By Randi Love (Reuters) -Here are reactions to Friday’s attack on novelist Salman Rushdie. SUZANNE NOSSEL, CEO OF FREE EXPRESSION ORGANIZATION PEN AMERICA: “We can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil. Just hours before the attack, on Friday morning, Salman had emailed me to help …
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By Kanishka Singh and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said. …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The $430 billion climate change, healthcare and tax bill that passed the U.S. Congress on Friday aims to help reduce the carbon emissions that drive climate change and lower medical costs for older Americans. President Joe Biden’s Democrats hope the bill, now passed by both houses of Congress, will …
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(Reuters) – The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, said on Friday that several of its entities were being investigated by the Justice Department, after a report found the church had mishandled sex abuse claims and mistreated victims. The Convention did not provide details on the inquiry and the Justice Department did not …
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(Reuters) – U.S. citizen and civil rights attorney Asim Ghafoor, who was convicted in the United Arab Emirates this week on money laundering charges, has been released from detention after paying a fine, his attorney said on Friday. (Reporting by Simon Lewis; Editing by Dan Whitcomb and William Mallard)
By Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) – FBI agents in this week’s search of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida home removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as top secret, the Justice Department said on Friday, while also disclosing it had probable cause to conduct the search based on possible Espionage Act violations. …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. federal agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida this week, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. It was not clear if such documents were recovered at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democrats’ landmark $430 billion climate, tax and drug pricing bill secured enough votes to pass the U.S. House on Friday. Voting was ongoing in the Democratic-controlled chamber. (Reporting by Moira Warburton in Washington; editing by Costas Pitas)
By Jonathan Allen VANDERWHACKER MOUNTAIN WILD FOREST, N.Y. (Reuters) – Gunfire has long echoed in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Children blast skeet from the sky after school and parents mingle and compete at the shooting range. In the fall, hunters in fluorescent orange fan through the forests, stalking deer. So June’s landmark ruling by the …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden should announce his candidacy for re-election sooner than usual following November’s congressional race in a bid to squash speculation about the Democrat’s plans ahead of the 2024 campaign, several sources said. Biden, who turns 80 shortly after the Nov. 8 …
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