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Jan. 6 committee may make criminal referral on witness tampering -Cheney

2 Jul 2022 2 Jul 2022

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack may make a criminal referral to the Justice Department recommending that anybody who tried to influence testimony be prosecuted, Representative Liz Cheney said in an interview broadcast on Thursday. The witness-tampering issue emerged during the Jan. 6 select committee’s sixth hearing on …

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Australians rally against U.S. overturning of key abortion ruling

2 Jul 2022 2 Jul 2022

(Attention to offensive language in paragraph 5) MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians joined raucous protests across the country on Saturday against the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of women’s constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court last week overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, restoring the ability of individual states to ban abortion. …

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Tropical storm Bonnie makes landfall near the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border

2 Jul 2022 2 Jul 2022

(Reuters) – Tropical storm Bonnie made landfall near the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border on Friday evening, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Heavy rainfall is expected across Nicaragua and Costa Rica through Saturday, along with life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides, the center added. The storm is likely to weaken as it crosses land, only to …

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Factbox-What’s in New York’s new gun laws after Supreme Court ruling?

2 Jul 2022 2 Jul 2022

(Reuters) – New York lawmakers revamped the state’s gun laws after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision established an individual right to carry handguns in public for self-defense. The court ruled New York’s restrictive gun-license system was unconstitutional, as were similar regimes in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Here …

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R. Kelly sues Brooklyn jail for putting him on suicide watch

2 Jul 2022 2 Jul 2022

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – R. Kelly on Friday sued the Brooklyn jail that has housed him since his racketeering and sex crimes conviction, saying it wrongly put him on suicide watch after he received a 30-year prison sentence despite knowing he was not suicidal. In a complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court, …

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Trump hires former 9th Circuit judge Kozinski for Twitter court fight

2 Jul 2022 2 Jul 2022

By Jacqueline Thomsen and Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A former California appeals court judge who retired in 2017 following allegations of sexual harassment is now representing former U.S. President Donald Trump in his legal battle with Twitter. Ex-9th Circuit Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski on Friday filed to appear in Trump’s appeal of a trial …

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Google to delete location history of visits to abortion clinics

2 Jul 2022 2 Jul 2022

(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc’s Google will delete location data showing when users visit an abortion clinic, the online search giant said on Friday, following concern that a digital trail could inform law enforcement if an individual terminates a pregnancy illegally. As state laws limiting abortions set in after the U.S. Supreme Court decided last month that …

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Green investors to step up pressure on U.S. utilities after court ruling

1 Jul 2022 1 Jul 2022

By Ross Kerber BOSTON (Reuters) -Activist investment leaders who have urged U.S. companies to cut carbon emissions said on Friday they expect more such efforts following a milestone U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that diminished the power of federal environmental regulators. By constraining the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions …

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Millions hit the road, skies, for U.S. Fourth of July holiday

1 Jul 2022 1 Jul 2022

By Doyinsola Oladipo and Gigi Zamora NEW YORK (Reuters) -The number of people traveling by car and airplane for the Fourth of July holiday is expected to climb near pre-pandemic levels, a test for U.S. airlines that have struggled with inadequate staffing and flight cancellations this summer. The easing of COVID-19 restrictions and bottled-up travel …

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Manchin, Sinema dash Biden hopes for filibuster change on abortion rights

1 Jul 2022 1 Jul 2022

By Trevor Hunnicutt, Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal MADRID/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Thursday proposed that U.S. senators remove a legislative roadblock to restoring abortion rights that were taken away by the Supreme Court last week, a suggestion that was shot down by aides to key Democratic lawmakers. Biden’s proposal to temporarily lift …

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