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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – A wind-driven wildfire on a hillside above the southern California city of San Bernardino burned several homes and forced evacuations before it was brought under control on Tuesday, firefighters reported. Video from local TV station KTLA 5 showed at least five residences had burned after the fast-moving brush fire jumped …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New York’s suburban Nassau County has passed a bill to ban wearing of masks with aim to hide the identity of pro-Palestinian protesters against U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza. The ban on mask would cover any sort of public protest, but lawmakers in the Republican-controlled county say …

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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – An Ohio judge on Tuesday upheld a Republican-backed state law banning gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors, rebuffing a challenge by families of transgender adolescents. The ruling by Judge Michael Holbrook of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas came after a non-jury trial last …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA said Tuesday that it pushed a routine SpaceX launch of astronauts to the International Space Station back a month to spend more time analyzing issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which remains docked at the station. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft was initially scheduled to launch four astronauts to the ISS on August …

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By Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Alaska Airlines flight attendants feared passengers had been sucked out of the plane in the chaos following the Jan. 5 mid-air panel blowout on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet, according to harrowing testimony released by safety experts on Tuesday.  The comments gathered from interviews with attendants – who were not …

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By Liya Cui (Reuters) – A former Kansas police chief who made news last year when he raided a local weekly newspaper will be charged with interfering in the judicial process, two special prosecutors said. The raid on the Marion County Record newspaper led by former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody was widely condemned by …

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(Reuters) -More than 133,000 homes and businesses in Florida were still without power early on Tuesday, a day after Hurricane Debby slammed into the state’s Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us. The number was down from a peak of 350,000 outages on Monday. Debby, now a tropical storm, drenched northern Florida and killed several …

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