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Strike deadline nears for New York-area train system with 250,000 daily commuters

Friday, May 15 by SRN News

NEW YORK (AP) - North America's largest commuter rail system is facing a potential shutdown as a deadline nears to reach a deal with unionized workers to avert a strike. The Long Island Railroad that serves New York City's eastern suburbs has been negotiating... Read More.

Such great heights: They’re tall, they’re proud — and they’re getting together

Friday, May 15 by SRN News

SEATTLE (AP) - This story has legs. Very long ones. At a Seattle sports bar on a recent Saturday night, hundreds of very tall people got to experience something rare: blending in. Women in their highest heels craned their necks to look at someone taller.... Read More.

A Texas town may offer a preview of a Trump plan to force noncitizens from public housing

Friday, May 15 by SRN News

PORT ISABEL, Texas (AP) - Until recently, young children ran in and out of their public housing homes in this Gulf Coast town, playing on sun-dappled lawns as mothers looked over their shoulders for the school bus to drop off their older kids. Suddenly,... Read More.

Florida court to consider whether new US House map violates state ban on partisan gerrymandering

Thursday, May 14 by SRN News

New U.S. House districts that could help Republicans win several additional seats in Florida are set to face their first test in court Friday against assertions that they violate a state constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering. Lawsuits filed on behalf of voters ask a... Read More.

Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation

Thursday, May 14 by SRN News

ATLANTA (AP) - Same fight. New generation. That's the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and activists organizing opposition to a mostly white conservative alliance dismantling the Voting Rights Act and political districts that allowed Black and other nonwhite voters to... Read More.

US judge blocks key parts of Texas migrant arrest law

Thursday, May 14 by SRN News

By Nate Raymond May 14 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked Texas authorities from enforcing key parts of a law that would allow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Austin-based U.S. District Judge David Ezra... Read More.

US set to drop criminal fraud case against India’s Gautam Adani, sources say, as deal reached in civil case

Thursday, May 14 by SRN News

By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff and Andrew Goudsward May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is close to dropping criminal fraud charges against Gautam Adani, an Indian billionaire who has promised to invest $10 billion in the U.S. economy, according to two sources familiar with the... Read More.

Justice Thomas hails US Constitution as common bedrock in divided America

Thursday, May 14 by SRN News

MIAMI (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence not with fireworks or empty platitudes, but by standing up for their deeply held beliefs, with the comforting knowledge that the U.S. Constitution protects free speech and... Read More.

Small medical plane crashes in New Mexico mountains, killing all 4 people aboard

Thursday, May 14 by SRN News

A small medical plane crashed in a mountain range outside Ruidoso, New Mexico, before dawn Thursday, killing all four people aboard and sparking a wildfire in the surrounding forest, officials said. The fire had grown to 35 acres (14 hectares) by midday amid dry, windy... Read More.

Texas puts man to death for a retired professor’s killing in its 600th execution since 1982

Thursday, May 14 by SRN News

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for the killing of a 77-year-old retired college professor. Edward Busby Jr.... Read More.

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Strike deadline nears for New York-area train system with 250,000 daily commuters

Such great heights: They’re tall, they’re proud — and they’re getting together

A Texas town may offer a preview of a Trump plan to force noncitizens from public housing

Florida court to consider whether new US House map violates state ban on partisan gerrymandering

Supreme Court voting rights ruling fuels a new push to defend Black representation

US judge blocks key parts of Texas migrant arrest law

US set to drop criminal fraud case against India’s Gautam Adani, sources say, as deal reached in civil case

Justice Thomas hails US Constitution as common bedrock in divided America

Small medical plane crashes in New Mexico mountains, killing all 4 people aboard

Texas puts man to death for a retired professor’s killing in its 600th execution since 1982

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