WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A house explosion in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Arlington, Virginia, was an isolated incident and authorities are investigating concerning social media posts made by the suspect, who died in the blast, police said on Tuesday. Police identified the home’s resident, James Yoo, 56, as the suspect in Monday night’s explosion, which …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville, who has blocked hundreds of military promotions for months to protest the Pentagon’s payment of abortion-related travel costs, said on Tuesday he would lift his hold on some of them. Tuberville’s actions have affected some 400 military nominees and their families. Pentagon leaders have said the holds threatened …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors trying Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat will seek to show evidence of the former president’s claims about voter fraud in 2012 and 2016, according a court document filed on Tuesday. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team noted that Trump, the frontrunner …
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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared hesitant to upend a tax on Americans who have invested in certain foreign corporations, as they pondered the meaning of “income” in a case that could undermine efforts by some Democratic lawmakers to impose a wealth tax on the very …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Transportation Department is awarding $3 billion to a $12 billion Las Vegas to Southern California high-speed rail project that aims to be completed before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, according to a senator. “This historic high-speed rail project will be a game changer for Nevada’s tourism economy and …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – With Bayer facing investor pressure to resolve thousands of lawsuits over its Roundup weedkiller after being hit with $2 billion in verdicts in recent weeks, all eyes are on a trial wrapping up in Philadelphia. Plaintiffs have won the last four trials over their claims that the product causes cancer, …
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(Reuters) – A loud explosion rocked a neighborhood in a suburb of Washington, D.C., on Monday as police served a search warrant at a home where a suspect fired several gunshots and discharged a flare gun, police said. Only minor injuries were reported. Social media images showed a large tower of flame rising from the …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A suspected serial killer was charged on Monday with murder in the fatal shootings of three homeless men in Los Angeles and a county employee who was robbed and slain after being followed to his residence, all of them over a four-day span, officials said. If convicted as …
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(Reuters) -Eight people were taken to a hospital for treatment on Monday after a toxic gas leak at Altivia Chemicals’ plant in La Porte, Texas, local officials said. An update on their condition was not immediately available. The city canceled a shelter-in-place order in the afternoon that had affected several nearby industrial plants, officials said. …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Swiss private bank Banque Pictet has admitted to helping U.S. taxpayers hide more than $5.6 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, federal prosecutors said on Monday. According to prosecutors, U.S. taxpayers with Pictet accounts in Switzerland …
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