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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nate Snyder, a former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official, joined the growing race on Tuesday to run the Democratic party, pledging to win back the working class after extensive November election losses. Snyder, who is Jewish and Latino, joins four white male candidates vying to run the Democratic …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -An X-ray image appears to show screws and plates inserted in a lower back. Social media commentary praises the Unabomber and criticizes the use of smartphones by children. Such posts by a Luigi Mangione, the name New York police have announced as the 26-year-old suspect in last week’s killing of a …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Football League, the Justice Department, the FBI and other agencies will call on Congress on Tuesday to expand U.S. government authority to detect and destroy drones that could pose security threats over stadiums and other locations. Congress has debated for years expanding authority amid growing safety concerns. “The …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two of President-elect Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees, Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, sought support from U.S. senators on Monday, but it remained uncertain whether they would get the near-unanimous Republican backing they will need to win confirmation. Former Fox News personality Hegseth held a second meeting with Senator Joni …

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By Stephanie Kelly and Julie Steenhuysen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Jen Watson, a 41-year-old mother in Federal Way, Washington, has worked for years with her doctor to find the right medications to deal with her multiple chronic illnesses, which include epilepsy and fibromyalgia. Her doctor had found some medications that could reduce Watson’s nerve pain, …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a Hawaii man’s bid to throw out criminal charges for carrying a pistol while hiking, as the justices declined to review a ruling by the liberal-leaning state’s top court that denounced an expansion of gun rights by the nation’s highest judicial body. The man, …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court, turning away another case involving transgender issues, declined on Monday to hear a bid to revive a lawsuit against a public school district in Wisconsin over a policy to support gender identity of students that some parents challenged on religious rights and other grounds. The Supreme …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday a chance to further restrict efforts to promote racial diversity in education, turning away a case over whether criteria that had been used to decide admissions to elite public high schools in Boston discriminated against white and Asian students. The justices decided not to …

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