By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican-backed Texas law that would allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border was blocked again by an appeals court on Wednesday, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for it to go into effect. …
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By Eric Cox CHICAGO (Reuters) -Chicago voters on Tuesday appeared to reject a higher real estate transfer tax on properties worth over $1 million, a proposal that proponents said could raise $100 million a year to pay for affordable housing and fight homelessness. The ballot measure was losing by 8 percentage points with 81% of …
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By Jeff Mason LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden highlighted plans to lower housing costs during stops across Nevada on Tuesday, taking aim at high rents and blasting the policies of Republican challenger Donald Trump while using the former president’s signature slogan. “We need housing that’s affordable,” Biden said in Las Vegas. “For too …
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By Emma Farge (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official who has been on a hunger strike in support of child victims of the Israel-Hamas conflict alleges he was assaulted by the organisation’s security at its New York headquarters, an account the global body disputes. A United Nations spokesperson said the official fell while forcibly …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reiterated that the United States would only help protect NATO members from a future attack by Russia if its European members spent more on defense. In an interview with Britain’s right-leaning GB News that was released on Tuesday, Trump repeated remarks that triggered an …
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(Reuters) – Homicides across the U.S. dropped by more than 13% in 2023, according to FBI data released this week, declining for the second consecutive year after a precipitous spike during the coronavirus pandemic. The largest cities – with a population of more than 1 million – saw murders drop by more than 20%, while …
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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday warned that Ukraine’s survival was in danger and sought to convince allies that the United States was committed to Kyiv, even as Washington has essentially run out of money to continue arming Ukrainian forces. Republican House of …
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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump drew outrage from the White House, Democrats and leaders of Jewish groups for saying Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats hate their religion and Israel. “Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion, they hate everything about Israel and they should …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Reddit and Google’s YouTube were ordered by a New York state judge to face lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for helping enable the avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store. Justice Paula Feroleto of the Erie County …
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By Steve Keating MIAMI (Reuters) -Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian former pro ice hockey player and boyfriend of tennis player Aryna Sabalenka, died in an “apparent suicide” the Miami-Dade police department said on Tuesday, adding there was no evidence of foul play. Police said in a statement sent to Reuters that they had responded to a …
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