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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday it plans to restore flight privileges to about 2,000 customers who were barred from flights after failing to comply with mask rules. The Biden administration on Monday said it would no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation and airlines after a …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will pick Arizona’s top prosecutor, Gary Restaino as the interim director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives until a permanent leader is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, a White House official said on Wednesday. The bureau’s current acting director, Marvin Richardson, will remain at the agency …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is still working with Congress on marijuana policy, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Wednesday, adding that President Joe Biden was reviewing his clemency powers. (Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt; Editing by Leslie Adler)

By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – South Carolina’s Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily halted the execution of a condemned man planned for next week that would have been the first firing-squad execution in the United States in more than a decade. Richard Moore, 57, was convicted in 2001 of murdering a store clerk in a 1999 …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of 21 U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday voicing concern about what they called disinformation on the platform aimed at Spanish speakers about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The disinformation is spread by Moscow-backed outlets like RT en Espanol, among others, said the letter …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. Court of Appeals on Wednesday said it will not reconsider its decision in January to uphold California’s net neutrality law. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in January ruled 3-0 that a 2017 decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reverse federal …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress will have to act if it wants to extend a sweeping, pandemic-related expulsion policy known as Title 42 that has effectively closed down the U.S. asylum system, the White House said on Wednesday. “Right now we are planning and preparing for the end of Title 42 enforcement on May 23rd,” White …

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(Reuters) – U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky was taken into custody in connection to a November 2021 shooting as he arrived from Barbados at the Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, NBC News reported. Los Angeles Police Department officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained the 33-year-old artist who arrived on a private plane from …

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