By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – One in seven Americans have signed up for health insurance coverage through Affordable Care Act marketplaces since their 2014 launch, according to data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. A total of 49.4 million Americans have signed up for the plans, often referred to …
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By Rory Carroll (Reuters) – New video surfaced on Monday showing police officers forcefully removing Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill from his car and throwing him to the ground during a heated traffic stop ahead of his team’s home opener on Sunday. The Miami-Dade Police Department said it was releasing the available body cam footage …
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – James Earl Jones, the actor, was sometimes in danger of being upstaged by James Earl Jones, the voice. Here are five facts about Jones, who died on Monday at the age of 93: * “Star Wars” creator George Lucas wanted a commanding voice for Darth Vader and first considered casting Orson …
By Bill Trott and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES -American actor James Earl Jones, an imposing stage and screen presence who overcame a childhood stutter to develop a stentorian voice recognized the world over as intergalactic villain Darth Vader, died on Monday at the age of 93. Jones, a longtime sufferer of diabetes, died at his …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has sent Congress a classified report on its strategy for the war in Ukraine, three sources said on Monday, months after a June deadline mandated in a multibillion-dollar spending bill lawmakers passed in April. A congressional aide said the long-awaited report had reached lawmakers on …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Monday against two alleged leaders of a white supremacist gang, saying they used the Telegram social media site to solicit attacks on Black, Jewish, LGBTQ people and immigrants aiming to incite a race war. The group, dubbed “The Terrorgram Collective”, used the site to …
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By Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) -U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Kamala Harris will square off next week in their first presidential debate since President Joe Biden quit the race. It will be the first chance some 240 million U.S. voters get to hear Trump and Harris explain their policies side by side …
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By Dan Fastenberg, Kevin Fogarty and Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – It is the birthplace of U.S. independence, the “City of Brotherly Love,” and the hometown of beloved fictional boxer “Rocky” Balboa. Now Philadelphia in Pennsylvania will be center stage again when Kamala Harris and Donald Trump meet in a highly anticipated televised debate that …
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By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Biden Administration said on Monday it had finalized a regulation to help ensure that the 175 million Americans with private health insurance have access to affordable mental health services. The 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act already requires insurers and corporate-backed health plans to provide access …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Justice Elena Kagan said the U.S. Supreme Court would be better off spending less time hurrying through cases on its emergency docket. “It’s a very hard problem,” Kagan said on Monday in an hour-long interview with a professor at New York University’s law school. “I don’t think we …
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