By Nathan Frandino SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Drag Queens and a Drag King took over a San Francisco skating rink for the 12th annual “Drag Queens on Ice” show, dazzling spectators with their loud costumes, hilarious moves and some surprising skills. Performers in fabulous outfits showed their flair in Union Square, the city’s shopping district, …
By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) -Some of the people who handled guns on the set of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust” may face criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer, the New Mexico district attorney said on Friday. Mary Carmack-Altwies said in a statement that she had not made any decision yet on …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin in their meeting that the United States is determined to stand resolutely against any reckless or aggressive actions that Russia may pursue and to defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. Blinken told the Reuters …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday signed legislation funding federal agencies through mid-February, the White House said, averting a government shutdown after some Republicans had threatened a standoff over COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The law funds the U.S. government through Feb. 18, giving the narrowly divided Congress another 11 weeks to either hammer out …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A year before Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Bossert Clark tried to help Donald Trump overturn the presidential election results, he sought to delay one of the biggest water pollution cases in U.S. history. In 2019, a group of prosecutors under Clark’s supervision at DOJ’s Environment and Natural Resources …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration has been in contact with federal law enforcement officials over a string of flash mob “smash and grab” robberies of U.S. retail stores, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday. “The Justice Department, the FBI and federal law enforcement has been in touch, in contact …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the National Guard Bureau is isolating after returning a positive COVID-19 test, a spokesman said on Friday. “General Dan Hokanson is working remotely and isolating himself from contact with others, after a positive COVID-19 test this week,” a spokesman for the National Guard said in a statement. (Reporting by …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A hoarse-sounding U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he has a cold, possibly contracted from a grandson. After a speech about the U.S. economy in which he sounded congested and coughed several times, reporters asked Biden if he was okay. “I’m OK,” Biden said. “What I have is a one-and-a-half year old …
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A lawyer for Donald Trump on Friday urged a U.S. appeals court to find the former president immune from author E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit arising from her allegation that he raped her, an argument Carroll’s lawyer said would put him “above the law.” Alina Habba, Trump’s lawyer, told …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -COVID-19 vaccine makers have contingency plans to deal with the Omicron variant that include a combination vaccine against the original version and the variant as well as a variant-specific booster dose, a top U.S. health official said on Friday. The U.S. government is working with Moderna, Pfizer, …
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