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Friday, June 2, 2017

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to revive travel ban

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his plan to temporarily ban travelers from six Muslim-majority nations after it was blocked by lower courts that found it was discriminatory.

Prosecutor urges jail for Penn State ex-president in sex abuse scandal

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Prosecutors urged a judge to sentence Pennsylvania State University's former president to jail on Friday for his role in covering child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky, a former assistant football coach convicted of molesting 10 boys.

NY prosecutor says Exxon's climate change math 'may be a sham'

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's top prosecutor on Friday increased pressure on Exxon Mobil to turn over records of internal assessments of the risks global warming poses to its businesses, claiming to already have evidence of "potential materially false and misleading statements by Exxon," court filings show.

U.S. state, local government lawsuits over opioids face uphill battle

BOSTON (Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. states, counties and cities are filing lawsuits accusing drug companies of deceptively marketing opioid painkillers to downplay their addictiveness, but some lawyers say the industry's highly regulated nature could pose a hurdle to their success.

Ex-FBI chief Comey to testify next week in Russia probe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former FBI Director James Comey will testify next Thursday before a U.S. Senate panel investigating Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, in a hearing that could add to difficulties facing President Donald Trump.

Signs of the time: Fake U.S. immigration control posters found in Washington

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Residents of at least one Washington D.C. neighborhood woke up on Thursday to find the area plastered with posters urging them to turn in illegal immigrants, but federal authorities denied putting up the signs and denounced them as inciting fear.

NYPD must face lawsuit over 'sound cannons' at protests: judge

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York City Police Department failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it used excessive force by employing military-grade sound cannons, which can emit ear-piercing noise, to disperse protesters.

History Unerased aims to cast light on gay Americans in schools

LOWELL, Mass. (Reuters) - For generations, young Americans could go all the way through high school without learning that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have long been part of their country's history.

Fearing Trump's next move, liberals urge Supreme Court conservative Kennedy to stay

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberal activists are urging U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a conservative with whom they often disagree, to put off any thought of retirement, fearing President Donald Trump would replace him with a jurist further to the right.

Pilots after Pence plane incident thought careers over: transcript

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pilot and first officer of the plane carrying U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence that skidded off a runway in October 2016 thought the incident would end their careers, according to documents released on Thursday.

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