By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado judge on Friday nixed an arrest warrant for a county clerk who was indicted on felony charges of tampering with voting equipment and then lost a bid for the Republican nomination to Colorado’s top election-management post. Mesa County District Judge Matthew Barrett said he was giving Tina …
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(Reuters) – The prosecutor for Georgia’s Fulton County has warned high-profile Republicans in that state they could be indicted for their role in efforts by ex-President Donald Trump and his supporters to overturn the result of the 2020 election, Yahoo News reported on Friday. District Attorney Fani Willis has written letters to people including Georgia …
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By Steve Holland, Aziz El Yaakoubi, Maha El Dahan and Jarrett Renshaw JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he told Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he held him responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, shortly after exchanging a fist bump with the kingdom’s de …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Friday she is racing to reveal as much history as possible about abuses within the old Native American boarding school system, which separated generations of children from their families in an attempt to destroy indigenous culture. Haaland, the first Native American woman to serve …
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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Friday he would act on his own to cut climate emissions and urged his fellow Democrats to pass the few elements of their sweeping domestic policy package they can agree on after talks in the Senate collapsed once again. Biden said he would take …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Turkish businessman Sezgin Baran Korkmaz was extradited from Austria and arrived on Friday in Utah to face money laundering and wire fraud charges, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement. Korkmaz arrived in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. He was charged earlier in Utah with laundering more …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of HIMARS rocket systems to Estonia, missiles to Norway and torpedoes to South Korea in separate deals that could be worth more than $1.5 billion in all, the Pentagon said on Friday. The sales comes as European countries increase arms …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he would use every power he has as president to fulfill his pledge to fight global warming. The remarks, delivered during a visit to Saudi Arabia, came after powerful Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said on Thursday he would not support a Democratic proposal for new …
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By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Brian Ellsworth KEY BISCAYNE (Reuters) – After years of watching trash build up in mangroves on the Florida Keys off his native Miami, Andrew Otazo began hauling out garbage to raise awareness about an ecosystem he has been enjoying since he was a teenager. The public relations professional and self-described …
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KHIMKI, Russia (Reuters) -Lawyers defending U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner told a Russian court on Friday she was prescribed medical cannabis in the United States for a chronic injury, a Reuters journalist at the courtroom reported. Griner pled guilty to drugs charges which carry a prison sentence of up to ten years after she was …
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