By Steve Gorman and Brendan O’Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A final burst of heavy rain from a deadly atmospheric river storm doused California’s Central Coast on Wednesday as it headed for Los Angeles, bringing a renewed threat of mudslides and floods to a region soaked for days by record downpours. The storm’s last gasp in …
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By Gram Slattery and Tim Reid (Reuters) -Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign on Wednesday brushed off her mortifying defeat in Nevada’s primary and said the former United Nations ambassador would press ahead with her long-shot challenge to former U.S. President Donald Trump. Haley lost Nevada’s Republican primary handily on Tuesday even though she was the only …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Marianne Williamson, the self-help author who gained little traction in her bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination, dropped out of the race on Wednesday night. Williamson, 71, had focused much attention on New Hampshire’s Democratic primary on Jan. 23 but gained only about 4% support in an …
(Reuters) – Six to eight people are feared dead in a house fire that broke out near Philadelphia on Wednesday, and two police officers responding to the blaze were wounded by gunfire from inside the home, officials said. The suspected shooter was believed to have set fire to the home and was among those still …
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By Patricia Zengerle, Makini Brice and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday defeated a bipartisan effort to bolster border security that had taken months to negotiate, but said they could still approve aid for Ukraine and Israel that had been tied up in the deal. By a vote of 49-50, …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – The stabbing of a Palestinian-American man in Austin, Texas, over the weekend meets the definition of a hate crime and local prosecutors will determine charges, Austin police said on Wednesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advocacy group said a group of Muslim Americans were driving home from a pro-Palestinian …
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(Reuters) -Special Counsel Robert Hur has completed his investigation into whether U.S. President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents during his time as vice president, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a letter to Congress on Wednesday. Garland said in the letter to House and Senate judiciary committee leaders that Hur had submitted his final report …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A day after back-to-back failures on two high-profile bills, Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson faced doubts about his leadership on Wednesday, as Congress lurched toward another government shutdown deadline in less than a month. Johnson, a 52-year-old Christian conservative who was relatively new to leadership ranks when the …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior U.S. officials will visit the 2024 election battleground state of Michigan on Thursday to meet with Arab-American and Muslim leaders critical of President Joe Biden for not calling for a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s attacks on Gaza. The officials include U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan bill combining an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy and border security with nearly $100 billion in foreign aid on Wednesday failed to garner enough votes to move forward in the U.S. Senate, although voting continued. (Reporting by Makini Brice, Richard Cowan and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Chris Reese)
