By Jason Lange (Reuters) -The head of the Uvalde, Texas, school police force quit his City Council seat amid criticism over his response to a mass shooting at an elementary school, according to a resignation letter the city government released on Saturday. Pete Arredondo was elected to Uvalde’s City Council a few weeks before the …
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(Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against the former president, its vice chair Liz Cheney said. Cheney, in an interview aired on Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” program, also said the department does not …
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(This July 2 story corrects spelling of Roderick in paragraph) By Jason Lange and Jonathan Landay (Reuters) – Police killed Jayland Walker, a Black man in Ohio, by shooting him dozens of times as he ran from officers following a traffic stop, a lawyer for his family said, citing a review of police body-worn camera …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests and “threatening activity” have increased. Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley made the request in a July 1 letter to Hogan, noting …
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By James Oliphant ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich (Reuters) – The latest front in the U.S. war over abortion was waged last week during an idyllic summer evening on Michigan’s lakeshore. Outside a park where kids ate waffle cones and hundreds of people listened to a concert in the band shell, volunteers collected signatures in support …
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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York state passed a law on Friday banning guns from many public places, including Times Square, and requiring gun-license applicants to prove their shooting proficiency and submit their social media accounts for review by government officials. The law, passed in an emergency legislative session, was forced by a …
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By Jeff Mason and Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden predicted on Friday that some U.S. states will try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the procedures nationwide. Thirteen Republican-led states banned or severely restricted the procedure under so-called “trigger laws” …
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By Nate Raymond and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -The top courts in Texas and Ohio on Friday allowed the Republican-led states to enforce restrictions and bans on abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the nationwide constitutional right to abortion. The Texas Supreme Court late on Friday allowed a nearly century-old abortion ban to …
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(Corrects paragraph 34 to attribute testimony about Trump throwing a plate to Cassidy Hutchinson, not Kayleigh McEnaney) By Richard Cowan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on Jan. 6, 2021, when his security detail declined to take him to the U.S. Capitol where his …
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By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) – A self-taught New York artist took advantage of the pandemic to create a diverse array of dioramas that depict urban Brooklyn scenes in addition to a host of other more rural settings. Aaron Winston Kinard has worked for decades for Barnard College in Manhattan. Around four years ago, …
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