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U.S. appeals court rules to keep Texas abortion ban in effect
(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday refused a petition by the U.S. Department of Justice to put on hold Texas's restrictive abortion law, which bars the procedure as early as six weeks into pr...
Oct 14, 2021
Former U.S. President Clinton hospitalized -CNN
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was hospitalized on Tuesday in California with a suspected blood infection, CNN reported on Thursday. CNN said Clinton, 75, was in the intensi...
Oct 14, 2021
Deputy FBI chief fired by Trump wins retirement benefits in settlement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who sued the United States and the FBI after he was fired by former President Donald Trump's administration in March 2018, has won a se...
Oct 14, 2021
Biden signs bill raising U.S. debt limit, averting default
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation temporarily raising the government's borrowing limit to $28.9 trillion, pushing off the deadline for debt default only unt...
Oct 14, 2021
U.S. administers 405.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 405,444,558 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 490,951,045 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
Oct 14, 2021
Illinois nursing home fined for COVID-19 safety violations
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - An Illinois nursing facility was fined more than $83,000 for failing to protect its staff from COVID-19, the Labor Department said on Thursday, the largest penalty under...
Oct 14, 2021
Ex-Minneapolis police officer seeks reduced prison term in woman’s death
(Reuters) - Lawyers for a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman while responding to a 911 call in 2017 are asking for his prison term to be significantly reduced to 41 months in a...
Oct 14, 2021
Teenage boy jailed for New York murder of college student Tessa Majors
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - A teenage boy was sentenced on Thursday to nine years to life in prison for the 2019 murder of 18-year-old college student Tessa Majors in New York. Luchiano Lewis, 16, pleaded...
Oct 14, 2021
NY artist nails it with mosaic grotto in Times Square
By Dan Fastenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York artist has assembled more than 350,000 acrylic fingernails to create a neon and pale pink grotto - a tribute to surviving the coronavirus pandemic. "A...
Oct 14, 2021
Ex-Boeing 737 MAX chief technical pilot indicted for fraud – U.S. Justice Dept
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former chief technical pilot for Boeing Co was charged on Thursday with deceiving federal regulators concerning the company's 737 MAX plane, the U.S. Justice Department said. ...
Oct 14, 2021
