(Reuters) -Elon Musk threatened on Saturday to sue media watchdog Media Matters and those who attacked his social media platform X, following moves by several large U.S. companies to halt advertising on the site after being promoted alongside antisemitic content. Musk and X have been under a microscope all week for antisemitic and racist content …
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By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will lay out the first international strategy to commercialize nuclear fusion power at the upcoming UN climate summit in Dubai, U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change John Kerry will say on Monday, two sources familiar with the announcement said. Fusion could have an important advantage …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday warned healthcare providers and facilities not to use Cardinal Health’s Monoject syringes with patient-controlled pain management pumps and syringe pumps. The regulator’s warning comes after Cardinal Health initiated a recall for its Monoject syringes due to incompatibility concerns with syringe pumps. Monoject syringes are used to …
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The CEOs of Discord, Snap, and X, formerly known as Twitter, were issued subpoenas to compel them to testify at a Dec. 6 hearing on online child sexual exploitation, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Monday. The committee said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that only the U.S. government, not private parties, can sue under a landmark civil rights law barring racial discrimination in voting, a decision that would significantly hamper usage of the Voting Rights Act to challenge ballot access, voting rules and redistricting. The ruling, …
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(Reuters) -Eight months after Dexter Wade was struck and killed by an off-duty officer in a police vehicle in Mississippi and buried without his family’s knowledge, mourners gathered on Monday for the belated funeral of the 37-year-old Black man. Rev. Al Sharpton called Wade’s death “a national outrage” in an impassioned eulogy delivered over the …
By Jasper Ward and David Morgan (Reuters) -Republican Donald Trump won the endorsement of Texas Governor Greg Abbott at an event near the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday, a location meant to highlight the former U.S. president’s plans to crack down on immigration if he wins the 2024 election. Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination …
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By Steve Holland NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Virginia (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden donned aprons and served Thanksgiving dinners to military personnel and their families on Sunday at an early holiday meal dubbed “Friendsgiving.” The event took place in a flag-bedecked hangar at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia. The Bidens …
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By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, who President Jimmy Carter called “an extension of myself” owing to his wife’s prominent role in his administration even as she tirelessly promoted the cause of mental health, died on Sunday at age 96, the Carter Center said. Rosalynn Carter, who in recent days had …
By Nathan Layne FORT DODGE, Iowa (Reuters) – Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday that he would kill off a Pacific trade pact being advanced by U.S. President Joe Biden if he were to win the 2024 election and return to the White House. Speaking to supporters in Iowa, …
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