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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Southwest Airlines flight aborted takeoff at Orlando airport on Thursday after it mistakenly began to depart on a taxiway rather than the runway, the latest in a series of recent incidents that have raised concerns about U.S. aviation safety. An air traffic controller at the Florida airport canceled …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A conservative U.S. appeals court judge took the unusual step on Thursday of recording himself handling several handguns and explaining their mechanisms to explain why his colleagues had wrongly upheld a California law banning magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. U.S. Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, who was …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative advocacy groups on Thursday asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject a news distortion complaint over CBS’s “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris that aired in October. The Center for Individual Freedom, Americans for Tax Reform, Taxpayers Protection Alliance and other groups called on FCC Chair Brendan …

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By Luc Cohen, Ted Hesson (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration’s response to a judicial request for more details on timing of deportation flights carrying hundreds of Venezuelan migrants was “woefully insufficient,” a judge said on Thursday, accusing officials of evading their responsibilities under an order he issued. Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is weighing …

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By Michael Erman and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) -The White House is considering former Republican Representative Michael Burgess to run the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after withdrawing the nomination of vaccine critic Dave Weldon last week, according to three sources familiar with the matter. One of the sources said Burgess was …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s firing of two commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission puts the U.S. consumer protection and antitrust agency in uncharted waters, its actions are in legal limbo until courts clarify the status of the fired commissioners, experts said. Firing Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, both Democrats, handed Trump’s …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -New York State’s top court on Thursday struck down a New York City law that would have permitted more than 800,000 legal non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. In a 6-1 decision, the Court of Appeals ruled that the law, passed by the City Council in 2021, violates the state constitution. …

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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” from a country song of the same name. U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani in Los Angeles in a ruling on Wednesday said the writers of Vince Vance …

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