By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to remove a Democratic member from a federal labor board while his administration appeals a ruling that said her firing was illegal and had reinstated her. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a bid by Idaho and West Virginia to enforce their state laws banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public schools, taking up another civil rights challenge to Republican-backed restrictions on transgender people. The justices took up the appeals by Idaho …
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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to hear a bid by Montana to revive a law that requires parental consent for minors to obtain an abortion, a measure challenged by reproductive health and abortion provider Planned Parenthood as a violation of the Republican-led state’s constitution. The justices turned away …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York state was sued on Wednesday by the National Retail Federation over a new law requiring retailers to tell customers when their personal data are being used to set prices, known as surveillance pricing. The world’s largest retail trade group said New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act, which …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty on Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses but cleared of more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. Combs, 55, had pleaded not guilty to all five felony counts he faced. Here’s what’s expected to come next in the case: COMBS REMAINS JAILED FOR …
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By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean “Diddy” Combs’ will remain behind bars for now, a judge ruled on Wednesday, after the music mogul was cleared of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put him behind bars for life but found guilty of lesser prostitution-related offenses. In rejecting the defense’s …
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(Reuters) -An area of low pressure is forecast to develop along a weakening frontal boundary near Florida and has a 20% chance of developing into a cyclone within the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Thursday. “A tropical or subtropical depression could form in this region over the weekend or …
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By Daniel Cole ALTADENA, California (Reuters) -Terry Kilgore lives alone in his Altadena neighborhood in California, sleeping in a recreational vehicle and surrounded by empty lots that were once the site of family homes. In January, those homes were burned to the ground. Six months after the wildfires that devastated the eastern and western flanks …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the migrant returned to the U.S. in early June after being wrongfully deported to his native El Salvador, reported severe mistreatment in a high-security prison in the Latin American nation, according to a court filing on Wednesday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Wednesday’s filing in the U.S. District Court …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Seven people were missing after a fire and powerful explosion leveled a commercial fireworks facility in rural northern California, authorities said on Wednesday. Aerial footage from local news media showed the large warehouse-like building blown to pieces Tuesday evening in an enormous, thundering fireball that rocked a wide area around the …
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