WILMINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will skip the traditional pre-game interview with the CBS television network before Sunday’s Super Bowl, which is expected to become the most-watched American football game ever. It is the second year in a row that Biden has opted out of the interview. White House officials told reporters earlier …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher, who chairs the House select committee on competition with China, said on Saturday he will not run for re-election, four days after he was one of only four House Republicans to buck party leadership and vote against impeaching President Joe Biden’s top border official. Gallagher, …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A private passenger jet with five people aboard crash-landed on a busy Florida highway and collided with two vehicles on the ground in a fiery accident on Friday that killed two people, according to authorities and news footage from the scene. The Bombardier Challenger 600 business jet, which took off from …
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By Nathan Layne HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race, said on Friday he had firmly protected gun rights while in the White House and vowed if re-elected to undo all restrictions enacted by President Joe Biden. Speaking to thousands of supporters at an event organized by …
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By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Friday blasted a report from a Department of Justice special counsel that suggested President Joe Biden was suffering memory lapses, and Vice President Kamala Harris called the report “clearly politically motivated.” The report from Special Counsel Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney in …
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(Reuters) -A magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck Southern California northwest of Los Angeles on Friday, rattling a wide area around the nation’s second-most populous city, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. But there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The quake was centered about 9 miles (14.5 km) west of Thousand Oaks, a community …
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than a month before a deadly drone strike that killed three U.S. soldiers in Jordan, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sought to reassure U.S. troops about the military’s ability to withstand attacks by Iran-backed militants. Austin, in previously unpublished remarks to sailors aboard the Gerald …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities on Friday said they had seized websites used to sell cybercriminals malware called “Warzone RAT” that could be used to steal data from victims’ computers. Two people in Malta and Nigeria have been arrested on related charges, they added. Federal prosecutors in Boston said law enforcement had …
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(Reuters) – A Florida resident is the latest person to plead guilty in a U.S. court case in Miami concerning the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s last president, Jovenel Moise, a judicial filing showed on Friday. Frederick Joseph Bergmann Jr. specifically pleaded guilty to submitting false or misleading export information and conspiring to offenses against the …
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(Reuters) -A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the small town of Pahala on the Big Island of Hawaii on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake, revised from an initial magnitude of 6.3, was at a depth of 22.9 miles (36.85 km), the USGS said. No tsunami is expected after the earthquake, the U.S. …
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