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By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) – Actor Johnny Depp returned to the witness stand on Wednesday to refute ex-wife Amber Heard’s testimony in their defamation battle, saying the abuse claims she leveled against him were “unimaginably brutal, cruel and false.” The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star, 58, sued Heard for $50 million and argued that she …

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By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) – Texas state regulators on Wednesday asked a judge to discipline the state’s top lawyer, Attorney General Ken Paxton, arguing he made “dishonest” claims of election fraud in a U.S. Supreme Court petition that supported former President Donald Trump’s challenge to the 2020 presidential election. The Texas State Bar, an agency …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, in coming days to console families of the young shooting victims killed at an elementary school. Biden was speaking at the White House to roll out an executive order on police reform on the two-year …

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By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – Immediately after Tuesday’s school shooting in Texas, conservative politicians reacted with another push for arming school officials to protect students – a notion that has raised strong objections among teachers, researchers and gun control activists. “We can arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly, because …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Manas Mishra WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Lawmakers grilled U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials on Wednesday over what they saw as a lack of urgency in the agency’s response to complaints about possible baby formula contamination at a now shuttered Abbott Laboratories plant that led to severe nationwide shortages. FDA leaders appeared before …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit by a group of gun manufacturers, distributors and retailers challenging the constitutionality of a New York law that allows the state and people affected by gun violence to sue the industry. U.S. District Judge Mae D’Agostino in Albany a request by the …

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(Reuters) -Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke interrupted state officials holding a news conference on Wednesday about the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school, shouting, “You are doing nothing!” O’Rourke, a former congressman who is running for governor of Texas against Republican Greg Abbott, began yelling after Abbott outlined mental …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Congress it has taken “immediate action” to ensure U.S. Capitol Police are aware of unusual aerial events after an April 20 small airplane flight that prompted a security scare. FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen said in a letter to Congress that the agency …

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