By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes the state the only one in the country to require displaying the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately announced it would sue to block the law, saying it violates the …
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(This June 18 story has been corrected to rectify the type of nuclear fuel to ‘high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU),’ from ‘highly enriched uranium,’ in paragraph 8) (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy capacity, including by speeding permitting and creating new incentives for advanced nuclear …
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By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -Time is running out for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to qualify for 2024’s first U.S. presidential debate, with the independent candidate counting on a longshot bid with a U.S. elections agency to put him on the stage. CNN, host of the June 27 debate, says only President Joe Biden …
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By Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When news broke of U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to provide a path to citizenship for certain immigrants who entered the country illegally and are married to U.S. citizens, Pennsylvania-based immigration lawyer Bridget Cambria didn’t need long to think of clients it could help. Over the …
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By Andrew Hay and Jose Luis Gonzalez CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – A group of migrants walked into Mexico on Saturday against pedestrian traffic on the international bridge between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez minutes after being deported from the United States under the Biden administration’s new asylum ban. The mainly twenty-something Venezuelan men were …
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By Gram Slattery RACINE, Wisconsin (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sought to present himself as the best candidate for the U.S. economy at a Tuesday rally in Racine, Wisconsin, where a local factory that he broke ground on six years ago has proven to be a major flop. The former president also vowed to …
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(Reuters) -Willie Mays, the Hall of Fame centerfielder whose all-around skills made him one of greatest baseball players of all time, died on Tuesday at the age of 93, Major League Baseball announced. Mays, who brought an explosive exuberance to the game in his peak years, died of heart failure, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. …
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(Reuters) – A wildfire burning northwest of Los Angeles on Sunday has forced the evacuation of over 1,000 people from a popular outdoor recreation area and burned over 12,000 acres, authorities said. Some 400 firefighters armed with 70 firetrucks and two bulldozers are battling the Post fire, which is just 2% contained, according to Cal …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The race between U.S. Representative Bob Good, a prominent hardline House Republican, and a primary challenger backed by both Donald Trump and a key group of moderate Republicans, remained too close to call on Tuesday night. The winner of the contest between Good, chair of the House Freedom Caucus, and …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday suffered a jurisdictional setback in a lawsuit challenging its new rule capping credit card late fees at $8 when a federal appeals court held the case should stay in Texas and not be sent to a judge in Washington, D.C. The ruling by …
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