By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Mayors from across the United States gathered in Washington for their annual winter conference this week to tackle major issues facing their cities, with mental health, addiction and mass migration high on their lists. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, mayors have been on the front lines as their …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Election conspiracy theories drove a defeated Republican candidate in New Mexico with a criminal past to hire gunmen to attack homes of Democratic legislators, marking a dangerous new level of U.S. political violence, officials said. Solomon Pena, 39, was denied bail on Wednesday in his first court hearing on charges he …
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(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that his campaign was in talks with Meta Platforms about a possible return to Facebook and Instagram, two years after the company banned him for inciting violence. “We are talking to them, and we’ll see how it all works out,” Trump said, …
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(Note language that may offend some readers in paragraph 17) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A prosecutor urged a jury on Wednesday to convict four members of the far-right Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy, saying they plotted to stop the U.S. Congress from certifying the 2020 election because they could not accept President …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. citizens and two legal permanent U.S. residents were among those killed in Nepal’s worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people died including small children, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. The Yeti Airlines ATR 72 turboprop carrying 72 people crashed on Sunday just before …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away a challenge by a group of firearms dealers in New York to numerous Democratic-backed measures adopted by the state last year regulating gun purchases that the businesses said hurt their businesses. The justices, with no public dissents, denied a request by the dealers …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Wednesday called Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statement comparing the United States’ assembly of a coalition to take on Russia to Adolf Hitler’s actions to eradicate Jews in Europe “truly offensive.” “It’s almost so absurd that it’s not worth responding to, other than the truly offensive manner in …
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Porn star Ron Jeremy was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial in Los Angeles on rape and other sex charges involving 21 women, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said on Tuesday. Jeremy, 69, pleaded not guilty in August 2021 to more than 30 counts of sexual assault, …
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By Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) – A 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer. The video, which remains archived on Tesla’s website, was …
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By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing 23 people and injuring dozens more in a hate crime targeting people of Mexican descent at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, in 2019, a court document filed on Tuesday showed. Prosecutors say Patrick Wood …
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