By Doyinsola Oladipo and Gigi Zamora NEW YORK (Reuters) -The number of people traveling by car and airplane for the Fourth of July holiday is expected to climb near pre-pandemic levels, a test for U.S. airlines that have struggled with inadequate staff…
Abortion drug maker says Mississippi can’t ban pill despite Supreme Court ruling
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -The maker of a drug used in medication abortions has told a federal judge that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling eliminating the nationwide right to abortion does not allow Mississippi to stop it from selling the pill…
Texas, Ohio top courts allow abortion bans to take effect
By Nate Raymond and Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -The top courts in Texas and Ohio on Friday allowed the Republican-led states to enforce restrictions and bans on abortions after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the nationwide constitutional ri…
Tesla hit by new lawsuit alleging racial abuse against Black workers
By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Fifteen Black former or current employees at Tesla filed a lawsuit against the electric car maker on Thursday, alleging they were subjected to racial abuse and harassment at its factories. The workers said they w…
Jailed South African paralympic star Pistorius met victim’s father
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South Africa paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius, jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, last week met her father, a lawyer for the Steenkamp family said on Friday. The lawyer, Tania Koen, said Pisto…
Biden predicts states will try to arrest women who travel for abortions
By Jeff Mason and Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden predicted on Friday that some U.S. states will try to arrest women for crossing state lines to get abortions after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to the proce…
In Hong Kong, Xi says ‘one country, two systems’ is here to stay
By Meg Shen and James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) -There is no reason to change Hong Kong’s “one country, two systems” formula of governance, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on a rare visit to the global financial hub after swearing in the city’s new…
Explainer-How the conservative Supreme Court is reshaping U.S. law
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s most consequential term in decades, with blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate change policy, illustrated how its expanded conservative majority i…
Russia seizes control of Sakhalin gas project, raises stakes with West
By Yuka Obayashi, Emily Chow and Ron Bousso TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has raised the stakes in an economic war with the West and its allies with a decree that seizes full control of the Sakhalin-2 gas and oil project in Russia’s…
Biles, Rapinoe among Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
(Note: Language offensive language in para 15, adds quotes, details throughout) By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – Four-times gymnastics Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles and twice soccer World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe are among 17 people set to rec…