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US appeals court rebuffs Trump request to reconsider gag order in 2020 election case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday declined to reconsider its decision to largely uphold a judge's order limiting former President Donald Trump's statements about people involve...
TJ Carson Jan 23, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a rally in advance of the New Hampshire primary election in Laconia, New Hampshire, U.S. January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar

UPDATE: Biden to court support of auto workers at UAW event
UPDATED 2:37 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will speak to United Auto Workers members on Wednesday at a legislative conference in Washington, the union said Tuesday, as he looks ...
TJ Carson Jan 23, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden joins striking members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) on the picket line outside the GM's Willow Run Distribution Center, in Belleville, Wayne County, Michigan, U.S., September 26, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

Netflix to stream WWE Raw in $5 billion bet on live events
(Reuters) -Netflix took a big step into live events on Tuesday with a more than $5 billion rights deal that would make it the exclusive home of World Wrestling Entertainment's Raw from January 2025. T...
TJ Carson Jan 23, 2024 Apr 2, 2023; Inglewood, CA, USA; Omos (black pants) and Brock Lesnar (black shorts) during Wrestlemania Night 2 at SoFi Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports/files

Atomic bomb blockbuster 'Oppenheimer' leads Oscar nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - "Oppenheimer," the epic film about the World War Two race to build the first atomic bomb, landed a leading 13 Oscar nominations on Tuesday and will compete for th...
TJ Carson Jan 23, 2024 Actors Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid host the announcement of the 96th Oscars Nominations, in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., January 23, 2024. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

UPDATE: US pushes for pause in Gaza as Israel suffers worst loss of soldiers
UPDATED 3:20 P.M. GAZA/JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Tuesday its envoy was having active discussions about ensuring the release of hostages in Gaza and securing a humanitaria...
TJ Carson Jan 23, 2024 Friends and family mourn Israeli military reservist Sergeant First Class Hadar Kapeluk, 23, who was killed in the southern Gaza Strip amid the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at his funeral at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, January 23, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

US, British forces carry out new strikes in Yemen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities use...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2024 Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 being preparded to take off. Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft have conducted precision strike operations against Houthi military targets in response to further attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, in this undated handout image. UK MOD/Handout via REUTERS

Staffing agencies not exempted from antitrust law, state Supreme Court rules
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - Staffing agencies - a fast-growing industry that employs nearly a million Illinoisans - are not exempt from the state's antitrust law, the Illinois Supreme ...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2024 Justice P. Scott Neville wrote the Illinois Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion that staffing agencies are not exempt from the state’s antitrust laws. (Capitol News Illinois illustration)

US Supreme Court lets Border Patrol remove Texas razor-wire fencing - for now
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to temporarily let U.S. Border Patrol agents cut or remove razor-wire fencing that Texas officials placed along part of the Republican-governed stat...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Razor and concertina wire, installed by the Texas National Guard, is placed in Shelby Park at the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal

Biden, Harris target Trump, Republicans on abortion rights
WASHINGTON/WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday took aim at Republican curbs on abortion rights, a galvanizing issue for Democrats that t...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at a virtual event on securing access to reproductive and other health care services at the first meeting of the interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, in Washington, U.S., August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

Dexter King, younger son of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 62
(Reuters) - Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died on Monday of prostate cancer, the King Center in Atlanta announce...
TJ Carson Jan 22, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Dexter Scott King, son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. answers questions regarding the family rift over the selling of King Center property to National Park Service, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, after the Martin Luther King, Jr. annual commemorative service in Atlanta, Georgia January 16, 2006. REUTERS/Tami Chappell
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