By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kamala Harris will unveil her vice presidential running mate on Tuesday, her first major decision as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate and another step in her quest to win the White House in November. Harris, the first woman and first Black and South Asian person to serve …
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TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (Reuters) – Caroline Marks of the United States won the Paris Olympics women’s surfing gold medal on Monday at Teahupo’o in Tahiti. Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb won silver and Johanne Defay of France took bronze. (Reporting by Lincoln Feast in Tahiti; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
By Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has narrowed her search for a vice presidential running mate to two finalists, Governors Tim Walz of Minnesota and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, three sources with knowledge of the matter said. Harris, the U.S. vice president, is expected to announce her selection …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said two close advisers to the late Jeffrey Epstein can be sued by victims who accused them of aiding and abetting the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking of young women and teenage girls. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan rejected arguments by Epstein’s former personal …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board said a number of Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems executives will testify at a two-day hearing starting Tuesday on the mid-air blowout of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 door plug in January. Boeing’s senior vice president for quality Elizabeth Lund and Doug Ackerman, vice president …
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By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -“Twin Peaks” creator David Lynch said on Monday he is filled with happiness and will never retire despite an emphysema diagnosis, clarifying comments he made earlier to magazine Sight and Sound that he would most likely have to stop working. The 78-year-old American filmmaker posted on social media platform …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – GSK won the latest trial over claims that discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, as a jury on Monday found that the drug was not responsible for an Illinois woman’s illness, a company spokesperson said. Carrie Joiner had alleged in her lawsuit in state court in Chicago that she developed …
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – USAA, the financial services company serving military personnel and their families, will pay $62.4 million to resolve a lawsuit claiming it overcharged service members and veterans on interest rates and fees. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action was filed on Friday night in the federal court in Elizabeth …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas took additional undisclosed travel paid for by billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow that the conservative justice failed to disclose, the Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee said on Monday. Thomas and his wife took round-trip air travel between Hawaii and New Zealand in …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Virginia man was charged with making violent online threats against Vice President Kamala Harris days after she began her U.S. presidential campaign. Frank Carillo was charged on Friday in federal court in Virginia with threatening the vice president after posting a series of messages targeting Harris on the social media site …
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