By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw said on Tuesday the railroad will hold safety meetings and work to revitalize its safety culture as U.S. officials announced two new wide-ranging reviews in the wake of a spate of accidents. Norfolk Southern has been under fire after a number of derailments of its trains, …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday accused House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy of helping Fox News stoke conspiracy theories by providing videos used by the cable network to portray the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters as peaceful. But McCarthy, who told reporters he had not seen the Fox …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Missouri state law that declared several federal gun laws “invalid” is unconstitutional, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday, handing the U.S. Justice Department a victory in its bid to get the law tossed out. At issue was a measure Republican Governor Mike Parson signed …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Battles over abortion are heating up in state capitols across the United States as lawmakers wrestle with how much to restrict or expand access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Here is a snapshot of state legislation seeking to restrict or protect abortion access in …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The man who killed eight people with a truck on a Manhattan bike path in 2017 should be spared the death penalty and instead be sent to prison for life because execution was “not necessary” to achieve justice, his lawyer told jurors on Tuesday. Sayfullo Saipov, a 35-year-old Uzbek …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of farmers and climate activists rallied in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to call for significant climate provisions in the farm spending bill Congress hopes to pass this year. Agriculture contributes about 9% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions according to the Environmental Protection Agency, mostly from fertilizer application and …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will seek to raise the Medicare tax on high earners and push for more drug price negotiations to help keep the federal health insurance program solvent through at least 2050 as part of his budget proposal this week, the White House said. The tax increase from …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. Department of Justice official on Tuesday urged a panel to swiftly comply with a congressional directive to increase prison sentences for so-called straw purchasers of guns, despite concerns that doing so might disproportionately impact Black people. Gary Restaino, the top federal prosecutor in Arizona, told a bipartisan panel …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of Congress, has been released from the hospital after being treated for shingles, she said on Tuesday, though she did not specify when she would be able to return to Washington. Democrats control the Senate by a narrow 51-49 margin, meaning …
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By Gabriella Borter and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Republican lawmakers in Florida filed bills on Tuesday to outlaw most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, a ban that would severely undercut access to the procedure in the U.S. South if passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature. The bills, filed on the opening day of the legislature’s …
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