By Gabriella Borter and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – State legislatures are wrestling with how much to restrict or expand abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Here is a snapshot of pending and passed legislation seeking to restrict or protect access in 2023. RESTRICTIONS FLORIDA: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis…
By Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee to the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, overcoming rare Democratic opposition from Senator Joe Manchin. Nancy Abudu, a lawyer for the nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) legal advocacy group, was confirmed on a 49-47 vote. She will be the…
By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Andy Warhol’s estate lost its U.S. Supreme Court copyright fight with celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith on Thursday as the justices faulted the famed pop artist’s use of her photo of Prince in a silkscreen series depicting the charismatic rock star. The 7-2 ruling, authored by liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, upheld…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -Five TikTok users in Montana who create content posted on the short-video app filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to block the state’s new ban on the Chinese-owned platform. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte on Wednesday signed legislation to ban TikTok in the state, effective Jan. 1. The five users seek…
NEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co is seeking documents from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as part of a lawsuit against the bank by women who say they were abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, court records showed on Thursday. A lawyer for Bragg took part in a May 16 telephone conference in…
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The hammer of the gun actor Alec Baldwin was holding when it fired a live round killing “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins may have been intentionally modified, New Mexico special prosecutors said in a court filing this week. The comments came a month after prosecutors dropped a criminal charge against Baldwin…
(Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday on optimism that a deal to avoid a catastrophic U.S. debt default could be reached over the weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 47.04 points, or 0.14%, at the open to 33,582.95. The S&P 500 opened higher by 6.10 points, or 0.15%, at 4,204.15,…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Fed president John Williams declined on Friday to connect the current monetary policy outlook to new work of his that reconfirms major economies are still in a fundamentally low interest rate world. “I’m not going to opine on what monetary policy should or should not do” in light of…
By Hyonhee Shin and Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -President Yoon Suk Yeol met some South Korean survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on the sidelines of a G7 summit on Friday. The meeting comes as Yoon pushes to close a chapter on historic feuds that have dominated ties with…
Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Friday repeated her call for the U.S. central bank to hire an outside party to analyze the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and against using that failure as a “pretext” for making broad changes to bank regulation. “We should consider whether there are necessary – and targeted – adjustments…
