By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The armorer for the movie “Rust” allegedly transferred cocaine to an unnamed person to dispose of evidence on the day the film’s cinematographer was shot dead in 2021, special prosecutors said as they sought protection for a witness. The armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, passed a small bag of cocaine to the …
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By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden worked to lift Americans’ dour mood about the economy with what his aides billed as a major speech on Wednesday, an effort to shore up a top political weakness as he seeks re-election. Biden, whose two-year term as president has witnessed a …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a series of important rulings during its term that began last October on issues including affirmative action, student loans, free speech, LGBT rights, voting rights, immigration and environmental regulation. Here is a look at some of the rulings issued by the court this term. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION The …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Christine King Farris, the sister of slain U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and a prominent activist herself, died on Thursday at the age of 95. Farris died peacefully in Atlanta, Georgia, with her family by her side, according to the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in …
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By Jack Queen and Mike Spector (Reuters) -A Texas grand jury on Thursday declined to press criminal charges against rapper Travis Scott and five others over a 2021 crowd crush at a music festival that left 10 dead and injured thousands, prosecutors said. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said the grand jury was the …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -When liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to join the U.S. Supreme Court, she was expected to bring a different view on racial matters than Justice Clarence Thomas, its only other Black member and a staunch conservative. That dispute was front and center on Thursday when the …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss the first of writer E. Jean Carroll’s two lawsuits accusing the former U.S. president of defamation for denying he raped her in the mid-1990s. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan found no merit in Trump’s arguments that …
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By Steve Holland and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump, a longtime admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Thursday Putin has been “somewhat weakened” by an aborted mutiny and that now is the time for the United States to try to broker a negotiated peace settlement between Russia and …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat who is active in artificial-intelligence issues, wrote to leading tech firms on Thursday to urge them to label AI-generated content and limit the spread of material aimed at misleading users. In the letter to the chief executives of OpenAI, which released ChatGPT, and its partner Microsoft …
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(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump said he might not participate in the Republican Party’s first 2024 election primary debate in August and may hold an alternative event, citing his lead in opinion polls and what he claims is the hosting network’s bias against him. In a telephone interview with Reuters, Trump said “possibly …
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