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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Defense startup Castelion said on Friday it has won contracts to integrate its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon with current U.S. Army systems, the first step toward allowing the military to place the powerful and nearly unstoppable weapons around the world. The U.S. and China are engaged in an arms race …

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(Corrects the seventh and eighth paragraphs to show that the oral arguments are being heard in Alexandria, Virginia by a U.S. District Court Judge from South Carolina) By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday said her legal team plans to ask a federal judge to dismiss the criminal …

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(Reuters) -The 1987 radio address by the former U.S. President Ronald Reagan at the centre of a new U.S.-Canada row was a defence of free but fair trade in which he explained his decision to put duties on Japanese goods in a trade dispute. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that all trade talks with Canada …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress on Thursday warned that flight disruptions will increase as a government shutdown enters its 23rd day and controllers miss their first full paycheck. Some 13,000 air traffic controllers and about 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers must work without pay during the government …

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By Mihika Sharma and Mrinmay Dey (Reuters) -Kim Kardashian, the American reality television star and businesswoman, disclosed that she has a brain aneurysm during the Season 7 premiere of “The Kardashians”. A preview clip from the opening episode on Thursday titled “Feels Like the Old Days” shows Kardashian, 45, undergoing brain imaging. “There’s like a …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying travel at airports in New York, Washington, Newark and Houston, the Federal Aviation Administration said late on Thursday, as a U.S. government shutdown hit its 23rd day. The FAA was reporting staffing issues at 10 different locations and issued ground stops at Houston …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his administration plans to brief the U.S. Congress on operations against drug cartels and that even though he did not need a declaration of war, operations against cartels on land would be next.  The U.S. military has been increasing its presence in the Caribbean, including …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy late on Thursday warned that the department could soon force a Pennsylvania transit agency to stop using a fleet of railcars due to fire risks as he raised broad safety and financial concerns. The Federal Railroad Administration on October 1 issued an emergency order requiring …

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By Joseph Campbell and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The man accused of deliberately setting the blaze that grew into one of the most devastating wildfires in Los Angeles history, killing 12 people and incinerating thousands of homes, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to three federal arson-related charges. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, is charged with “maliciously” …

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