(Reuters) – The U.S. House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Congress has found gaps in official White House telephone logs on the day of the deadly riot, with few records of calls by then President Donald Trump during the hours investigators know he was making them, the New York Times reported. Investigators …
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Civil rights groups on Thursday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to disavow century-old Supreme Court rulings suffused with racist language that gave the government license to treat people living in Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories differently than other Americans. The 13 groups, led by the American Civil Liberties …
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By Andy Sullivan (Reuters) – Erie, Pennsylvania could use a facelift. The lakefront city of 100,000 has been adding jobs and businesses downtown, but it remains saddled with vestiges of its industrial past: abandoned factories, ugly concrete buildings, decaying houses. Leaders have written a stack of development plans, but lack the money needed to turn …
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has warned law enforcement agencies that a convoy of truckers protesting against COVID-19 vaccine mandates could affect this weekend’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles, CNN reported. The DHS had issued a bulletin to authorities across the United States saying it “has received reports of truck drivers planning …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The attorneys general of Missouri and Texas said on Wednesday they will probe GoFundMe over the decision by the crowd funding service to take down a page for a fundraising campaign that supports protesting truck drivers in Canada who oppose mandated COVID-19 vaccines. “The crowd-funding platform’s integrity has come into …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Wednesday agreed a deal to renew a long-lapsed law to strengthen domestic violence protections, just hours after Hollywood actor and humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a tearful speech of support. Jolie’s voice broke as she acknowledged the women and children “for whom this legislation comes too …
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By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -University of California officials have agreed to pay $243 million to settle the legal claims of about 200 women who have accused a former UCLA gynecologist of sexual abuse. The settlement by the University of California regents, the system’s governing board, marks the second in lawsuits stemming from the …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sarah Palin portrayed herself as a dedicated public servant in testimony in her defamation case against the New York Times, after a former editor who oversaw the 2017 editorial underlying her lawsuit on Wednesday denied trying to blame the prominent Republican for a 2011 mass …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A former executive at casino operator Wynn Resorts Ltd was sentenced on Wednesday to a year in prison after being convicted of participating in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $300,000 to bribe his daughter’s way into a top university. Gamal Aziz, 65, asked U.S. District Judge …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seven predominately Black schools in Washington were evacuated over bomb threats on Wednesday and later cleared, including a high school that was threatened a day earlier during a visit by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, authorities said. The District of Columbia Police Department said four public high schools and three charter …
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