By Kanishka Singh and Dan Whitcomb WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A homeless man was arrested on Thursday after an attack on U.S. Representative Angie Craig, who was left bruised after fighting off her assailant in an elevator of her apartment building, police said. The suspect, identified by District of Columbia Metropolitan Police as 26-year-old Kendrick Hamlin, was …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw TAMPA (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden traveled on Thursday to Florida and positioned his Democratic party as the sole protector of Social Security and Medicare in an aim to reclaim the state, which has a large population of retirees who rely on the programs. Speaking to supporters in a …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With first lady Jill Biden attending the big game, President Joe Biden says he plans to watch this coming Sunday’s Super Bowl at home on television, with a bowl of ice cream. The first lady’s beloved Philadelphia Eagles play the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, and she …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -Battles over abortion are heating up in state capitol buildings across the United States as lawmakers wrestle with how much to restrict or expand abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Here is a snapshot of state legislation seeking to ban or protect abortion access …
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By Nelson Wyatt LAVAL, Quebec (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined a grieving suburban Montreal community at a vigil on Thursday evening, a day after a bus driver plowed his vehicle into a local daycare center, killing two children and injuring six other kids. Police charged the driver, 51-year-old Pierre Ny St-Amand, with nine …
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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -A possible revision to a joint Japanese government and Bank of Japan (BOJ) statement that focuses on pulling the country out of deflation must be discussed with the new BOJ governor, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said. “What to do with the statement is something the government must discuss with the …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s finance minister reaffirmed on Friday his view that consumer prices would ease around the April-May months, a week after data showed the country’s annual inflation had unexpectedly ticked up in January. “The inflation data will get better to a level we need to worry about less than at present,” Minister …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Senator John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke last year, was taken to a hospital late on Wednesday after feeling lightheaded but tests show he did not have a new stroke, his office said in a statement on Thursday. The 53-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat asked his staff to take him to a hospital in Washington …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden, his aides and his Democratic allies are shrugging off polls showing doubts about his age and leadership as they plot his expected re-election campaign, and point instead to the U.S. president’s flinty State of the Union speech to Congress this week as a sign of his political resiliency. …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – More than 20 Republican-led states, along with gun rights groups and a disabled Army veteran, on Thursday sued the Biden administration over a new rule restricting sales of gun accessories known as pistol braces. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in North Dakota, the states said that the rule …
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