WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said it paused departures and arrivals at three airports including Myrtle Beach International Airport in South Carolina on Saturday because of a “national security effort.” The action occurred amid reports that a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon, which has been flying across the country in what Washington calls …
(Reuters) -A train derailed near the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania on Friday night, causing a massive fire in the area, local media reported. Multiple train cars can be seen on fire in images posted on social media from East Palestine, a town northwest of Pittsburgh. Smoke can be seen rising from the blaze and …
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By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -The Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved President Joe Biden’s shakeup of the party’s 2024 primary calendar, giving Black voters a greater say in the nominating process and carving an easier path for Biden’s expected re-election bid. The party’s vote on Saturday replaces the famed Iowa caucuses as the first …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Memphis police on Friday fired a sixth officer involved in the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man who was beaten by officers in the Tennessee city last month. The Memphis Police Department identified the officer as Preston Hemphill, saying in a statement that Hemphill violated department policies on personal …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Two reputed gang members were arrested on Friday and charged with murdering six people, including an infant boy and his teenage mother, in a central California farming community last month in what authorities described as a targeted massacre. The two suspects – Angel Joseph Uriate, 35, and Noah …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a doctor accused of unlawfully prescribing addictive opioids in Arizona and Wyoming after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in his favor that made it harder to prosecute such cases. The Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote next week on a bill that would end a requirement that most foreign air travelers be vaccinated against COVID-19, Majority Leader Steve Scalise said on Friday. The Biden administration in June dropped its requirement that people arriving in the country by …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt PHILADELPHIA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Establishment Democrats gathered this weekend in Philadelphia have one message for U.S. President Joe Biden as he weighs running for a second term: Run, Joe, run. “I am looking forward to supporting the president,” Sharif Street, head of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party, said at the party’s conference in …
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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -School meals for millions of children in the United States would include less sugar, more whole grains, and lower sodium under new standards proposed by the Biden administration on Friday. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the updated standards, to be rolled out over the next several years, were essential to tackling …
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By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – The family of Amir Locke, a Black man who was killed by Minneapolis police during a no-knock raid on an apartment last year, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the officer who fired the fatal gunshots. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for Minnesota on …
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