By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Students in Iowa walked out of school on Monday to demonstrate at the state capitol, calling for lawmakers to take action to address gun violence after an 11-year-old was killed and five others wounded in a school shooting last week. Several dozen students waved signs and chanted “No more silence, …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The corruption trial of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and Wayne LaPierre kicked off on Monday in a Manhattan courtroom, three days after his sudden resignation as the gun-rights group’s chief executive. New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the NRA and its longtime leader in …
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(Reuters) – Florida’s Republican Party on Monday ousted their chairman as police investigate a rape accusation against him, switching leaders a week before Governor Ron DeSantis faces his first test in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination. The Florida GOP said in a post on X that it elected Evan Power as its chair. …
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By Shannon Stapleton NEW YORK (Reuters) -Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked several New York City bridges and a tunnel on Monday to demand an immediate ceasefire in the three-month-old Israel-Hamas conflict before police arrested hundreds of them and reopened the roadways. Dozens of chanting demonstrators sat at entrances to the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges across the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -California will hold the special primary election for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s recently vacated congressional seat on March 19, according to the secretary of state website. Unlike in most states, where primaries are divided by political party, all of the declared candidates in a California jurisdiction are put against each other in …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Actor Jonathan Majors, who was dropped by Disney’s Marvel after being found guilty last month of attacking his ex-girlfriend, said in an interview on Monday that he was responsible for problems with the relationship but not for her injuries. In his first televised remarks since a New York jury found him guilty …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden has appointed Jennifer Fain, formerly of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, to head the inspector general’s office at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as that agency reckons with a workplace sexual harassment scandal, the office announced on Monday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Fain takes over as the top banking regulator faces …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A robotic lander built by a private company was bound for the moon on Monday in an attempt to make the first U.S. lunar soft landing in half a century, after launching to space aboard a new Vulcan rocket debuted by a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Space …
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(Reuters) -Donald Trump said he will be attending an appeals court hearing regarding the scope of his presidential immunity in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, in comments in a Truth Social post on Monday. “Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity,” Trump said in the post. …
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By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. healthcare sector is showing signs of life after lagging in 2023 as investors bet cheap valuations will offset a tendency to underperform during presidential election years. The S&P 500 healthcare sector has climbed about 6% since the start of December, doubling the gain of the broader …
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