By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden marked the 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Wednesday by saying Americans should have “societal guilt” for failing to address gun violence appropriately in the decade since. The rampage at the school on Dec. 14, 2012 …
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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Survivors of mass shootings targeting U.S. LGBT nightclubs detailed the violence they endured and criticized inflammatory political rhetoric in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. “We are being slaughtered and dehumanized across this country, in communities you took oaths to protect,” said Matthew Haynes, owner of the Club Q nightclub …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Puerto Ricans could move a step closer to a referendum on whether the island should become a U.S. state, an independent country or have another type of government when the House of Representatives votes Thursday on a bill outlining the process. A House committee approved the Puerto Rico Status …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A San Francisco police officer testified on Wednesday that he witnessed the attack on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband when the suspect in the assault hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer in late October. Prosecutors at the preliminary hearing for suspect David Wayne DePape, 42, played a recording …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday a Chinese citizen attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston stalked and harassed an activist who posted fliers supporting democracy in China and reported the person’s activities to Chinese law enforcement. Federal prosecutors in Boston said that Xiaolei Wu, 25, did so after …
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By Brendan O’Brien and Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -The bodies of a mother and her young son were recovered on Wednesday hours after a tornado destroyed their home as it ripped through a rural town in northwest Louisiana – one of a swarm of twisters unleashed during the heavy winter storm system sweeping the United States. …
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(Reuters) – The Texas Attorney General’s office requested data on the number of Texans who in recent years had switched their gender on drivers licenses and other state documents, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday. The Post report was based on a public records request on the internal communications within the Department of Public Safety …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate could give final approval by Thursday to a one-week extension of federal government funding before the midnight Friday deadline, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday. “The House is set to act on a one-week CR as soon as tonight and when that bill comes to the Senate we …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen has been released as part of a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, where the war is not likely to wind down before year’s end, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday. Kirby would not release additional details, citing privacy concerns. The head of Ukraine’s presidential …
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MIAMI (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan treasurer who also served as an aide to late President Hugo Chavez has been convicted in the United States for money laundering in association with a corruption scheme in the South American nation. Claudia Diaz, a former Navy sergeant who served as Venezuela’s national treasurer from 2011 to 2013 …
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