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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic on Wednesday to South Carolina’s bid to strip Planned Parenthood of funding under the Medicaid program in a case that could bolster efforts by Republican-led states to deprive the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider of public money.  The justices heard arguments in South …

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By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told staff on Wednesday it plans to shake up its enforcement and exams divisions by having them report under new deputy directors, the latest in a series of changes at the agency under Republican leadership. Under the reorganization, detailed in a memo seen …

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By Joseph Ax and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Wisconsin voters elected Susan Crawford to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, maintaining the court’s 4-3 liberal majority in a setback for President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk, who had backed her conservative rival. The election was widely seen as an early referendum on Trump’s …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal judge said Jewish groups may pursue a lawsuit accusing the University of California, Berkeley, of tolerating an “unrelenting” stream of antisemitic harassment toward Jewish students and faculty. In a decision made public on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Donato said two Jewish groups may pursue equal protection, free …

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By Chris Prentice and Dawn Kopecki NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top two leaders of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s foreign corrupt practices unit are leaving the agency, according to two people familiar with the matter, at a time when the Trump administration has been hitting the brakes on anti-corruption enforcement. Charles Cain, the …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Senate Commerce Committee may subpoena the U.S. Army to obtain a report detailing why it routinely failed to use a safety system known as ADS-B on helicopter flights around Reagan Washington National Airport, its chair said on Wednesday. An army Black Hawk helicopter did not have the system operating …

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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday against Medical Marijuana Inc in its bid to fend off a lawsuit by a commercial truck driver who was fired for failing a drug test after taking cannabidiol, or CBD, that he said was falsely sold as lacking the psychoactive ingredient present in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. private payrolls increased more than expected in March, but that did not change economists’ views that the labor market was slowing against the backdrop of mounting economic uncertainty due to tariffs. Private payrolls increased by 155,000 jobs last month after an upwardly revised 84,000 rise in February, the ADP National Employment Report …

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