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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Wednesday overturned the governor’s veto of a bill to ban transgender youths from gender-affirming healthcare and restrict which toilets they use in public schools, voting in line with a national conservative-led movement. Both chambers of Kentucky’s general assembly, where Republicans hold large majorities, voted overwhelmingly …

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By Nandita Bose and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House made an emotional plea on Wednesday for Republican action to curb mass shootings, criticizing conservative lawmakers for saying nothing can be done after the nation’s latest high-profile mass shooting at a school in Tennessee this week. “It’s unacceptable that Republicans are saying there is …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman plans to return to the Senate the week of April 17 after a weeks-long treatment for depression, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday. In an update issued in late February, Fetterman’s office said he was doing well and remained on a …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York grand jury probing former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush-money payment to a porn star is not expected to reconvene on the matter for most of April as it takes a pre-scheduled break, U.S. media reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The grand jury has been hearing …

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By Erwin Seba (Reuters) – California can begin regulating how much profit the state’s oil refiners can earn on selling gasoline beginning this summer under that Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Tuesday. “With this legislation, we’re ending the oil industry’s days of operating in the shadows,” said Newsom, a Democrat, after signing the …

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By Kristina Cooke and Mica Rosenberg (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan bill that would raise penalties on employers who violate child labor laws, in the wake of reporting and federal investigations that found a growing number of companies employing underage migrant workers in dangerous factory settings. The bill, introduced in the …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges must now provide greater public disclosure of any free trips, meals or gifts they receive under new regulations adopted at the urging of lawmakers and judicial transparency advocates. The head of the federal judiciary’s administrative arm confirmed the change in a letter made public …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to throw out E. Jean Carroll’s defamation claim from next month’s high-profile trial over whether Trump raped the former Elle magazine columnist in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan rejected Trump’s claim that “absolute litigation privilege” …

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