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California searches for 1,000 missing in its deadliest fire

Editorial Bureau November 17, 2018

Calif. (Reuters) – Forensic recovery teams pressed their search for more victims in the flame-ravaged northern California town of Paradise on Friday as authorities sought clues to the fate of about 1,000 people reported missing in the state’s deadliest wildfire on record. Remains of

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U.S. prosecutors get indictment against Wikileaks’ Assange – court document

Editorial Bureau November 16, 2018

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – American prosecutors have obtained a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published thousands of classified U.S. government documents, a U.S. federal court document showed on Thursday. The document, which prosecutors say was filed by mistake, asks a judge to seal documents in a criminal case unrelated to

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Tally of missing in California’s deadliest blaze surpasses 600

Editorial Bureau November 16, 2018

PARADISE, Calif. (Reuters) – A search for victims of a catastrophic blaze that reduced a northern California town to ashes intensified on Thursday, as authorities expanded to 630 the number of those reported missing in the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history. At least 63 people have been confirmed dead in the Camp […]

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Exclusive: China sends written response to U.S. trade reform demands – U.S. govt sources

Editorial Bureau November 15, 2018

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China has delivered a written response to U.S. demands for wide-ranging trade reforms, three U.S. government sources said on Wednesday, a move that could trigger more formal negotiations to resolve a withering trade war between the world’s top economies. U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on $250 billion (192.17 billion

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Florida Republican Scott asks that ballots be guarded in U.S. Senate race recount

Editorial Bureau November 12, 2018

(Reuters) – Florida Republican Governor Rick Scott, whose lead has narrowed in the state’s U.S. Senate race, filed more lawsuits against local election officials on Sunday, asking a judge to order police to impound voting machines and ballots when they are not in use. On Saturday, a machine recount began in the race between Scott […]

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Democrats to probe Trump actions on AT&T, Amazon: aide

Editorial Bureau November 12, 2018

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Democrats take control of the U.S. House they plan to investigate the Trump administration’s attempt to block AT&T Inc from acquiring Time Warner, and whether officials sought to punish Amazon.com Inc by prodding the U.S. Post Office to hike shipping prices for the world’s largest e-commerce company, a senior Democrat and

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FBI hopes to learn what drove ex-Marine to kill 12 in California bar

Editorial Bureau November 9, 2018

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (Reuters) – The FBI is hoping to build a clear profile of a former U.S. Marine combat veteran who killed 12 people in a crowded Los Angeles area bar to discover a motive for the latest shooting massacre in the United States. The gunman, 28-year-old Ian David Long, entered the Borderline Bar […]

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U.S. judge drops some charges against ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort

Editorial Bureau October 22, 2018

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday agreed to drop criminal charges against Paul Manafort that a jury deadlocked on in August, as a federal judge set a Feb. 8 date for the former Trump campaign manager’s sentencing on charges of bank fraud and filing false tax returns. Prosecutors had initially favoured waiting until […]

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Trump says U.S. to exit landmark nuclear arms pact, Russia threatens retaliation

Editorial Bureau October 21, 2018

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said Washington would withdraw from a landmark Cold War-era treaty that eliminated nuclear missiles from Europe because Russia was violating the pact, triggering a warning of retaliatory measures from Moscow. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, negotiated by then-President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail

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Trump says it ‘certainly looks’ like journalist Khashoggi is dead

Editorial Bureau October 19, 2018 0

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday it “certainly looks” like U.S.-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead. Khashoggi did not reappear from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 where he went to collect documents for his planned marriage. Turkish officials have said they believe the journalist, a critic of […]