By Doina Chiacu (Reuters) -CVS and Walgreens, the two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, will start selling abortion pill mifepristone at stores in several states this month, drawing praise from President Joe Biden who has made access to abortion a key election campaign issue. The announcement Friday comes as a legal challenge to the pill, brought …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday vetoed a bill passed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature that would have banned anyone under age 16 from social media platforms, saying he expected lawmakers to produce “a different, superior bill.” WHY IT IS IMPORTANT The bill was passed by Florida lawmakers last week and …
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By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Odysseus, the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in half a century, lost power and went dormant on Thursday as it entered a frigid lunar nightfall, ending its mission a week after a lopsided touchdown that hindered operations and its scientific output. Intuitive Machines, the Texas-based …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) -A Texas homeowner whose house was destroyed by a massive wildfire raging northeast of Amarillo sued electric utility Xcel Energy on Friday, alleging that a splintered power pole owned by the company fell and started the blaze. The lawsuit by homeowner Melanie McQuiddy, filed in state court in Hemphill County, claims …
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By Brad Brooks LONGMONT, Colorado (Reuters) -A Colorado court sentenced paramedic to five years in prison on Friday after he was convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after police put him in a chokehold and medics injected him with a powerful sedative. Jurors in December found emergency …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – PFLAG, a leading U.S. LGBTQ advocacy group, on Friday won a temporary restraining order blocking demands from Texas’ Republican attorney general for information about the group’s work with families of transgender minors seeking gender-affirming treatments, such as puberty blockers and hormones. The order, which will remain in effect for at …
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(Reuters) – NASA said on Friday it is shutting down a more than $2 billion project to test satellite servicing like fueling in space, citing higher costs and schedule delays. The space agency said in October that the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) project continues to face an increase in costs and is …
By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A lawyer for Donald Trump on Friday told a Georgia judge that the lead prosecutor who charged the former U.S. president with election interference should be disqualified because she may have lied to the court about her undisclosed affair with a top deputy. The lawyer, Steve Sadow, said Fulton County District …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Up to 12 feet (3.66 m) of snow is forecast to fall in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains through the weekend, as a one-two punch of dual brutal cold fronts slams into the Pacific Northwest, the National Weather Service said. Rich Bann, a meteorologist with the NWS, said the western slope …
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By Andrew Goudsward and Andy Sullivan FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) -Donald Trump appeared in federal court in Florida on Friday to ask a judge to push back his criminal trial on charges of mishandling classified documents until the thick of the U.S. presidential campaign. The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination looked on as his …
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