By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – Florida’s education chief on Friday defended the state’s rejection of a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, saying the public schools already teach about racism and slavery, while lashing out at “woke indoctrination.” The rejection of the course was the latest in a series actions by the administration …
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – Three Colorado police officers and two paramedics pleaded not guilty on Friday to homicide charges in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a Black man subdued by police, placed in a choke hold and injected with a sedative, though he was neither armed nor suspected of a crime. Attorneys …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to “have a discussion” with House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy on U.S. debt amid a looming debate about raising the debt ceiling. At an event with city mayors, Biden said a U.S. debt default would be a calamity unlike anything ever seen in …
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By Nate Raymond and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court’s chief security officer on Friday said she spoke with each of the justices in her inquiry into who leaked a draft of its ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide, adding that the probe found no information …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives plans to take up bipartisan legislation next week to establish a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) task force to improve a pilot messaging database that failed last week, disrupting 11,000 flights. The outage of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) database prompted the Jan. 11 nationwide …
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By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thousands of abortion opponents rallied in Washington on Friday for the 50th annual “March for Life,” marking a new chapter for a movement that has organized for decades around overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that recognized a women’s right to an abortion. With that ruling now thrown …
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By Douglas Gillison and Chris Prentice (Reuters) – The U.S. accounting watchdog is facing a lawsuit over claims the regulator’s process of handling disciplinary matters behind closed doors is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Texas by the conservative Washington-based New Civil Liberties Alliance, accuses the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) …
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By Jeff Mason and Steve Gorman APTOS, Calif. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden stressed global warming’s role in natural disasters on Thursday as he toured parts of California after three weeks of deadly “atmospheric river” storms inflicted floods and mudslides on a state long plagued by drought and wildfires. “If anybody doubts that the climate …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, considered a possible 2024 Republican presidential contender, will not be forced to reinstate an elected state prosecutor he suspended over his pledge not to bring criminal cases against people seeking or providing abortions, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle in the state …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Friday he would accept an invitation from President Joe Biden to sit down and discuss how to raise the U.S. debt limit. McCarthy, the top Republican in Congress, made the remark on Twitter in response to a comment from Biden that he was going to …
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