WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon has deployed two aircraft carriers — and their supporting ships — to the eastern Mediterranean since the attacks on Israel. The ships are meant as a deterrent to ensure the conflict does not expand, but bring a significant amount of power to a region that already hosts a number of …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday barred two Texas-based manufacturers from selling products that can be quickly converted at home into firearms called “ghost guns,” granting a request by President Joe Biden’s administration to once again block a federal judge’s order that had sided with companies. The justices lifted Fort Worth-based …
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By Joseph White and David Shepardson DEARBORN, Michigan (Reuters) – Ford executive chairman Bill Ford on Monday urged the United Auto Workers union to end a 32-day strike and reach a new labor agreement, and warned of the growing impact to the automaker and the U.S. economy. “We can stop this now,” Ford said of …
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(Reuters) – Violent crimes including murder and rape declined in the United States in 2022 from a year earlier, but property crimes rose during the same period, according to data published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter across the country decreased by 6.1% and rape by 5.4%, while larceny …
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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will highlight clean-energy jobs created by his climate legislation on Monday while visiting a Colorado Congressional district represented by Lauren Boebert, a right-wing Republican lawmaker and avid supporter of former President Donald Trump. Biden will visit the largest wind tower manufacturer CS Wind in Pueblo, Colorado, …
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By Dietrich Knauth and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – U.S. bankruptcy Judge David Jones in Houston has resigned after a federal appeals court opened an ethics probe spurred by a previously undisclosed romantic relationship with an attorney whose firm had cases before his court, ending his tenure as the busiest bankruptcy judge in the U.S. Chief …
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By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Small donors have responded to Donald Trump’s legal problems by showering money on his presidential campaign, helping him roughly match the fundraising pace of Democratic President Joe Biden who is seeking re-election, according to disclosures released on Sunday. More than $2 million surged into Trump’s coffers …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -An Illinois man was charged with hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother in an attack that targeted them for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, officials and Muslim rights activists said on Sunday. The boy was …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives will vote to choose a new speaker on Tuesday at approximately 12:00 p.m. (1600 GMT), No. 2 House Democrat Katherine Clark said on Sunday. Representative Jim Jordan won the Republican nomination to lead the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday, but the hardline conservative appeared to be …
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By Katharine Jackson and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the Biden administration hopes to push a new weapons package for Israel and Ukraine through Congress that will be significantly higher than $2 billion. Sullivan, in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said U.S. President …
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