By Jonathan Oatis (Reuters) – Wildfires on Hawaii’s Maui island and Big Island have killed dozens of people, forced thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate, and devastated the historic resort city of Lahaina. Here are some key questions and answers about the disaster. HOW DID THE FIRES START? The causes of the fires, which …
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday cited United Airlines crew failure in a December 2022 flight that sharply lost altitude before recovering shortly after departing Kahului, Hawaii. The Boeing 777 jet lost altitude about one minute after departure in heavy rain, descending from 2,100 feet to about 748 feet …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, a maverick Democrat who has often bucked party leadership, told a radio station in his home state of West Virginia on Thursday that he is “thinking seriously” about leaving the party. “I’m not a Washington Democrat,” Manchin said in the interview on Talkline with Hoppy …
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By Nandita Bose SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) – President Joe Biden visited a U.S. veterans’ medical center in Utah on Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the signing of legislation that provides aid to veterans sickened by gases from military toxic burn pits. Biden is at the end of a three-state swing through the …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a decades-old law prohibiting users of illegal drugs from owning firearms was unconstitutional as applied to the case of a marijuana user, the latest fallout from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that expanded gun rights. A three-judge panel of the …
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By Dawn Chmielewski and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Hollywood writers’ strike marked 100 days on Wednesday with contract talks stalled and people on the picket lines protesting what they describe as a disregard for their demands. The strike began on May 2 after negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge has blocked the state of Hawaii from enforcing a recently enacted ban on firearms on its prized beaches and in other areas including banks, bars and parks, citing last year’s landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights. U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi in Honolulu on Tuesday concluded …
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By Jacqueline Thomsen and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. special counsel investigating Donald Trump obtained a search warrant for the former president’s Twitter account in January and the company delayed complying, according to a U.S. appeals court opinion on Wednesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed the …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A new lawsuit accuses the U.S. military of discriminating against as many as 35,000 veterans who were barred from serving because of their sexual orientation by failing to grant them honorable discharges. Five LGBTQ veterans filed the proposed class action in San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, seeking to force …
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(Reuters) – U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak and Texas Central Partners said Wednesday they are seeking federal grants for proposed high-speed rail service between Dallas and Houston. Amtrak and Texas Central are evaluating a potential partnership to further study and potentially advance the project. The proposed 240-mile route would mean a less than 90-minute trip between …
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