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Ron DeSantis, in campaign speech, lashes out at China, corporate power

31 Jul 2023 31 Jul 2023

By Gram Slattery ROCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis took an aggressive swipe at China, railed against what he described as corporate bailouts, and said he would rein in the Federal Reserve in an economic policy speech on Monday. The speech contained relatively few new concrete policy proposals, but underlined …

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How Native American police are fighting the crisis of missing people

31 Jul 2023 31 Jul 2023

By Andrew Hay ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. (Reuters) – As Detective Kathleen Lucero drives along a dirt road towards the Manzano mountains east of her New Mexico Native American village, she recalls the time earlier in her career when an elder told his family he was heading this way to water his cows. He didn’t come …

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Trump’s $475 million ‘big lie’ defamation lawsuit against CNN dismissed

31 Jul 2023 31 Jul 2023

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A federal judge has thrown out Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president claimed the network’s description of his election fraud as the “big lie” associated him with Adolf Hitler. In a ruling late on Friday night, U.S. Judge Raag Singhal, who was nominated by …

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Former US President Trump has spent $40 million on legal fees, reports say

31 Jul 2023 31 Jul 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s political action committee is expected to report on Monday that it has spent about $40 million in legal fees in the first half of 2023 to defend Trump and his advisers, among others, the Washington Post reported. The New York Times separately reported that the PAC has …

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US NHC says 70% chance of cyclone over the Central Atlantic

31 Jul 2023 31 Jul 2023

(Reuters) – A system in the Central Atlantic has a 70% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next two days and a tropical depression is likely to form, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Sunday. “The system is expected to move northwestward at about 15 miles per hour during the next day …

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US VP Harris embraces new attack role, draws fresh Republican fire

30 Jul 2023 30 Jul 2023

By Jarrett Renshaw BOSTON (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris has shown a punchy side during a tour of nearly a dozen U.S. states in recent weeks, attacking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for backing “revisionist history” about slavery, telling Iowa healthcare workers to rebel against the state’s new restrictive abortion laws and rallying Latinos in …

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US nurse, child abducted in Haiti, non-profit organization says

29 Jul 2023 29 Jul 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a faith-based humanitarian aid organization said on Saturday. “We can confirm that Alix Dorsainvil, our director’s wife, and their child were kidnapped on the morning of Thursday, July 27th from our campus near Port au Prince while serving in our community …

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‘Oppenheimer’ and the story behind those who lost their land to the lab

29 Jul 2023 29 Jul 2023

By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – In the movie “Oppenheimer” the eponymous character played by Cillian Murphy says the proposed site for a secret atomic weapons lab in northern New Mexico has only a boys’ school and Indians performing burial rites. But there were homesteaders living on that land. In 1942, the U.S. Army gave 32 …

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Scorching heat wave bakes US as heat index soars past 100 F

29 Jul 2023 29 Jul 2023

By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -Tens of millions of Americans were confronted with a one-two punch of brutally hot temperatures and oppressive humidity on Friday as an unrelenting heat wave settled over the Midwest and East Coast and was expected to persist into the weekend. More than 175 million people in the U.S. were under …

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Trump criticizes DeSantis without pushback at Iowa event, even after new criminal charges

29 Jul 2023 29 Jul 2023

By Tim Reid and Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) – Republican presidential rivals Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis appeared at the same event in the 2024 White House race for the first time on Friday, but even a day after Trump faced fresh criminal charges, it was the former president talking down DeSantis rather than the other …

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