By Mike Blake SAN CLEMENTE, California (Reuters) – As heavy rains soaked into already sodden ground in California, mudslides in the beachfront community of San Clemente forced evacuations of blufftop homes this week and in one case left a swimming pool dangling partway off the cliff edge. Drone visuals showed a large chunk of the …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The 2024 Republican presidential race could become a contest between isolationists and foreign policy hawks after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent his strongest signal yet he does not believe support for Ukraine is in the U.S. national interest, analysts, strategists and campaign aides said on Tuesday. The war in …
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -A high-ranking envoy of President Joe Biden will travel to Panama and Honduras this month, the U.S. Department of State said on Thursday, days after Taiwan ally Honduras said it would establish formal diplomatic ties with China. Chris Dodd, the U.S. special presidential adviser for the Americas, will visit the two Central American …
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By Tyler Clifford and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Three former employees of a mental hospital in Virginia were arrested and charged with second-degree murder on Thursday, a prosecutor said, over the death of a Black man who was transported to the facility from jail earlier this month. Irvo Otieno, 28, died on March 6 as he …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) needs more air traffic controllers to address rising passenger demand, the chair of a U.S. Senate panel overseeing aviation issues said on Thursday, amid investigations into a series of recent runway incidents. “We don’t have enough pilots. We don’t have enough maintenance people, and we …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A lawsuit filed by several Colorado municipalities accusing ExxonMobil Corp and Suncor Energy Inc. of exacerbating climate change belongs in state court where it was filed, the Biden administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. The administration urged the justices to reject the oil companies’ petition for review of …
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By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From an empowered Iran and eroded U.S. influence to the cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria to combat Islamic State fighters, the United States still contends with the consequences of invading Iraq 20 years ago, current and former officials say. Then-U.S. President George …
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(This March 6 story has been corrected to show the addition of only one unit of BGI Genomics to the list and three total units of BGI Group in paragraph 8) By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Monday named senior White House official Chris Slevin as new chief of …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -North Dakota’s Supreme Court on Thursday refused to revive a strict abortion ban previously blocked by a lower court, finding that the ban violates a state constitutional right to abortion to preserve the mother’s life or health. The ruling means that abortion remains legal in North Dakota for now. “Today, the …
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By Leroy Leo and Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) -Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday overwhelmingly backed full approval of Pfizer’s oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid for adults at high risk of progression to severe disease. The FDA’s panel of outside experts voted 16-to-1 in favor of the drug’s benefits outweighing its risk …
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