By Brad Brooks LONGMONT, Colorado (Reuters) – Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the “Survival & Prepper Show” in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every type of knife imaginable. A self-described “30-year-old lesbian from Indiana,” Morgan is one of a new breed of Americans getting ready to …
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(Reuters) – A National Guard helicopter assigned to patrol duty along the U.S.-Mexico border crashed in Texas on Friday, killing two soldiers and a U.S. Border Patrol agent who were aboard and injuring another soldier, military officials said. The UH-72 Lakota helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, around 2:50 p.m. (2050 GMT) while …
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By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate narrowly averted a partial government shutdown on Friday, as the chamber approved spending legislation for several government agencies just hours before current funding was due to expire. By a bipartisan vote of 75-22, the Senate approved a $467.5 billion spending package that will fund …
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(Reuters) – Nine people were killed on Friday in a collision between a tractor-trailer truck and a passenger van in central Wisconsin, authorities said. The wreck occurred shortly before 8 a.m. in Dewhurst, a town on state highway 95, when the van entered an intersection from a side road to cross the two-lane highway in …
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By Daniel Wiessner and Ted Hesson (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Friday rejected a challenge by Republican-led states to a Biden administration program that allows hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to apply for emergency entry into the United States. U.S. District Court Judge Drew Tipton in Victoria, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Pentagon report on unidentified flying objects said U.S. government investigations since the end of World War Two have found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology and had concluded that most sightings were misidentified ordinary objects and phenomena. The report released on Friday follows on from a 2022 Pentagon announcement that its then …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Friday vowed to sign into law a bill that recriminalizes drug use, more than three years after voters approved the most liberal drug law in the country, one that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of drugs. “I intend to sign House Bill 4002 and …
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By David Shepardson and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Friday he would sign legislation that gives China’s ByteDance about six months to divest the popular TikTok short video app as his rival Donald Trump raised concerns about a ban of the service used by 170 million Americans. The U.S. House of …
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By Georgina McCartney HOUSTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday was trying to identify the source of an oil spill off the coast of Huntington beach, California, the agency said. The sheen, estimated at 2.5 miles (4 km) in length and 0.5 miles (800 meters) in width, was discovered after a Coast Guard helicopter …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Alexandra Ulmer NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Friday posted a $91.6 million bond to cover the defamation verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll, and began his appeal of the case that arose from his branding her a liar after she accused him of raping her decades ago. The …
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