Reuters US Domestic News Summary

In one of the first major policy actions under new House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Republicans unveiled a standalone supplemental spending bill only for Israel, despite Democratic President Joe Biden's request for a $106 billion package that would include aid for Israel, Ukraine and border security. Judge blocks Biden administration from destroying Texas border fencing A U.S. judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal immigration authorities from destroying razor wire placed along the border with Mexico by the state of Texas to prevent migrants from crossing the Rio Grande river.

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

Trump should be disqualified from 2024 ballot over Jan. 6 riot, advocates say at trial

Donald Trump should be disqualified from Colorado's ballot in next year's election because he "incited a violent mob" in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, an advocacy group lawyer argued at the opening of a trial on Monday. A lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is a test case for whether a rarely-used, Civil War-era provision of the U.S. Constitution that bars people who have engaged in "insurrection or rebellion" from holding federal office, can prevent Republican Trump from being president again.

Illinois man pleads not guilty in fatal stabbing of Muslim boy

An Illinois man charged with murder and hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother pleaded not guilty before a judge on Monday at an arraignment, according to court records. Police say Joseph Czuba, 71, the family's landlord, targeted them for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, police said.

Trump edges up in Iowa even as legal challenges grow, poll shows

Former U.S. President Donald Trump maintains a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in Iowa less than three months before the state kicks off the Republican presidential nominating contest, with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis tied for second place, an NBC News poll released on Monday showed. The survey, conducted with the Des Moines Register and Mediacom last week, found Trump with a nearly 30-percentage-point advantage over the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the Florida governor ahead of the Jan. 15 caucuses in the Midwestern state.

Providers can sue over Arizona ban on abortion for genetic anomalies -court

A U.S. appeals court on Monday revived a challenge to an Arizona law banning abortions from being performed solely because the fetus has a genetic abnormality. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that a group of healthcare providers can sue the state over the law because they are harmed by it, reversing a lower court ruling.

US House Republicans seek to block California high-speed rail funds

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday plans to vote on legislation that would bar the Biden administration from awarding funds to California's High-Speed Rail project. The White House on Monday said it opposed the bill that would also dramatically cut funds for U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak and mass transit programs.

UAW reaches deal with GM, ending strike against Detroit automakers

General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) struck a tentative deal on Monday, ending the union's unprecedented six-week campaign of coordinated strikes that won record pay increases for workers at the Detroit Three automakers. The accord follows deals the union reached in recent days with Ford Motor and Chrysler-owner Stellantis - significant victories for auto workers after years of stagnant wages and painful concessions following the 2008 financial crisis.

US progressive groups ask DOJ to reverse new M&A safe harbor policy

More than a dozen groups are pressing the U.S. Justice Department to retreat from a new policy they say gives a "free pass" to corporate wrongdoers, a sign of mounting criticism among progressives of enforcement under President Joe Biden. Demand Progress, Public Citizen and 12 other progressive non-profit organizations and lobbying groups want Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco to reverse the policy designed to coax companies to disclose misconduct they uncover during mergers and acquisitions, according to a letter sent on Friday.

US officials, Jewish leaders meet to address antisemitism on campus

Biden administration officials, voicing alarm at reports of anti-Jewish incidents at U.S. universities, met American Jewish leaders on Monday to discuss steps to counter the surge, a White House official said. Tensions between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups have sprung up on some U.S. campuses, including several in New York, prompting university officials to tighten security.

US House Republicans unveil bill to fund Israel by cutting IRS budget

U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Monday introduced a plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting funding for the Internal Revenue Service, setting up a showdown with Democrats who control the Senate. In one of the first major policy actions under new House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Republicans unveiled a standalone supplemental spending bill only for Israel, despite Democratic President Joe Biden's request for a $106 billion package that would include aid for Israel, Ukraine and border security.

Judge blocks Biden administration from destroying Texas border fencing

A U.S. judge on Monday temporarily blocked federal immigration authorities from destroying razor wire placed along the border with Mexico by the state of Texas to prevent migrants from crossing the Rio Grande river. U.S. District Judge Alia Moses in Del Rio, Texas barred the Biden administration from cutting or removing the wire until at least Nov. 13, as she considers a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, accusing the U.S. government of illegally destroying state property.

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