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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -The New York police officer killed in a mass shooting in a Manhattan skyscraper on Monday was an immigrant who left behind a pregnant wife, two young sons and distraught parents, while friends and officials in Bangladesh and the United States described him as a hero. A gunman opened fire …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration failed to act despite dozens of near-miss incidents before a fatal January crash between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday. “The mistake was that this was not unforeseen. We …

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By David Gaffen and Marleen Kaesebier (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is getting his tariffs. Companies are making it clear how they intend to deal with it – passing them on to American consumers. Throughout the spring, big retailers and consumer product makers warned that levies on imported goods would squeeze their operations, forcing them …

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By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose (Reuters) -Donald Trump said on Tuesday the Wall Street Journal and its billionaire owner Rupert Murdoch want to settle the U.S. president’s defamation lawsuit against the newspaper. On July 18, Trump sued the Journal and its owners, including Murdoch, over a story, which said Trump’s name was on a …

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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a political furor over his administration’s handling of unreleased files from Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case.  Here are some facts about Epstein and the current fracture between Trump and his supporters in the conservative MAGA movement: WHO IS JEFFREY EPSTEIN? The Brooklyn-born Epstein, a former high school math teacher …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A group of U.S. states has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the administration of President Donald Trump from requiring them to hand over information on millions of people who receive food stamp benefits.  The 20 mostly Democratic-led states and Washington, D.C., said the Trump administration’s efforts to amass a database …

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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. trade deficit in goods narrowed to the lowest level in nearly two years in June as imports fell sharply, cementing economists’ expectations that trade likely accounted for much of an anticipated rebound in economic growth in the second quarter. While the unexpected contraction reported by the Commerce Department …

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