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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – United Airlines has been sued by two longtime flight attendants who say they were excluded from highly coveted assignments to work on charter flights for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team because of their racial background and age. In a complaint filed on Wednesday with the Los Angeles County Superior …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday refused to block the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from terminating a Puerto Rican bank’s access to the U.S. central banking system, as part of a crackdown on lenders with links to Venezuela. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan said Banco San …

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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday asked former President Donald Trump whether he wants to appear on television when he stands trial in federal court on charges of attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington asked Trump’s lawyers to give their opinion by Nov. …

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By Ted Hesson and Daniel Wiessner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal appeals on Friday sided with Texas Governor Greg Abbott on technical grounds over a 2021 executive order that restricted transport of migrants through the state, saying a lower court should dismiss a related legal challenge. In a 2-1 split, a three-judge panel of the …

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The latest mass shooting in the United States, which killed 18 people in Maine, prompted U.S. Representative Jared Golden, whose constituents died in the massacre, to reverse his opposition to a ban on assault-style weapons. But his change of heart does not change the equation in Washington, where President …

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By Gabriella Borter and Brad Brooks LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) – Dr. Richard King was driving home from the Central Maine Medical Center on Wednesday night when he received an urgent call from a fellow trauma surgeon alerting him that victims of a mass casualty event were flooding the hospital. King, the trauma medical director, immediately …

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By Richard Valdmanis LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) – Residents of Lewiston, a hard-bitten former mill town in central Maine, struggled on Thursday with a new reality: the scourge of American mass shootings had arrived. Eighteen people were killed in gunfire in Maine’s second-largest city on Wednesday night, rocking a tightly knit community and shattering the state’s …

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