plans to launch a presidential exploratory committee on Wednesday, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, a key step toward running for president in 2024. If he were to run, Scott would challenge former President Donald Trump, who launched his campaign …

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By Julia Harte, Brendan O’Brien and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -Kentucky and Tennessee political leaders on Tuesday called for tighter controls on guns, including tougher laws preventing people in crisis from accessing firearms, after two mass shootings killed 11 people in Louisville and Nashville. A bank employee shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said people seeking to remove books about race and diversity from schools should concentrate on banning assault weapons instead, during an interview with Reuters this week about challenges facing the U.S. education system. Cardona said he was witnessing an unprecedented attack on public education, including specific curricula, …

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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -An Oklahoma school board on Tuesday rejected the Catholic Church’s application to create the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the U.S. – a decision that could ignite a legal battle testing the concept of separation of church and state. The application was to create the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic …

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By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – U.S. officials on Tuesday gave final approval for a company owned by billionaire Philip Anschutz to begin building a massive transmission line that will deliver wind energy from blustery Wyoming to power-hungry California. The “notice to proceed” from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management allows TransWest Express LLC to break …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Tuesday proposed new health protections to reduce exposure of U.S. workers and communities to ethylene oxide, a toxic, colorless gas mainly used to sterilize medical equipment and spices. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule with new requirements at 86 sterilizer facilities across the country, that if …

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