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Thousands to join Hollywood #MeToo march against sexual abuse
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Thousands of people are expected to march in Los Angeles on Sunday to support victims of sexual assault and harassment, inspired by a social media campaign that has portrayed such…
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Texas town holds first burials after church massacre
[ad_1] SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) – The tiny Texas town reeling from a gun massacre that killed 26 churchgoers buried the first of the victims on Saturday, in a remote cemetery where a series of…
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Legionnaires sickens 12 in California, including 9 at Disneyland
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Disneyland has shut down and decontaminated two cooling towers following an outbreak of Legionnaires disease that sickened 12 people, nine of them guests or employees at the theme park in…
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Alabama U.S. Senate candidate again denies alleged sexual misconduct
[ad_1] VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (Reuters) – Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, the Republican insurgent running for the U.S. Senate, on Saturday again flatly denied he had initiated a sexual encounter in 1979 with a…
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UCLA players quizzed over alleged shoplifting to remain in China: ESPN
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Three UCLA men’s basketball players detained in China over allegations of shoplifting this week will not be on the team’s return flight to the United States on Saturday, ESPN reported. FILE PHOTO:…
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Los Angeles police investigating allegation of drug planting
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Police Department will investigate allegations of misconduct against at least one officer, the department said on Friday, after an attorney said video captured police putting cocaine in…
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Acting DHS chief denies White House pressured her over immigration program
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke on Friday denied reports that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly pressured her to end protections for tens of thousands of immigrants, and…
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U.S. Justice pledges to prosecute activists who damage pipelines
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday pledged to prosecute protesters who damage oil pipelines and other energy infrastructure, a move that could escalate tensions between climate activists and the administration…
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Flynn lawyer denies reports of quid pro quo plan to deliver cleric to Turkey
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The lawyer for former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn on Friday labeled as “outrageous” and “false” media reports suggesting his client may have been involved in an alleged plan to…
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Bikram yoga guru seeks bankruptcy in wake of harassment claims
[ad_1] CHICAGO (Reuters) – Bikram Choudhury Yoga Inc, the studio that popularized doing yoga in sauna heat, has filed for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy, dogged by $16.7 million in legal judgments and numerous lawsuits and…
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U.S. Justice Department commits to prosecute activists that damage pipelines
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday pledged to prosecute protesters who damage energy infrastructure in a move that could escalate tensions between climate activists and the administration of President Donald…
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Mueller probing alleged Flynn plan to deliver cleric to Turkey: WSJ
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was involved in an alleged plan to seize a Muslim cleric and deliver him…
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Opioid abuse crisis takes heavy toll on U.S. veterans
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Opioid drug abuse has killed more Americans than the Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam wars combined, and U.S. veterans and advocates this Veteran’s Day are focusing on how to help victims…
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Republican Senate candidate Moore hit by sexual misconduct allegations
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A woman has accused Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, of initiating a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 years old and he was 32,…
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Air Force missed at least two chances to stop Texas shooter buying guns
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force missed at least two chances to block the shooter in last weekend’s deadly church attack in Texas from buying guns after he was accused of a…
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'That's art?' Baby turns heads in Manhattan auction house window
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – A sculpture of a baby sleeping in an unusual New York City exhibit has Park Avenue window-shoppers alerting auction house staff that a child has been “forgotten in the display.”…
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1 in 5 U.S. adults used tobacco in 2015: government study
[ad_1] CHICAGO (Reuters) – One in five adults in the United States was using some form of tobacco in 2015, according to national survey data released on Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
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Pence pays tribute to fallen and heroes from Texas massacre
[ad_1] FLORESVILLE, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled on Wednesday to rural southeastern Texas, where he paid tribute to the victims and heroes from a church massacre that stands as the deadliest…
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Texas and Florida carry out executions on same day
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Texas put to death a Mexican national on Wednesday for the kidnap, rape and murder of his cousin, and Florida on the same day put to death a 53-year-old man for a…
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Ohio workers vote on unionization at Chinese supplier plant
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Workers at a Chinese-owned auto glass plant in southwestern Ohio will finish voting on Thursday on whether to join the United Auto Workers, in a test of the union’s strategy for organizing…
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A Texas school is devastated by church shooting
[ad_1] SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) – It was heartbreaking for Jennifer Berrones to explain to her 7-year-old daughter Kaylee that her friend and classmate Emily was not coming back to school after Sunday’s church massacre…
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Arkansas pushes ahead with summertime ban on Monsanto, BASF weed killers
[ad_1] CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Arkansas regulatory body voted on Wednesday to bar the use of a weed killer critical to Monsanto Co’s seed sales for a second consecutive summer, ratcheting up a standoff after…
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Homeland Security nominee says no need for full U.S.-Mexico border wall
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security told a U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday there was no need to build a wall on the Mexican border “from sea to…
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Democrats win bitter Virginia governor's race in setback for Trump
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Ralph Northam won a bitter race for Virginia governor on Tuesday, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump with a decisive victory over a Republican who had adopted some of…
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Business group pushes for U.S. flood insurance reform as December deadline looms
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The latest attempt to overhaul the U.S. federal flood insurance program hit a stumbling block, but a coalition of business and environmental groups renewed their push on Wednesday for lawmakers to…
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Voters in Maine approve expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Voters in Maine on Tuesday approved a ballot initiative to expand the state’s Medicaid program under Obamacare, sending a clear signal of support for the federal healthcare law to lawmakers in the…
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Charges dropped against woman who laughed at Trump nominee Sessions
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A peace activist who laughed at then U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearing to become U.S. attorney general will no longer be prosecuted on charges of disrupting a session of…
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Roy Halladay, ex-Major League pitching star, dies in plane crash off Florida
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Retired Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay, who twice won the game’s top pitching award and threw one of only two no-hitters in postseason history, died on Tuesday when his small plane…
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Puerto Rico board asks Congress for backing in fight with governor
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federally appointed oversight board that manages Puerto Rico’s finances asked Congress for support on Tuesday in its fight with the island’s governor over who should take charge of halting efforts…
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Hard-fought Virginia governor's race to test Trump's clout
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bitterly fought governor’s race in Virginia leads a slate of state and local elections on Tuesday that offer an early test of President Donald Trump’s political influence and possible strategies…





