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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will boost its stockpile of at-home COVID-19 tests, ordering more than 100 million tests from domestic manufacturers, the White House said on Thursday, but warned it was a short-term solution. President Joe Biden’s administration has repeatedly and unsuccessfully asked Congress for more pandemic money. It said last …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee scrapped a planned vote on Thursday aimed at allowing news organizations to win more revenue from Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook. “Today we held over the bill in the Judiciary Committee in part because a colleague was out and we needed his vote on one amendment,” said …

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(Reuters) -Four people were dead and three wounded after a 19-year old man went on a shooting spree in Memphis, Tennessee, the city’s police department said in a media briefing early on Thursday. Memphis Police Chief C. J. Davis said that Ezekiel Kelly was apprehended on Wednesday after multiple shootings. At least one of the …

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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Days after Democratic President Joe Biden gave a fiery speech attacking former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies as an extremist threat, a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Wednesday found a majority of Americans believe Trump’s movement is undermining democracy. Fifty-eight percent of respondents in the two-day poll – …

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By Jonathan Allen and Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Police on Wednesday arrested a county public administrator on suspicion of murdering a Las Vegas investigative reporter who had written news articles exposing complaints of wrongdoing at his office, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. Jeff German, a reporter for the Review-Journal, was fatally stabbed outside his home on …

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By Danielle Broadway (Reuters) – After an inundation of racist attacks, Amazon Prime Video’s “Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power” has released a statement on Twitter expressing that they refuse to ignore or tolerate the “racism, threats, harassment, and abuse” that some of their castmates of color face daily. When Black and brown cast …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday set aside its decision that California’s ban on selling semiautomatic weapons to adults under 21 was unconstitutional, citing a recent Supreme Court ruling that changed how judges must evaluate firearms laws. In a brief order, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals returned the case …

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