By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday largely upheld a New Jersey law that broadly restricts carrying guns at a variety of “sensitive places” including parks, hospitals, libraries, museums, beaches, zoos and casinos. A 2-1 panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a lower-court judge wrongly concluded …
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By Jan Wolfe and Nate Raymond (Reuters) -An extraordinary spat is occurring within the U.S. judiciary concerning a flurry of Supreme Court decisions backing President Donald Trump, with judges voicing confusion over the rulings issued on an emergency basis while a Trump-appointed justice accused some of them of defying the nation’s top judicial body. These …
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(Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, an early setback for the White House in an unprecedented legal battle that could upend the central bank’s long-held independence. The preliminary ruling by U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C. found that the Trump …
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(Reuters) -A judge in Atlanta said on Tuesday he would dismiss racketeering charges against all 61 people accused of a criminal conspiracy for their roles in trying block construction of a police training center they derisively dubbed “Cop City.” Speaking from the bench at a pretrial motions hearing, Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer said he …
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By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug delivery system for a type of bladder cancer, offering a potential surgery-free option for patients. The drug release system, branded as Inlexzo, was approved for patients with a type of high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who did not …
(Corrects transposed words in the first paragraph) By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than a week after President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had blown up a boat off Venezuela, the operation – which killed 11 people – largely remains a mystery to many in Washington. Trump’s team released a video of …
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By Sandy Hooper and Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Roughly 67 shipping containers fell from a berthed ship into the water at Southern California’s Port of Long Beach on Tuesday morning, emergency responders at the nation’s second-busiest seaport said. No injuries were reported and no other port operations were affected. The containers fell from …
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By Jeff Mason and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Tuesday said it would support a forensic analysis of the signature on a letter purportedly given by Donald Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that Trump’s aides say is not the president’s. Trump, who was friends with Epstein before becoming president …
(Reuters) – Top health officials under U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are compiling examples of harmful effects from COVID-19 vaccines on pregnant women to share with the public, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary and …
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Fired U.S. CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was ousted after resisting changes to vaccine policy that were advanced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and that she believed contradicted scientific evidence, will testify to U.S. Congress next week. Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, …
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