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Las Vegas campus gunman described as struggling academic with ‘target list’

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The gunman who killed three professors and wounded one at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was a financially struggling academic whose job applications were rejected by several higher-education institutions in Nevada, police said on Thursday. Anthony James Polito, 67, also had mailed nearly two dozen suspicious letters to faculty at …

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Australia ‘heartened’ as US Congress expected to pass AUKUS provisions

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s government on Friday welcomed signs that a U.S. defense spending bill which would authorise the sale of nuclear submarines to Australia is set to pass Congress after a compromise between Republicans and Democrats. The sale is part of AUKUS – a pact with the United States and Britain …

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Trump fake electors buckle in Wisconsin, get charged in Nevada

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nevada charged six Republican fake electors in connection with a scheme to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, while 10 false electors reached a legal settlement in Wisconsin that affirmed the Democrat’s victory. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Wednesday’s actions marked the latest legal developments in a 2020 plan to …

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Woodside in talks with Santos to form $52 billion Australian gas giant

By Scott Murdoch, Emily Chow and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Woodside Energy and Santos said on Thursday they were in preliminary talks to create an A$80 billion ($52 billion) global oil and gas giant, as consolidation among international energy firms intensifies. Combining two of Australia’s largest oil and gas producers would be the …

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UPS fires about 35 newly organized US workers, Teamsters union says

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Teamsters union that represents U.S. workers at United Parcel Service on Thursday said it would respond to the firing of about 35 newly organized workers at the delivery company by filing unfair labor practice charges and potentially striking. The roughly three dozen affected specialist and administrative workers at UPS’s Centennial hub …

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