WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson said in an online post on Saturday that he had conducted an interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, which would air in the next day or two. Carlson said the interview was conducted remotely through a translator, and would be published as soon as it was …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump drew criticism for using the antisemitic term “Shylock” to describe some bankers during remarks on his signature tax-cut and spending legislation that just passed Congress. “Think of that: No death tax. No estate tax. No going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker – …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Torrential rains unleashed flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas on Friday, killing at least 24 people as rescue teams scrambled to save dozens of victims trapped by high water or reported missing in the disaster, local officials said. Among the missing were 23 to 25 people listed as unaccounted …
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(Reuters) -At least 24 fatalities have been confirmed as a result of flash floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said on Friday. (Reporting by Steve Gorman and Jasper Ward; Editing by Tom Hogue)
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a massive package of tax and spending cuts at the White House on Friday, staging an outdoor ceremony on the Fourth of July holiday that took on the air of a Trump political rally. With military jets flying overhead and hundreds of supporters …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in Stars and Stripes, an independent publication of the U.S. military. The suspension came after Reuters reported that biologists and experts said …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Texas authorities may not enforce a Republican-backed state law that would let them arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a divided federal appeals court ruled late on Thursday. A 2-1 panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction that blocked enforcement of …
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(Reuters) -Joey “Jaws” Chestnut on Friday regained his longtime title of champion in the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating contest at New York City’s Coney Island after he was banned from the competition last year. Chestnut, 41, of Indiana, ate 71 hot dogs in 10 minutes, landing him the “Mustard Belt” prize for the most …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday she expects boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr to be deported to Mexico to serve a sentence for arms trafficking and organized crime, after being detained in Los Angeles by U.S. immigration authorities. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Chavez was determined to be in …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s insolvent Lindsey oil refinery faces shutdown within three weeks with the current 1.8 million barrels of crude it has in storage, consultancy Wood Mackenzie told Reuters on Friday. “However, crude throughputs are likely scaled back already given yesterday’s FCC (fluid catalytic cracker) shutdown, as it is operating in the less profitable hydroskimming …
