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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers want to force a sale of TikTok by its Chinese owner or ban it from app stores, which legal experts said would set up a showdown with the social media company over the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment free speech protections. While the bill itself does not say anything …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money case said on Thursday they were not opposed to a 30-day delay in the trial, currently set to begin on March 25, due to a recent disclosure of thousands of pages of documents by federal prosecutors. A delay to the first-ever criminal trial …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday pushed the federal judiciary to rethink a new policy designed to curb the practice of “judge shopping” used by conservative litigants to steer cases challenging President Joe Biden’s agenda to judges perceived as sympathetic. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor said he hoped …

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By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) – California needs to triple its annual carbon emissions reductions to meet its 2030 target, a report by consulting firm Beacon Economics and San Francisco-based think tank Next 10 said on Thursday. The state’s greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2021 to 381.3 million metric tons, up 3.4% from a …

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By Nathan Layne and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -The Republican National Committee said on Wednesday its community centers focused on voters of color would remain open, although a source said plans to open dozens more such centers had been scrapped by the Trump campaign. The community centers are aimed at organizing Black, Hispanic, and Asian American …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Oklahoma’s medical examiner on Wednesday ruled that nonbinary teenager Nex Benedict died by suicide in a death that friends and family said came one day after a beating at school that culminated a pattern of bullying due to their gender identity. The case of Benedict, 16, has drawn scrutiny from …

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