By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed by voice vote President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as the top auto safety regulator, the first to win approval since January 2017 and as U.S. traffic deaths have risen to the highest level in 16 years. Steven Cliff has been serving as deputy …
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet released its decision that looks set to dramatically scale back abortion rights, but one of the next legal battles has already begun in a Mississippi court. That is where the manufacturer of a pill used to carry out medication abortions, Las Vegas-based …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday “to grieve with the community that lost twenty-one lives in the horrific elementary school shooting,” the White House said on Thursday. (Reporting by Rami Ayyub; Editing by Leslie Adler)
By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the strictest abortion ban in the United States, one that prohibits abortions from fertilization and allows private citizens to sue those who help women terminate their pregnancies. “I promised Oklahomans that as governor I would sign every piece of pro-life legislation that …
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By Andrea Shalal and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden sought to reform federal and local policing with a broad executive order on Wednesday, the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd, while goading a seemingly immovable Congress to act on police and gun reform. The order directs all federal agencies …
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By David Morgan and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats and some Republicans in the U.S. Senate discussed tightening reviews of gun buyers following the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade, although members of both parties acknowledged action was unlikely. There is a wide gap between the two parties with Republicans arguing that new limits …
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(Reuters) -Walmart Inc and CVS Health Corp said on Wednesday they would stop filling prescriptions for controlled substances issued by telehealth startups Cerebral Inc and Done Health. Cerebral and Done are known for treating patients with ADHD, prescribing stimulants such as Adderall. Walmart confirmed the move to Reuters and said the decision was made after …
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By Brad Brooks and Gabriella Borter UVALDE, Texas (Reuters) – The Texas gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers posted an online message warning that he was going to shoot up an elementary school minutes before he attacked, Governor Greg Abbott said on Wednesday, as harrowing new details of the massacre emerged. The gunman, …
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By James Oliphant (Reuters) – Melissa Zeidan was running errands in her San Francisco neighborhood on Tuesday – filling her car’s gas tank, returning some clothes – while two of her young children were at school. When she learned the news of the shootings in Uvalde, Texas, she immediately started sobbing. “When it’s an elementary …
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By Brad Brooks UVALDE, Texas (Reuters) -Frank Salazar pointed down the road at the low-slung buildings of Robb Elementary School, just two blocks from his home, struggling to make sense of the massacre that unfolded there less than 24 hours earlier, stunning his little Texas town. Salazar, 18, a senior at Uvalde High School, went …
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