By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The FBI is looking into past visits to Egypt and Canada by the suspect in the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people after a truck was rammed into a crowd of revelers, an FBI official told reporters on Sunday. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden signed a measure into law on Sunday that boosts Social Security retirement payments to some retirees who draw public pensions, such as former police officers and firefighters, in what the White House described as the first expansion of such benefits in 20 years. The Senate voted last month to …
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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A massive winter storm moving across the United States will not keep the U.S. Congress from meeting on Monday to formally certify Republican Donald Trump’s election as president, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Sunday. “The Electoral Count Act requires this on January 6 at 1 p.m. – so, …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Memorial services for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter are expected to take place over six days in Georgia and Washington, D.C., after he died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Here are some details on his funeral plans: WHEN IS THE FUNERAL? Carter’s state funeral, a national tribute traditionally reserved …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Millions of Americans from the Plains to the East Coast faced the threat of blizzards, heavy snow, treacherous ice and freezing rain through Monday, the National Weather Service said on Saturday. Governors in Kentucky and Virginia declared states of emergency ahead of the winter storm. “The storm is still taking …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hollywood screenwriter and director Jeffrey Baena, who was married to actor Aubrey Plaza, died by suicide, the Los Angeles county medical examiner said in a report released over the weekend. Baena, 47, died in his residence on Jan. 3. The medical examiner said the cause of death was “hanging.” Baena wrote and …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, chef Jose Andres, actor Michael J. Fox and conservationist Jane Goodall on Saturday in one of his final official acts in office. Biden, a Democrat who leaves the White House on Jan. 20, …
By Brian Thevenot and Chris Kirkham NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Months before the deadly New Orleans vehicle attack on New Year’s Day, the city modeled scenarios for how an attacker could enter Bourbon Street at various intersections in a crew-cab Ford F-150 similar to the one used to kill 14 people and injure dozens more. …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) -Fourteen people were killed and 30 were injured after a U.S. Army veteran, who also died, with an ISIS flag on his truck swerved around makeshift barriers and plowed into revelers in New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New Year’s Day. Authorities released a list of the victims, with one unidentified …
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By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Surgeon General’s warning of an increased risk of cancer from drinking alcohol may end up resonating most with younger Americans – who in recent years were already turning to mocktails and juices instead of alcoholic drinks. It is unclear whether Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s suggestion to …
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