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Texas top court rules against woman who sought abortion for medical emergency

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -The Texas Supreme Court on Monday overturned a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed a pregnant woman to get an emergency abortion under the medical exception for the state’s near-total abortion ban, granting a petition by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. The unanimous ruling from the Texas Supreme Court came …

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Harvard faculty rally around beleaguered university president Claudine Gay

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Several hundred faculty members at Harvard University on Sunday signed a petition asking school administrators to not bend to political pressure to fire the school’s president over her Congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus. A concisely worded petition was signed by at least 570 professors and was delivered Sunday evening …

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US seeks speedy Supreme Court review of Trump claim he is immune from prosecution

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By Andrew Chung, John Kruzel and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. special counsel prosecuting Donald Trump on federal charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat asked the Supreme Court on Monday to launch a fast-track review of the former president’s claim he cannot be tried on those charges. The Supreme Court said …

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SpaceX postpones planned launch of US military’s secretive X-37B spaceplane

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -A planned Monday night launch of the U.S. military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission to orbit, and its first flight atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, was postponed for at least 24 hours, SpaceX said. The flight was called off for the …

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US judge upholds Texas TikTok ban on state-owned devices

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Monday upheld Texas’ ban on state employees’, including public university employees, using Chinese-owned short video app TikTok on state-owned devices or networks. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed suit in July arguing that Texas’ state government TikTok ban “is preventing or seriously impeding faculty …

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US House expects Wednesday vote on formalizing Biden impeachment inquiry – aide

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on Wednesday to formalize its impeachment inquiry of Democratic President Joe Biden, a Republican leadership aide said on Monday. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity because official plans for floor action remained fluid. Earlier on Monday, a Republican lawmaker …

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US House passes bill banning uranium imports from Russia

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a ban on imports of Russian uranium as lawmakers seek to add pressure on Moscow for its war on Ukraine, though the measure has waivers in case of supply concerns for domestic reactors. The bill must pass the Senate and be signed …

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‘End of Mr. Giuliani’ if jury awards millions in damages to election workers, lawyer says

12 Dec 2023 12 Dec 2023

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A lawyer for two Georgia election workers accused Rudy Giuliani on Monday of “destroying” his clients’ reputations by falsely accusing them of working to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election against Donald Trump. A jury heard opening arguments in a civil defamation trial focused only on how much Giuliani will …

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Israel must comply with laws of war under US weapons assistance policy

11 Dec 2023 11 Dec 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israel is no exception to U.S. policy that any country receiving its weapons must comply with the laws of war, the State Department said on Monday after Washington sold about 14,000 tank shells to Israel without congressional review. The Biden administration on Friday used emergency authority under the Arms Export Control Act …

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Expelled U.S. Representative Santos in plea talks -court filing

11 Dec 2023 11 Dec 2023

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors said on Monday they are engaged in plea negotiations with former U.S. Representative George Santos to resolve criminal charges ahead of trial, a court filing showed. (Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler)