A campaign to defeat an industry-backed e-cigarette measure on San Francisco's ballot will push on despite the announcement by Juul Labs Inc. that it will stop financially supporting the proposal to overturn a city ban on e-cigarettes and vape product sales. The San Francisco company, the nation's largest maker of e-cigarettes, announced late Monday that it will end its support for Proposition C after a review of company policies resulting from a leadership shakeup last week. The e-cigarette industry, and Juul in particular, face mounting scrutiny from federal and local governments over youth vaping and as the 14th U.S. death linked to vaping was reported in Nebraska.
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Starbucks has emerged as the latest brand to fall foul of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protesters after a family member of the restaurant chain that owns the local franchise spoke out against demonstrators. One cafe in the district of Wanchai was daubed with slogans saying "boycott", as well as insults to the police and Maxim's Caterers -- the major Hong Kong restaurant chain that runs Starbucks outlets in the city. The vandalism illustrates the huge pressures on international brands as Hong Kong is shaken by its worst political unrest in decades.
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More than half of Americans — and an overwhelming number of Democrats — say they approve of the fact that Congress has opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But as the inquiry begins, there is no national consensus on how to assess the president's actions.
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The lawsuit was brought by a group hoping to eventually overturn U.S. Supreme Court precedents that allow colleges to consider race as one factor in admissions, so long as quotas are not involved. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston concluded that Harvard's program survived strict legal scrutiny, and advanced the Ivy League school's interest in having a diverse student body. "The court will not dismantle a very fine admissions program that passes constitutional muster, solely because it could do better," Burroughs, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, wrote in a 130-page decision.
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