(Reuters) – South Carolina’s Republican-controlled state House of Representatives late Wednesday passed a “fetal heartbeat” bill to ban abortions about six weeks into pregnancy, before most people know they are pregnant, moving it to the state Senate where its fate is less certain. The measure, which passed mostly along party lines with a vote of…
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans applying for a passport can now avoid having to check the box for male or female in a new travel document policy announced on Wednesday and hailed by the country’s top diplomat as historic progress for those who identify as non-binary. The new non-binary passport was…
By Luc Cohen and Brendan O’Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -The mother of a New Yorker killed in 2017 when a man driving a truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a crowded Manhattan bike path told a hushed courtroom on Wednesday that no punishment meted out to the attacker could compare to her pain. “This…
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A Philadelphia Democrat who promised to hire more police has won her party’s nomination for mayor, while a former TV news anchor has ousted a Republican from the mayor’s office in Jacksonville, Florida, the largest city in the country in which the party had control. Democrat Donna Deegan pulled off…
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -The European Union’s executive body said on Wednesday it has formally adopted a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) to allow financial regulators from Britain and the bloc to cooperate more closely, though stopping short of market access. Britain’s EU exit largely severed its financial sector’s previously unfettered access to the…
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -A man accused of attacking two congressional staff members with a baseball bat this week and threatening to kill one of them, has been charged with assault on an employee of the U.S. government, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, 49, was taken into custody by Fairfax police following…
By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – When graduate student Cai Zhishan decided to spend her Labour Day holidays in northern China, she wished she had enough money to hire a car for the more-than 4,000km (2,500 mile) round trip – the equivalent of driving from New York to Los Angeles. Instead, she chose “travelling like…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed legislation to ban Chinese-owned TikTok from operating in the state to “protect Montanans” from alleged Chinese surveillance, making it the first U.S. state to ban the popular short video app. Here is a detailed list of U.S. allegations against the company and its parent, Bytedance….
By Nick Carey and Barbara Lewis LONDON (Reuters) – Tyre-makers are under pressure to almost literally reinvent the wheel as regulators turn their scrutiny to tyre pollution that is set to surge with the rise of electric vehicles (EVs) and threatens to undermine those cars’ green credentials. When tyres make contact with the road,…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the National Assembly by decree on Wednesday, bringing forward legislative and presidential elections and heading off an attempt by opposition politicians to impeach him. Police and military decked in riot gear guarded the National Assembly building from behind barricades in capital Quito, allowing no one…
