By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) – Two major winter storms will dump heavy snow and blow fierce winds in the Midwest, New England and Southwestern United States on Tuesday and into the next couple of days, wreaking havoc on road travel while improving ski conditions in parts of Colorado. One system was expected to bring …
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By Jonathan Allen ST. PAUL, Minn. (Reuters) -Pinning George Floyd face down on a Minneapolis road in a May 2020 arrest seemed reasonable in the moment, one of three former Minneapolis police officers on trial for violating the handcuffed Black man’s civil rights testified on Monday. Thomas Lane was the third of the three defendants …
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(Reuters) – Paul Farmer, an American doctor and anthropologist dedicated to improving public health in some of the world’s poorest countries, died unexpectedly in his sleep in Rwanda, the group he founded said on Monday. He was 62. Farmer founded Partners in Health in Haiti in 1987 and served as chief strategist to the group, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has started interviews with top candidates to serve on the Supreme Court “in recent days,” a source familiar with the situation said on Monday. The White House has said repeatedly that Biden, who has pledged to name the first Black woman to the job, would announce his pick …
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By Rich McKay BRUNSWICK, Ga. (Reuters) -The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery acted out of “racial anger” when they chased the young Black man as they saw him jogging through their Georgia community, a federal prosecutor told jurors at the defendants’ hate-crimes trial on Monday. Defense lawyers argued that their clients, despite …
By Kenneth Li, Julia Love and Helen Coster (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s new social media venture, Truth Social, launched late on Sunday in Apple’s App Store, potentially marking the former president’s return to social media after he was banned from several platforms last year. The app was available shortly before midnight ET and was the top …
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By Vanessa Johnston MADISON, Wisc. (Reuters) – When Joenes Gellada joined the National Guard, he never imagined that would mean one day training as a nursing assistant. “Never in my wildest dreams,” he said as he completed his two-week training course at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin on Friday. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is meeting his national security team on Monday about Russia and Ukraine, a White House official said, as Russian President Vladimir Putin weighed a request by two regions of eastern Ukraine to be recognized as independent, a move that could give Moscow a reason to openly send in …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. foreign policy officials arrived at the White House on Monday as Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was weighing a request by two regions of eastern Ukraine to be recognized as independent, a move that could give Moscow a reason to openly send in troops. A Reuters eyewitness saw Secretary …
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By Reuters staff (Reuters) – The staff of Reuters has received a George Polk Award for its coverage of widespread intimidation of U.S. election workers by supporters of former President Donald Trump. The prestigious Polk Awards, presented by Long Island University in the United States, honor special achievement in journalism, with particular focus on investigative …
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