By Arshad Mohammed and Humeyra Pamuk (Reuters) -U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Thursday his security clearance is under review, saying that he expects the investigation to end “favorably and soon” and in the meantime he was on leave. “I have been informed that my security clearance is under review. I have …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison after being convicted earlier this year of participating in a $60 million bribery scheme, prosecutors said. A federal jury convicted Householder and former Ohio Republican Party chair Mathew Borges in March. Householder …
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(Reuters) -A Florida jury on Thursday acquitted a former sheriff’s deputy accused of failing to protect students during the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Scot Peterson, the school resource officer on duty when a gunman entered a building in Feb. 14, 2018 and opened fire, killing 17 and wounding another …
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -The conservative U.S. political network led by billionaire Charles Koch has raised over $70 million to spend on political races, an official with the group said on Thursday, with a key goal of stopping former President Donald Trump from clinching the 2024 Republican nomination. The influential group, which pushes for tax …
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By Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In 1998, the year a voter-approved measure barring the use of race-conscious admissions policies for public colleges and universities in California took effect, the percentage of Black, Hispanic and Native American students admitted at two of the state’s elite public schools plummeted by more than 50%. Those figures for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of F-35 fighter jets, munitions and related equipment to the Czech Republic in a deal valued at up to $5.62 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the possible sale on Thursday. The principal contractors will be …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday said it condemned the burning of a Koran outside a mosque in Sweden, but added that issuing the permit for the demonstration supported freedom of expression and was not an endorsement of the action. A man tore up and burned a …
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Over half of Americans surveyed in the last year reported facing online harassment and hate during their lifetime, including more than 75% of transgender responders, advocacy group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said on Wednesday. ADL’s fifth such annual survey showed that reports of online hate and harassment over the last 12 …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – The 193 member states of the United Nations’ cultural agency are expected to back the United States’ return to the organisation almost five years after then-President Donald Trump withdrew over accusations of anti-Israel bias and mismanagement. The Paris-based agency, founded in the ashes of World War Two to protect …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would seek to eliminate the Departments of Energy, Commerce and Education, as well as the Internal Revenue Service, if he were elected president, he suggested in a television interview on Wednesday. “We would do Education, we would do Commerce, we’d do Energy, and we would …
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