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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two key U.S. Republican senators agreed to a revised federal moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence to five years and allow states to adopt rules on child online safety and protecting artists’ image or likeliness. Senate Commerce Committee chair Ted Cruz originally proposed securing compliance by blocking states that …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration sued Los Angeles on Monday over policies limiting city cooperation with federal immigration authorities, continuing a confrontation over the Republican’s deportation efforts in a largely Democratic city. The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Justice Department in Los Angeles federal court, alleges that policies barring city resources …

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By Jeff Mason and Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration said on Monday that an investigation had concluded Harvard University violated federal civil rights law for failing to address harassment of Jewish and Israeli students, though critics and some faculty say such probes are a pretext to assert federal control over schools. The …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday judicial decisions that favored transgender people in cases from North Carolina, West Virginia, Idaho and Oklahoma, including in legal challenges to state health insurance programs that deny coverage for patients seeking gender-affirming medical treatment. Acting in appeals by officials in North Carolina …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to attend the opening on Tuesday of a temporary migrant detention center in southern Florida dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, a source familiar with the matter said. The step comes as Trump, a Republican, has sought to ramp up the detention and deportation of migrants, saying the measure was …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case involving a Massachusetts public school teacher who sued on free speech grounds after her school fired her in what she called retaliation for social media posts made prior to her employment. The justices turned away plaintiff Kari MacRae’s appeal …

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By Tim Reid, Pilar Olivares and Leah Douglas OXNARD, California (Reuters) -Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the U.S. illegally. Tate knows the farms around her well. And she says …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a Republican-led challenge on free speech grounds to a provision of federal campaign finance law that limits spending by political parties in coordination with candidates running for office in a case involving Vice President JD Vance.  The justices took up an …

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(Corrects paragraph 4 in June 27 story to reflect that Bristol Myers owns full rights to therapy Abecma; the error had also appeared in two previous versions of the story) By Siddhi Mahatole (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had eliminated risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS), a safety program …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Meta Platforms and TikTok owner ByteDance must face a wrongful death lawsuit by the mother of a 15-year-old Manhattan boy who died while “subway surfing” on a moving train, a New York state judge ruled. Justice Paul Goetz ruled on Friday that Norma Nazario can try to prove Meta …

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