By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The murders of three Muslim men in New Mexico’s largest city in the past nine months were likely linked and they appear to have been targeted for their religion and race, police said. Two members of the same mosque were shot dead in Albuquerque in the last ten days and …
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By Sofia Ahmed and Ted Hesson NEW YORK (Reuters) -Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Friday he has started to send buses carrying migrants to New York City in an effort to push responsibility for border crossers to Democratic mayors and U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat. The first bus arrived early on …
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(Reuters) -A pre-dawn house fire on Friday killed 10 people including three young children in rural eastern Pennsylvania, state police reported, with one volunteer firefighter saying all the victims came from his extended family. Authorities said they were investigating the incident, and no official details were immediately available on the circumstances or origins of the …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Revelations that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones may have lied on the stand in a defamation lawsuit by parents of a child slain in the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting made for a dramatic moment in a high-profile trial, but it would be unusual for prosecutors to follow through with perjury …
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(Reuters) – Two people died and eight others were pulled from the sea alive on Friday after a boat capsized near the Florida Keys, where rescue teams were searching for an unconfirmed number of other people reported in the water, the U.S. Coast Guard said. “We’ve gotten reports from all across the Lower Keys about …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Friday it was ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the United States in private, a day after a Russian court jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for nine years for a drugs offence. The case against Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medallist and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden continues to feel “very well” while still testing positive for COVID-19, the White House physician said on Friday. Biden will continue strict isolation measures and work from home, Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a memo. “The president continues to feel very well. His cough has almost completely resolved. …
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By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) -Fifteen people were injured when a drunken driver plowed through a Native American parade in Gallup, New Mexico, on Thursday night, according to state police and officials. Dancers jumped out of the way and screaming parents pulled children from the path of the Chevrolet Tahoe SUV as it hit …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Tyson Foods Inc, one of the largest U.S. meat producers, is refusing to comply with a subpoena for a civil probe into possible price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic, New York’s attorney general said on Wednesday. Letitia James, the attorney general, asked a state judge in Manhattan to …
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said on Thursday. The verdict followed a two-week trial in Austin, Texas, where Jones’s radio show and …
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