(Reuters) -An earthquake measuring 5.5 magnitude struck off the northern California shore on Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), causing no reported damage or injuries. The USGS said the quake occurred at a depth of 10km (6 miles) and took place 108 km (67 miles) west of Petrolia, a community of about 1,000 …
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CANNES (Reuters) – Lily Gladstone, who grew up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and stars in Martin Scorsese’s study of white society’s treachery, said the director was a powerful ally in telling the world what communities like hers had always known. In the film “Killers of the Flower Moon”, which premiered at this year’s Cannes …
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By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Brittney Griner returned to the WNBA hardwood on Friday night in Los Angeles to cheers from a raucous crowd that included U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. The mood was celebratory as Griner, who was released from a Russian penal colony in a high profile prisoner exchange with the …
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By Richard Cowan, Moira Warburton and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON/HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -A second meeting on Friday between White House and Republican congressional negotiators on raising the federal government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling broke up with no progress cited by either side and no additional meeting set. That came at the end of a day of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of an intelligence unit of the Washington, D.C., police department faces criminal charges after allegedly warning the leader of the far-right Proud Boys group about an arrest warrant and leaking other law enforcement information, an indictment released on Friday showed. Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant Shane Lamond gave Proud Boys leader Enrique …
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By Leroy Leo and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -A panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, wary of the safety of Intercept Pharmaceuticals’ oral drug for a type of fatty liver disease, recommended on Friday holding off on an accelerated approval of the medicine. The panel of outside experts voted 15-to-1 against the …
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By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. court found that the FBI improperly searched for information in a U.S. database of foreign intelligence 278,000 times over several years, including on Americans suspected of crimes, according to a ruling released on Friday. The decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was released by the …
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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -The families of Sandy Hook shooting victims said they had a strong case to reverse payments received by Alex Jones’ wife and others in his family to help satisfy $1.5 billion in judgments they won against the bankrupt right wing conspiracy theorist over his lies about the 2012 elementary …
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By Bill Trott (Reuters) -Jim Brown, one of the greatest running backs in the history of the National Football League who quit the game at the height of his career to act in Hollywood movies and add his voice to the civil rights movement, has died. He was 87. Brown died on Thursday night, his …
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By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch WORCESTER (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday ordered the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking military secrets to remain in jail as he awaits trial on charges he violated the Espionage Act. Magistrate Judge David Hennessy made the decision after lawyers for Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21, asked for …
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