By James Oliphant and Tim Reid (Reuters) -After 15 states and one U.S. territory cast votes on Tuesday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump was on the cusp of sealing the Republican presidential nomination. His last remaining rival, Nikki Haley, was likely searching for some rationale to continue her increasingly implausible bid. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden easily …
By Jason Lange and Helen Coster WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Voters in Republican presidential primary contests in North Carolina, Virginia and California appeared particularly focused on immigration, according to the results of exit polls conducted on Tuesday by Edison Research. Following are figures from the polls: * 41% of North Carolina voters said immigration mattered most when …
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Independent U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona said on Tuesday that she will not run for reelection in the highly competitive state, which will be critical to her former Democratic Party’s chances of maintaining its narrow majority. Sinema’s decision clears the way for an expected head-to-head contest in the November …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Men’s basketball players at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League school in New Hampshire, voted on Tuesday to form a union, in a potentially transformative moment for U.S. college athletics. The team voted 13-2 to join an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union that had petitioned to represent the players last …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – South Carolina cannot cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, finding that doing so would deprive Medicaid patients of their right to choose their provider. The order marks the third time that a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
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(Reuters) -Nikki Haley is the only Republican candidate left in the battle against Donald Trump for the party’s nomination to take on Democratic President Joe Biden in November’s U.S. presidential election. Here are the Republican Party’s two remaining candidates: DONALD TRUMP The Republican frontrunner with 64% support, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling, Trump has leveraged his …
By Sarah Morland, Harold Isaac and Valentine Hilaire PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti’s neighbors on Monday began shoring up their defenses and recalling embassy staff as a gang conflict in the Caribbean nation escalated and thousands fled fresh fighting. On Sunday, Haiti’s de facto government issued a 72-hour state of emergency and imposed nightly curfews after armed …
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(Reuters) -Five people died after a single-engine airplane crashed beside a highway in Nashville, the city’s metro police department said early on Tuesday. The plane crashed off the eastbound lanes past the Charlotte Pike exit, police said in a post on social media platform X, adding that work was ongoing to determine from where the …
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(Reuters) – Multiple explosions and a blaze at an industrial site north of Detroit sent debris flying as far as a mile (1.6 km) away, police said as they urged people to stay clear of the area. Social media images showed bursts of flame and smoke billowing from the site in Michigan’s Clinton Township, about …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A blizzard that dumped up to 10 feet (3 meters) of snow on the California mountains in recent days has pushed snowpack levels above average for the first time this year, a welcome bounty before hot and dry weather inevitably returns. But experts warn much of the excess could be …
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