BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Republicans have eliminated an elected position days before an exoneree who overwhelmingly won the New Orleans-based clerk seat was set to take office. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry quietly signed legislation abolishing the longstanding Orleans Parish clerk of criminal court position into law Thursday, according to Louisiana Secretary of State …
May 2 (Reuters) – A trial beginning in New Mexico on Monday could prompt a judge to order sweeping changes to how Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp operate – a move Meta Platforms has warned could force it to withdraw from the state. The case, which will be tried before a judge in Santa Fe, stems …
May 2 (Reuters) – An Iranian proposal so far rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump would open shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade of Iran while leaving talks on Iran’s nuclear programme for later, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday. Four weeks since the United States and Israel suspended …
In what Gov. Gavin Newsom hailed as a major milestone, his $20 billion Delta tunnel largely cleared another chokepoint last week — but it still faces obstacles of a different magnitude. For more than half a century, California’s leaders have debated rerouting water around, rather than through, the network of rivers, farmland and marshes of …
BAMAKO, May 2 (Reuters) – Malian authorities are investigating soldiers suspected of involvement in last week’s coordinated attacks on army bases across the country by militants linked to al Qaeda and separatist Tuareg rebels, a judicial official said. The list of potential accomplices includes three active duty soldiers, a retired soldier and a soldier who had …
The separatist fighters, meanwhile, said earlier in the day that they captured a strategic military camp in the northern town of Tessalit after the withdrawal of Mali’s army and its Russian allies from there. The claim by the Azawad Liberation Front separatist group was the latest setback for Mali’s ruling junta, which lost control of …
May 1 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a federal rule allowing the abortion drug mifepristone to be dispensed through the mail, significantly curtailing access to the drug nationwide and particularly in states that have banned abortion. A conservative three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in London has cautioned Americans in the UK to stay alert in public places, keep a low profile and review their personal security plans after British government officials said earlier that they were raising the national terrorism threat to its second-highest level. “The recent increase in terrorist …
PARIS, May 2 (Reuters) – NATO is working with the United States to understand the details of the U.S. decision for a planned drawdown of U.S. troops from Germany, NATO spokesperson Allison Hart said on Saturday. “We are working with the U.S. to understand the details of their decision on force posture in Germany. This …
