By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – A sexual assault charge against a former Exxon Mobil Corp executive was dropped after a suburban Houston grand jury declined to issue an indictment, an official of the Montgomery County, Texas, district attorney’s office said on Wednesday. David Russell Scott, 50, was the senior vice president in charge of …
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday narrowly voted to impeach Democratic President Joe Biden’s top border official, as immigration shapes up to be a major issue in this year’s elections. By a vote of 214-213, the House approved two articles of impeachment accusing Homeland Security …
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(Reuters) -Utility firm Hawaiian Electric said on Tuesday it had begun rolling outages on Hawaii Island due to the unavailability and reduced output from several large generators. The Honolulu-based power company said its largest generator, Hamakua Energy, unexpectedly tripped offline late Tuesday afternoon and Puna Geothermal Venture was operating at a reduced capacity. Hawaiian Electric …
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By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -The planned launch of a robotic moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was called off less than two hours before Wednesday’s liftoff time and postponed for at least a day, launch contractor SpaceX said on Tuesday night. SpaceX, the private rocket and …
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(Reuters) – Democratic former U.S. Representative Tom Suozzi won a congressional special election in New York on Tuesday, Edison Research projected, narrowing an already razor-thin Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives that has struggled to pass legislation. The contest became necessary after the House took the extraordinary step of expelling Republican George Santos, …
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By Jeff Mason and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden’s advisers knew in 2020 that his age was an issue for Americans but they successfully painted him as a competent leader who would restore normalcy to the White House after Donald Trump’s chaotic presidency. Now that Biden is 81, opinion polls show age is even …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About two-thirds of Jewish Americans felt less secure in late 2023 than they did a year earlier, according to a survey mostly conducted after the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and released on Tuesday. The American Jewish Committee, an advocacy group, said the survey was based on …
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By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted comments about NATO by his likely 2024 election opponent, Donald Trump, calling the remarks “dangerous” and “un-American” and saying they raised the stakes for the U.S. Congress to approve new funding to support Ukraine. At the White House, the Democratic president …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to leave military hospital later on Tuesday and will attend a Ukraine-related virtual meeting the next day, the Pentagon said, as the Pentagon chief struggles in the wake of prostate cancer surgery. It was the second time this year Austin, 70, was hospitalized – this time …
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By Jonathan Allen and Rich McKay NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City police were searching on Tuesday for three men suspected of killing one person and wounding five others in a shooting that took place after a brawl broke out between what police called “rival groups” on a subway train in the Bronx. The fighting …
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