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(Reuters) – A Florida judge on Wednesday said the state’s new congressional map, championed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, unconstitutionally dilutes Black citizens’ voting power. During a virtual hearing, Circuit Court Judge J. Layne Smith said …

By Karen Freifeld and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump must pay a $110,000 fine and meet other conditions to purge a contempt of court order over his failure to comply with a subpoena in a civil probe into his business p…

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw KANKAKEE, Ill. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday blamed Russia’s war on Ukraine for the latest spike in global food prices and visited a family farm in Illinois where he pledged to support the nati…

(Reuters) -Arizona carried out its first execution since 2014 on Wednesday, putting to death a prisoner convicted of killing a student more than four decades ago, local media reported. Clarence Wayne Dixon, convicted of fatally stabbing and strangling …

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -In New York, lawmakers have introduced a bill to expand funding for abortion care. California legislators will soon vote on measures aimed at increasing the number of abortion providers. And Connecticut…

By Nate Raymond and Rami Ayyub (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated seven new members to the hobbled U.S. Sentencing Commission, restoring hope among criminal justice reform advocates that it could soon issue new guidelines to help ea…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers plan to hold a hearing this month on shortages of infant formula, the House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Wednesday, calling the situation “increasingly alarming.” The House of Representatives panel, which i…

By Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Landay KYIV/VILKHIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces reported battlefield gains on Wednesday in a counterattack that could signal a shift in the momentum of the war, while Kyiv shut gas flows on a route through Russ…

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Arkansas’s attorney general on Wednesday accused drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers of colluding to drive up the price of insulin drugs, the latest in a series of lawsuits to take aim at skyrocketing insulin costs. …

By Marc Jones BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A top European official has backed a multi-trillion-euro “Marshall”-style plan to rebuild Ukraine, pledging the firepower of the EU’s lending arm for what he said must be a global rescue effort. Werner Hoyer, presiden…