By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – Florida is looking to expand its ban on teaching young children about sexual orientation and gender identity issues to include all students in its public schools under a new rule set for a vote by the state Board of Education next month. The proposed rule is the latest move by …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The latest burst of heavy, wind-blown rain and snow churned out of the Pacific into California on Tuesday, triggering scattered floods and mudslides, uprooting trees and leaving thousands of storm-weary residents under evacuation orders. The newest onslaught, arriving early on the second official day of spring, was concentrated …
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(Reuters) – AbbVie Inc said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had declined to approve its Parkinson’s disease therapy for adults and had requested for more information on the device used to administer the treatment. The therapy, ABBV-951, is a formulation of carbidopa-levodopa, the standard of care for the disease. It is administered …
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By Evan Garcia SWEETWATER, Texas (Reuters) – The Texas town of Sweetwater claims fame as home to the world’s largest annual “rattlesnake roundup,” where thousands of pounds of slithering venomous snakes are forced out of their dens and put on display. The rattlesnakes are rounded up in the second weekend of March and then taken …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to ban caste discrimination was introduced in the California Senate on Wednesday by a Democratic lawmaker, which, if passed, could make California the first U.S. state to outlaw the practice, a problem for the state’s substantial South Asian diaspora. The bill was introduced and authored by state …
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By Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s team is leaning toward basing his 2024 re-election campaign in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and is considering at least three people to serve as his campaign manager, Democratic sources familiar with the matters said. Biden, who has said he …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A recent U.S. labor board ruling limiting what employers can include in severance agreements is a reminder that companies must be careful not to ask workers to sign away their rights, the agency’s top prosecutor said on Wednesday. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo in a memo …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. aviation regulator said on Wednesday it will temporarily cut minimum flight requirements for airlines at congested New York City-area airports and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to address summer congestion issues, citing air traffic controller staffing levels. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agreed to the request of …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of seven U.S. senators on Tuesday proposed legislation to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65, in a bid to address airline industry staffing issues. The legislation first proposed last year by Senator Lindsey Graham and other Republicans now includes Democrats Joe Manchin and …
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By Brendan O’Brien and Brad Brooks (Reuters) -Virginia sheriff deputies and medical staffers wrestled with a handcuffed Irvo Otieno, a 28-year-old Black man, for several minutes at a state mental hospital before he died, video surveillance shows. The altercation took place on March 6 as Otieno was being admitted to Central State Hospital in Petersburg, …
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