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Puerto Rico's path to restore power shifts after Whitefish exit
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Efforts to restore electricity to Puerto Rico nearly six weeks after Hurricane Maria are shifting as the island’s utility and its regulators, along with U.S. authorities, removed a key contractor…
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Army deserter Bergdahl apologizes to troops injured searching for him
[ad_1] FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) – U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl took the stand at his sentencing on Monday, apologizing to the troops who got hurt searching for him after he deserted in Afghanistan in…
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Two ex-Trump aides charged in Russia probe, third pleads guilty
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal investigators probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election charged President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort and another aide, Rick Gates, with money laundering on Monday. A third…
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Army judge says Trump comments have not influenced Bergdahl case
[ad_1] FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has not hurt the soldier’s chances of a fair sentence for deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009…
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Soldier's brain injury in focus at U.S. Army's Bergdahl sentencing
[ad_1] FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Reuters) – The wife of a U.S. soldier who suffered a debilitating brain injury during the search for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan is expected to be one of prosecutors’…
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Puerto Rico moves to cancel Whitefish power contract after uproar
[ad_1] WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Puerto Rico’s government power company said on Sunday it will cancel a $300 million contract with a tiny Montana company to restore power to the storm-hit U.S. territory after an…
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Most of NFL's Houston Texans kneel during anthem after owner's 'inmates' remark
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Most of the National Football League’s Houston Texans team knelt in protest as the national anthem was played for Sunday’s game in Seattle, an apparent rebuke of team owner Bob McNair for…
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INSYS founder resigns from board after charges in U.S. opioid bribe case
[ad_1] (Reuters) – The billionaire founder of INSYS Therapeutics Inc John Kapoor, has resigned from the company’s board of directors, INSYS said in a statement on Sunday. The billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc. John…
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Puerto Rico governor calls for cancellation of Whitefish contract
[ad_1] WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló wants to cancel a tiny Montana company’s $300 million contract to restore power to the storm-hit U.S. territory and expects help from the governors of…
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Cuba to make it easier for Cuban Americans to visit
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cuba will make it easier for its U.S.-based citizens to travel to the island, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Saturday, in a gesture to win support from Cuban Americans during…
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U.S. journalist faces sexual harassment furor over memoir
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Rolling Stone journalist and author abruptly canceled his remarks at a humanities festival on Saturday after backlash over a memoir he published in 2000, which critics say gleefully recounts…
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Texans owner meets with players after 'inmates' comment
[ad_1] (The Sports Xchange) – A day after his “inmates running the prison” comment in reference to ongoing player protests during the national anthem became public, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair met with team players…
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White nationalists stage anti-refugee protests in Tennessee
[ad_1] SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) – About 300 white nationalists and neo-Nazis held back-to-back rallies in two small Tennessee cities on Saturday to protest refugee resettlement in the state, which sued the federal government over the…
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Tennessee cities brace for protests over refugee resettlement
[ad_1] (Reuters) – White nationalists and neo-Nazis are expected to converge on the small Tennessee cities of Shelbyville and Murfreesboro on Saturday to protest refugee resettlement in the state, seven months after it sued the…
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U.S. court allows evidence from FBI child porn site probe
[ad_1] BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a decision that threw out evidence obtained in an undercover FBI probe to charge a Massachusetts man prosecutors said was a user of the…
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U.S. women gather in Detroit to build on anti-Trump Women's March
[ad_1] DETROIT (Reuters) – Thousands of women who marched to protest Republican President Donald Trump’s inauguration gathered in Detroit on Friday to organize around issues like the viral “Me Too” movement exposing the pervasiveness of…
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Tiny Montana firm's Puerto Rico power deal draws scrutiny
[ad_1] WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal emergency officials raised “significant concerns” on Friday about a $300 million contract between Puerto Rico’s storm-hit power utility and a tiny Montana firm, as Democratic lawmakers stepped up calls…
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U.S. drops robotics trade secrets case against Chinese-Canadian man
[ad_1] BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against a dual citizen of China and Canada accused of trying to steal trade secrets from a Massachusetts-based manufacturer of robotic surgical products by trespassing…
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In pro-Trump Ohio county, opioid announcement disappoints
[ad_1] COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) – Doug Corcoran is in the trenches every day in the fight against the opioid crisis in the rural Ohio county he helps oversee. Ross County Commissioner Doug Corcoran poses in…
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U.S. judge extends deadline for bank records of firm behind Trump dossier
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge has given an unnamed bank more time to respond to a congressional subpoena for financial records of the Washington research firm that hired a former British spy to…
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New York lets neighborhood return to nature to guard against storms
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Every now and then, Frank and Mary Lettieri come back to visit what used to be their tightly packed Staten Island neighborhood before Superstorm Sandy prompted New York state to…
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Trump declares opioids a U.S. public health emergency
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency on Thursday, stopping short of a national emergency declaration he promised months ago that would have freed up more…
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Sex and drugs: U.S. study links marijuana use to more intercourse
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Where there is smoke, there tends to be fire, say medical researchers who found frequent marijuana users have about 20 percent more sex than those who abstain. FILE PHOTO: A…
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Insured losses from deadly California wildfires could hit $3 billion
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Insured property losses from wildfires that raged through Northern California wine country this month, killing at least 42 people and destroying thousands of businesses and homes, could total $2 billion to $3…
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Trump releases some JFK files, blocks others under pressure
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the unveiling of 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the FBI and CIA to…
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Kentucky judge who refused to hear gay adoption cases resigns
[ad_1] LOUISVILLE (Reuters) – A Kentucky judge who made national headlines earlier this year for his refusal to hear adoption cases involving gay, lesbian or bisexual adults has resigned, a state commission announced on Thursday.…
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Billionaire Insys founder charged in U.S. opioid bribe case
[ad_1] BOSTON (Reuters) – The billionaire founder of Insys Therapeutics Inc was arrested on Thursday on U.S. charges that he participated in a scheme with other executives to bribe doctors to prescribe a fentanyl-based cancer…
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Americans want to see a bipartisan fix for Obamacare: Reuters/Ipsos poll
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – As Republican and Democratic lawmakers clash over the future of Obamacare, Americans largely are eager for a bipartisan solution to its shortcomings, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on…
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High cholesterol levels among U.S. adults declining: CDC report
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The prevalence of U.S. adults with high cholesterol declined significantly between 1999-2000 and 2015-2016, achieving a long-term public health goal, according to data released on Thursday by the Centers for…
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George H.W. Bush apologizes after actress accuses him of groping
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush apologized through a spokesman on Wednesday for what an actress described as a sexual assault but which Bush said was intended as a friendly…





