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U.S. arrests man for firebombing Wisconsin anti-abortion group’s office

28 Mar 2023

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Wisconsin man with firebombing a conservative anti-abortion group’s office last May, just days after a leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the nationwide right to abortion became public. Hridindu Sankar Roychowdhury, 29, was arrested at an airport in Boston after authorities …

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A Christian school that ‘celebrates childhood’ becomes killing scene in Nashville

28 Mar 2023

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -The 200 young children enrolled at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, start each day with chapel and study the Bible twice a week. “The beauty of a PreSchool-6th school is in its simplicity and innocence,” the introductory paragraph of the school’s website reads. “Students are …

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Mississippi town mobilizes volunteers, opens mobile hospital after tornado kills 26

28 Mar 2023

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Officials in Rolling Fork on Monday mobilized volunteers, organized logistics and opened a mobile hospital in the impoverished small town in western Mississippi clobbered by a ferocious tornado three days ago. Some 26 people were killed in the powerful twister that ripped through the area and town of 1,900 on …

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US House committee chair signs subpoena for State Dept Afghanistan documents

28 Mar 2023

(Reuters) -The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Monday he signed a subpoena to be delivered to Secretary of State Antony Blinken for documents related to the August 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Michael McCaul has launched an investigation into the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan under Democratic President …

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Biden calls for assault weapons ban after Nashville shooting

28 Mar 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban after six people, including three children, were killed in a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, the White House said. “We have to do more to stop gun violence. It’s ripping our communities apart,” Biden said at the White …

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Gwyneth Paltrow testifies she was struck from behind in ski collision

28 Mar 2023

By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Gwyneth Paltrow took the stand on Friday to testify that she was not at fault for a 2016 ski slope collision in Utah that left a man with a concussion and broken ribs, contradicting testimony from the lone witness to the incident. Paltrow, 50, said during cross examination …

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Trump N.Y. grand jury hears from former National Enquirer publisher again -source

28 Mar 2023

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -A former National Enquirer publisher testified on Monday before a Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence about former President Donald Trump’s role in a hush-money payment to a porn star, said a person familiar with the matter. David Pecker, who testified in January, came back for about 45 minutes on Monday, the …

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Death toll at 26 after powerful tornado tears across Mississippi

27 Mar 2023

By Aleksandra Michalska and Joseph Ax SILVER CITY, Mississippi (Reuters) -Rescuers combed through rubble on Saturday after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama as it leveled hundreds of buildings and spawned at least one devastating tornado. The tornado stayed on the …

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US lawmakers make new push to bar convicted violent passengers from flights

27 Mar 2023

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday will make a new push for legislation to bar passengers fined or convicted of serious physical violence from commercial flights after a series of recent high-profile incidents. Three lawmakers said on Monday they plan to reintroduce the “Protection from Abusive Passengers Act,” saying …

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Biden to veto Republican energy permitting bill, White House says

27 Mar 2023

By Kanishka Singh, Katharine Jackson and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden would veto a Republican energy legislation package if it were to pass Congress, citing cost increases that the legislation could lead to, the White House said on Monday. “H.R. 1 (Lower Energy Costs Act) would double the cost of energy efficiency …

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