| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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