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Biden, Harris make joint stop at ’24 campaign headquarters to rally staff

4 Feb 2024

By Jeff Mason WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made a joint stop at their 2024 campaign headquarters on Saturday to rally staff and supporters ahead of a challenging re-election bid that is likely to pit them against former President Donald Trump. The Democratic leaders and re-election candidates were …

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Biden can’t beat the MAGA meme machine online, kingmaker Clyburn says

3 Feb 2024

By Jarrett Renshaw COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s reelection bid won’t be won by million-dollar ad buys or social media sound bites, says U.S. Representative James Clyburn, the man who was key to Biden’s 2020 win. Republican candidate Donald Trump’s supporters have built a “MAGA wall” online of memes and social media …

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Stronger storm expected to hit California with potentially deadly floods

3 Feb 2024

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A second, more powerful atmospheric river storm was headed for Southern California this weekend, threatening to unleash life-threatening floods and landslides, forecasters warned on Friday, even as much of the state was drying out from an earlier deluge. Gradually intensifying rain was expected to begin dousing California on Saturday, …

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Harvard alumni backed by billionaires fail to make cut for board ballot

3 Feb 2024

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) -Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who led a campaign criticizing Harvard University as it has been rocked by turmoil over practices related to antisemitism, plagiarism and financial management, on Friday failed in a bid to get four candidates on the ballot for a governing board of the Ivy League school. One other …

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Carl Weathers, who lit up screen as Apollo Creed in ‘Rocky,’ dead at 76

3 Feb 2024

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Actor Carl Weathers, a former professional American football player who shot to stardom by playing the brash and charismatic boxer Apollo Creed in the “Rocky” movies, died on Thursday of undisclosed causes, his manager announced on Friday. He was 76. Though he had other prominent roles, acting in the recent “Star …

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US judge won’t shield Yelp from Texas lawsuit over crisis pregnancy center notices

3 Feb 2024

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A California federal judge has refused to shield Yelp from a lawsuit by the state of Texas accusing it of posting misleading notices about crisis pregnancy centers on its online review site. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson in Oakland, California, ruled Thursday that federal courts cannot interfere with state actions …

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US Supreme Court won’t halt West Point from considering race in admissions

3 Feb 2024

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the prestigious Army school, from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions while a legal battle over the practice proceeds in lower courts. The justices denied a request from Students for Fair Admissions, …

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A negligent parent or an unforeseeable crime? Trial nears end for Michigan school shooter’s mother

3 Feb 2024

By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -Prosecutors told a jury that the mother of a Michigan boy who shot dead four classmates in 2021 should be found guilty of manslaughter, arguing on Friday that she and her husband were negligent in buying their son a handgun after he had shown signs of mental distress. Jennifer Crumbley, 45, …

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US unveils charges, seizures linked to Iranian oil network

3 Feb 2024

By Timothy Gardner and Rami Ayyub (Reuters) – The United States on Friday announced terrorism and sanctions-evasion charges and seizures linked to a billion-dollar oil trafficking network that it says finances Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other militant groups. The cases are in response to a series of aggressive actions by Iran …

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