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Soccer-U.S. players ‘angry, exhausted’ after report on abuse, says Rapinoe

7 Oct 2022

By Frank Pingue (Reuters) -Megan Rapinoe said on Thursday she and her fellow U.S. women’s national team members are angry and exhausted in the wake of a scathing report into allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). The independent investigation released on Monday revealed player abuse within women’s professional …

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Man arrested after Las Vegas stabbing leaves 2 dead, 6 wounded

7 Oct 2022

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A man wielding a knife with a long blade stabbed eight people, two of them fatally, in an unprovoked rampage on Thursday along the casino-lined Las Vegas Strip, and was arrested a short time later, local authorities said. The victims included tourists and local residents, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department …

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Anti-Trump Republican Sasse suggests he is ready to leave U.S. Senate

7 Oct 2022

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Senator Ben Sasse, who voted in 2021 to impeach Donald Trump, suggested on Thursday that he was likely to leave the U.S. Senate, the latest Republican critic of the former president set to leave or lose political office. Sasse, 50, represents Nebraska and was one of seven Republican senators who …

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Jurors begin deliberations in Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation trial

7 Oct 2022

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -A Connecticut jury began deliberating Thursday in a trial to decide how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company must pay families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming the massacre was a hoax. The deliberations come after three weeks of trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, …

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Kevin Spacey, accuser trade dueling accounts at sexual misconduct trial

6 Oct 2022

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Lawyers for the actor Kevin Spacey and Anthony Rapp, the man whose accusations of sexual misconduct upended the Oscar winner’s career, traded dueling accounts on Thursday about the men’s encounters more than 30 years ago as a civil trial over Rapp’s claims began in New York. A lawyer for Rapp, who is …

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Proud Boys member pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy for U.S. Capitol attack

6 Oct 2022

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A member of the far-right Proud Boys pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge of seditious conspiracy over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, making him the first member of the group to do so. Jeremy Bertino, 43, of Belmont, North Carolina, could …

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U.S. Supreme Court leans toward Alabama in voting rights fight

6 Oct 2022

By Andrew Chung and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled sympathy toward Alabama in the state’s defense of a Republican-drawn electoral map in a case that could further erode a landmark voting rights law, drawing a skeptical response from its newest member, Ketanji Brown Jackson. The court on the …

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U.S. court sets January 2023 hearing for Lithium Americas mine suit

6 Oct 2022

(Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge has set a January 5, 2023, hearing for a lawsuit over Lithium Americas Corp’s proposed Thacker Pass lithium mine in Nevada. Opponents of the mine are asking the court to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2021 approval of the mine, whereas supporters say it is necessary in the fight …

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Family of man who died in police custody settles lawsuit with city of Rochester

6 Oct 2022

By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) -The family of Daniel Prude, a Black man whose March 2020 death under police restraint sparked protests in upstate New York, has agreed to a $12 million wrongful death settlement with the city of Rochester, Mayor Malik Evans said on Thursday. The city admitted no wrongdoing as part of …

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U.S. pharmacies to offer hearing aids by mid-October under new govt rule

6 Oct 2022

By Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) – Major U.S. pharmacy operators Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart Inc said on Thursday that in mid-October they would start selling hearing aids over-the-counter without the need for a medical exam, prescription, or audiologist fitting. The companies are rolling out the products across the nation after the U.S. Food and Drug …

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