(Reuters) – Former top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is recovering from West Nile virus after being hospitalized with the mosquito-borne illness for nearly a week, he told Stat News on Saturday. Fauci, 83, became the face of the U.S. government’s efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He retired in December …
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Two elderly women from Arizona were shot dead in a vehicle along a highway in Mexico’s northern Sonora state, local prosecutors said on Friday, adding they had immediately launched an operation to find those responsible. State prosecutors said the women, identified without their surnames as Enedina, aged 72, and Ubaldina, aged 82, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris and Tim Walz take their Democratic campaign for the White House on a bus tour through Georgia next week, looking to build support in a state looming large in the Nov. 5 election. Vice President Harris formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president on Thursday in Chicago, and Walz, the …
By Ismail Shakil and Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) -Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abandoned his campaign on Friday and endorsed Republican Donald Trump, ending a run that he began as a Democrat trading on one of the most famous names in American politics. Hours after announcing the endorsement in a press conference, Kennedy joined …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A second former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols, whose videotaped beating by five Black officers in January 2023 shocked the United States. Emmitt Martin III, one of five fired officers facing criminal charges, was also expected to plead …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An Arizona man who was wanted after threatening over social media to kill former President Donald Trump was arrested on Thursday, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office said. Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, was in Cochise County on Thursday when he visited the U.S. border with Mexico as …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon must face trial in New York on criminal-fraud charges over a push to fund the former U.S. president’s signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a judge ruled on Friday. Justice April Newbauer’s decision to deny Bannon’s motion to dismiss the charges paves …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was charged on Friday with manslaughter in the shooting death of a Black man who responded to a knock on his apartment door, prosecutors said. Former Deputy Eddie Duran, who was previously fired by the Okaloosa County sheriff, was charged in the May 3 killing …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Kansas man for possessing a machine gun, saying prosecutors failed to establish that a federal ban on owning such weapons is constitutional. The decision by U.S. District Judge John Broomes in Wichita on Wednesday appeared to mark the first time a court …
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(Reuters) – A federal judge agreed to dismiss part of the most serious charge against two former police officers in Lousiville, Kentucky, accused of falsifying a search warrant that led to colleagues killing Breonna Taylor, an unarmed Black medical worker, in her apartment in 2020. Joshua Jaynes, a former Louisville Police Department detective, and Kyle …
