NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York enacted a law on Monday intended to protect the state’s doctors from prosecution by other states that have banned abortions when they prescribe and mail out abortion pills. New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed the bill a few days after a New York doctor was indicted by …
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By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will take steps to defund the federal Education Department, a White House official said on Monday, adding an announcement on the planned actions may come later in February. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Trump advisers were considering executive actions to …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to become director of national intelligence received a major boost on Monday when Senator Susan Collins said she would back President Donald Trump’s nominee. “I look forward to working with Ms. Gabbard to strengthen our national security,” Collins, a moderate who is one of …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nicole Jao WASHINGTON (Reuters) – (This Jan. 31 story has been corrected to show that Phillips 66 expects tariffs to divert Canadian oil away from the U.S. markets, not production cuts in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain region, in paragraph 9) U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he expects his …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz said on Monday he would block Senate votes on President Donald Trump’s nominees for diplomatic positions in protest over moves to close the U.S. Agency for International Development and fold it into the State Department. Under the chamber’s rules, one senator can hold up nominations even if the …
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(This Jan. 25 story has been refiled to correct the spelling of ‘Peralto’ in paragraphs 14 and 15) By Andrew Hay ALAMO, N.M. (Reuters) – – Twenty-eight-year old Ambrose Begay died after a fentanyl overdose under a tree 125 yards from his home on the Alamo Navajo reservation in southern New Mexico two years ago. …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday admonished lawyers for Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively not to publicly discuss the actors’ competing civil lawsuits stemming from Lively’s claim that Baldoni sexually harassed her while filming the movie “It Ends With Us.” Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb complained to U.S. District Judge …
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(Reuters) -The Kansas City Chiefs are chasing an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl crown, while the Philadelphia Eagles are eyeing a second title overall in the NFL’s championship game on Feb. 9 in New Orleans. The clash will be a rematch of Super Bowl LVII in 2023 when the Chiefs defeated the Eagles 38-35. EAGLES …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and his team are having discussions about merging USAID into the State Department in order to significantly reduce the size of the agency’s workforce for efficiency purposes, a senior White House official told Reuters on Monday. The Trump administration planned to send a notification to Congress soon on Trump’s …
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By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two U.S. senators who will vote this week on whether to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as the top U.S. health official demanded on Monday that he recuse himself from all agency matters related to vaccines, arguing that President Donald Trump’s pick holds unscientific views about their …
