SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -A Maryland congressman said on Monday he was unable to meet one of his constituents, a Salvadoran man wrongly deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador. Representative Glenn Ivey, a Democrat, had traveled to El Salvador to meet Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is being held in the notorious …
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(Reuters) -Two people were killed and nine others, including three teenagers, injured in a shooting at Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park on Memorial Day, police said on Tuesday. All the nine injured in the Monday night shooting are in stable condition. A male and a female, both adults, were the deceased victims, a police officer told a …
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By Sandra Stojanovich and Lisa Richwine LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -“Birds of a Feather” singer Billie Eilish landed the top honor on Monday at the American Music Awards, winning artist of the year in Las Vegas at a red-carpet ceremony that celebrated winners selected by fan votes. Pop singer Eilish claimed the artist prize over Taylor …
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(Reuters) – Police in Louisiana and Texas arrested on Monday three more fugitives who escaped from a New Orleans jail 10 days ago, leaving at large two of the original 10, Louisiana state police said. Lenton Vanburen, 26, originally detained on a parole violation and firearms charges, was arrested by police in Baton Rouge, about …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Walt Disney’s live-action remake of “Lilo & Stitch” and Tom Cruise’s newest “Mission: Impossible” adventure brought crowds to movie theaters and helped set a box office record for the U.S. Memorial Day weekend. Receipts for the top 10 films came in at $326.7 million in the United States and …
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(Reuters) – Shareeduh McGee is fighting to keep the memory of her cousin George Floyd alive. Millions took to streets across the world to protest the police killing of Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man who gasped “I can’t breathe,” shortly before dying after an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes in May 2020. …
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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump issued a pardon on Monday for a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted last year of federal bribery charges, averting prison time for the officer. “Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL,” Trump posted online, issuing a full and unconditional …
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By David Shepardson and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he is considering taking $3 billion of previously awarded grant money for scientific and engineering research away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools. His comments on his social media platform Truth Social come less than a week …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Representative Charles Rangel, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and chair of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, died on Monday, New York lawmakers said. Rangel, 94, an African American who had been the face of Harlem politics for decades and an influential lawmaker, …
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(This May 26 story has been corrected to clarify that the EPA, in response to the NYT report, said it was ‘developing a proposed rule’) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, the …
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