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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden ripped several of his possible Republican 2024 election opponents on Monday, including saying that his predecessor Donald Trump lacked the “courage” to stop the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. “The police were heroes that day: Donald Trump lacked the courage to act,” Biden …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday set a tentative late February trial date for Frank James, the man accused of carrying out an April 12 shooting and smoke bomb attack in a New York subway car. James, 62, is accused of injuring 23 people during the morning rush hour on a Manhattan-bound …

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(Reuters) – The Biden administration is weighing whether to declare the monkeypox outbreak in the country a public health emergency, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The government is also planning to name a White House coordinator to oversee the country’s response to the outbreak, according to the report. The White House did not immediately …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The United States on Monday said it had tripled annual reforestation spending to tackle a four million acre replanting backlog driven by intense, climate-driven wildfires. U.S. Forest Service reforestation funding rose to over $100 million this year as part of moves to plant more than a billion trees in a …

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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump crossed out sentences that distanced him from the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and refused to call for their prosecution in a draft of a speech he delivered the next day, congressional testimony showed on Monday. The former Republican president deleted …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Two people were shot dead and five others wounded by gunfire at Los Angeles park on Sunday after shooting broke out at an informal car show in the community of San Pedro, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Paramedics took seven people to area hospitals, and two of them, a man …

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