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Amid Trump backlash, his U.N. envoy says stand up, isolate hate
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told staff in an email – seen by Reuters on Friday – that everyone must stand up and condemn hate, as President Donald…
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Mayor says Lee statue must go as debate over U.S. slave past rages
[ad_1] RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – The mayor of Charlottesville called on Friday for a special session of Virginia’s legislature to let localities decide the fate of Confederate monuments like the statue at the center of…
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Solar eclipse to be streamed live for first time, from balloons
[ad_1] CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) – Next week’s solar eclipse will be streamed live online for the first time, from the vantage point of helium-filled balloons across the United States, providing the public with sky-high views…
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In Charlottesville, Germans sense echoes of their struggle with history
[ad_1] BERLIN/WEIMAR, Germany (Reuters) – For the past decade, the pupils of the Manfred von Ardenne school in Berlin have been visiting a local cemetery to tend the graves of victims of the Nazis. By…
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Self-sufficient eclipse chasers hit the road to 'totality'
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Michael Zeiler packed his portable toilet then headed out on a 10-hour drive from New Mexico to Wyoming where, on Monday, he intends to mark the ninth time he has seen the…
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U.S. Navy to remove senior leaders of warship after deadly June crash
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy will relieve the two senior officers and the senior enlisted sailor on a U.S. warship that collided with a Philippine container ship in June off the coast of…
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Arkansas gets new batch of lethal injection drug, seeks execution date
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Arkansas has acquired a new batch of a drug it uses in lethal injections, prompting the state’s attorney general on Thursday to request an execution date for an inmate first sentenced to…
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Filmmaker Michael Moore says Trump will 'get us all killed'
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is trading screen time for the stage in a one-man show now on Broadway that is a call to action over the current state of U.S.…
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Museum or dumpster? U.S. cities wrestle with Confederate statues' fate
[ad_1] (Reuters) – As communities across the United States redouble efforts to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces after a far-right rally in Virginia turned deadly, city leaders now face another conundrum: what to do…
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Mylan, U.S. finalize $465 million EpiPen settlement
[ad_1] BOSTON (Reuters) – Mylan NV (MYL.O) has finalized a $465 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, resolving claims it overcharged the government for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment, which became the center of…
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Wisconsin lawmakers debate billions in incentives for Foxconn plant
[ad_1] (Reuters) – The Wisconsin State Assembly on Thursday will consider a $3 billion incentive package for a proposed liquid-crystal display factory by Taiwan’s Foxconn, the first vote on the deal by a chamber of…
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Truck driver formally indicted for 10 immigrant deaths in Texas
[ad_1] AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A truck driver accused of smuggling immigrants inside a packed and sweltering tractor-trailer through Texas, 10 of whom died, was formally indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday on…
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Possession of small amounts of narcotics now minor offense in Oregon
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Possession of small quantities of narcotics like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine are no longer felonies in Oregon under a measure signed into law by Governor Kate Brown, who said on Wednesday that…
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U.S. court rules Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood funding
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed a ruling that prevented Arkansas from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood following the release of controversial videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group.…
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Black banker sues Goldman Sachs for racial discrimination
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A black banker in Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s (GS.N) personal wealth management unit filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the firm of steering top clients to her white colleagues and denying her…
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Virginia city to hold memorial service for woman killed in violence
[ad_1] CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) – A 32-year-old woman killed when a suspected white nationalist crashed his car into anti-racist demonstrators in Charlottesville was to be remembered on Wednesday at a memorial service in this southern…
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Trump-backed candidate for Senate heads to Alabama run-off
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A Republican candidate backed by President Donald Trump for a U.S. Senate seat from Alabama is expected to finish a distant second in a primary election on Tuesday, but will still have…
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Texas 'bathroom bill' dies in special legislative session
[ad_1] AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas measures to restrict access for transgender people to bathrooms in schools and public buildings died on Tuesday as the House adjourned and ended its special legislative session. Business leaders…
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Jurors begin deliberating in trial of four Bundy supporters in Nevada
[ad_1] LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Jurors at a federal court in Nevada began deliberations on Tuesday in the retrial of four men accused of numerous charges for acting as gunmen in the 2014 standoff led…
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Lincoln Memorial in Washington defaced with expletive
[ad_1] (Editor’s note: Please be advised that paragraph 2 contains language that some readers may find offensive) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Lincoln Memorial in the U.S. capital was spray painted with expletive graffiti that was…
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U.S. cities step up removal of Confederate statues, despite Virginia violence
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Undeterred by violence over the planned removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, municipal leaders in cities across the United States said this week they would step up efforts to pull…
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Trump faces business backlash over handling of Charlottesville upheaval
[ad_1] CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, facing a mounting political furor and backlash from business leaders, has explicitly condemned neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists two days after a…
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California sues Trump administration over sanctuary policy
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday over federal restrictions on some law enforcement grants to so-called sanctuary cities, continuing a legal counterattack by Democrats against President Donald…
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Taylor Swift wins groping trial against DJ, awarded symbolic $1
[ad_1] DENVER (Reuters) – Taylor Swift won her trial against a Colorado radio personality on Monday after a jury found that the former DJ assaulted and battered the pop star by groping her bare bottom,…
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Woods had five drugs in system at time of DUI arrest: report
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Former world number one golfer Tiger Woods had five different drugs in his system when he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in May, according to an ESPN report…
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Texas 'bathroom bills' stall in special legislative session
[ad_1] AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas measures to restrict access for transgender people to bathrooms in schools and public buildings appear doomed after moderate Republican powerbrokers blocked the bills and hundreds of businesses opposed them.…
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Man arrested in plot to bomb Oklahoma bank
[ad_1] (Reuters) – An Oklahoma man was arrested after what he thought was an attempt over the weekend to bomb an Oklahoma City bank building as part of an anti-government plot, U.S. prosecutors said on…
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Merck CEO resigns from Trump council after Charlottesville
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Merck & Co Inc Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier resigned from U.S. President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council on Monday, saying he was taking a stand against intolerance and extremism. A gathering of…
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Driver accused of murder in Charlottesville violence faces court hearing
[ad_1] CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) – A man said to have harbored Nazi sympathies as a teenager before a failed bid to join the U.S. Army was due in court on Monday to face charges he…
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GoDaddy boots white supremacist web site after offensive post
[ad_1] (Reuters) – The web hosting company GoDaddy said on Sunday it had given The Daily Stormer 24 hours to move its domain to another provider after the extremist web site posted an article denigrating…





