WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday criticized President Joe Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia, saying it rewarded a dictatorship and should have never taken place given its leader’s involvement in murdering a journalist. Biden greeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who U.S. intelligence agencies believe ordered the killing in 2018 of …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday named the members of an emergency board tasked with helping resolve disputes between freight rail carriers and their unions, the White House said. Biden signed an order on Friday ahead of a deadline to intervene in nationwide U.S. railroad labor talks covering 115,000 workers or …
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(Reuters) – Four people were killed when a sheriff’s department helicopter crashed in New Mexico as they were returning from helping firefighters tackle a wildfire, officials said. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s office said three personnel from the sheriff’s office and one employee from the Bernalillo County Fire Department were on board the helicopter, which crashed …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A federal judge in Tennessee has temporarily blocked Biden administration directives allowing transgender workers and students to use bathrooms and locker rooms and join sports teams that correspond with their gender identity. Judge Charles Atchley Jr. of the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled on Friday that the administration’s directives would …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A lawyer pushing the baseless claim of massive fraud in the 2020 election urged former President Donald Trump to overturn his loss through steps that would be viewed as “martial law,” according to a memo published online on Saturday by the New York Times. Measures that attorney William Olson proposed Trump take …
(Reuters) – San Francisco International Airport said it resumed normal operations after evacuating the international terminal late on Friday following a bomb threat. “Police have cleared the Int’l Terminal. SFO resumes normal operations,” the airport said in a tweet on Saturday. The airport terminal was evacuated after San Francisco police said officers had received a …
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(This July 15 story corrects superintendent’s name to Ragsdale from Ragland.) By Randi Love (Reuters) – Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy to allow personnel who are not certified police officers to carry guns, part of its response to the shooting at a Texas school that killed 19 children and two adults two …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – President Joe Biden no longer plans to nominate a Republican who has defended abortion restrictions to become a federal judge in Kentucky because Republican Senator Rand Paul of that state has declined to support him, the White House said on Friday. Biden’s decision to drop Chad Meredith from consideration came …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol said it had subpoenaed the Secret Service as it investigates accusations by a watchdog that the agency erased text messages sought as evidence. “The Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action …
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By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s online fundraising has slowed in recent months, a financial disclosure on Friday showed, adding to doubts over the firmness of his grip on the Republican Party. Trump’s political committees raised about $18 million between April and June, about $2 million less than …
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