By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo, who is also a member of the city council, missed a second council meeting on Thursday at which he was to face questions from the many critics of his response to the May 24 mass shooting at an elementary school that killed 19 children …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A Jeep carrying a group of migrants crashed into a trailer after evading a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) checkpoint in the town of Encinal, Texas, on Thursday, leaving four dead and three hospitalized, authorities said. The crash occurred just days after the deadliest human smuggling incident on record in the …
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By Stephanie van den Berg AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Demand for a Dutch service offering abortion pills surged more than fourfold after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a women’s rights campaigner said on Thursday. Requests for help via the Aid Access website, which offers abortion consultations remotely and ships medication from overseas …
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By Joseph Ax and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -This week’s testimony at congressional hearings on the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol assault portrayed an enraged Donald Trump throwing food against a White House wall, voicing support for threats against his vice president, and dismissing the news that some of his supporters had come armed with rifles. Democrats …
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By Lawrence Hurley and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed limits on the federal government’s authority to issue sweeping regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants in a ruling that undermines President Joe Biden’s plans to tackle climate change and could constrain various agencies on other issues. The …
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By Sofia Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden can end a program put in place by his predecessor former President Donald Trump, which forces non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their U.S. court dates. Here are some answers to questions about how we …
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave a major boost to President Joe Biden’s drive to end a hardline immigration policy begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that forced tens of thousands of migrants to stay in Mexico to await U.S. hearings on their asylum claims. The justices, in a …
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By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear American Axle & Manufacturing Inc’s bid to revive its patent on technology for quieting driveshaft noise, turning away a case that may have clarified the circumstances under which inventions warrant a patent. The justices rejected American Axle’s appeal of a lower …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said it has opened a probe into a division of the New York City Police Department looking at whether it engages in gender-biased policing, including how it handles investigations of sexual assault and treatment of survivors. The Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday that …
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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York lawmakers began debating how to loosen the state’s gun-licensing laws in an emergency session on Thursday to conform with a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right for people to carry weapons in public for self-defense. The state’s Democratic leaders decried last week’s Supreme …
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