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Olympics-Salt Lake City submits bid to host 2034 Winter Olympics
(Reuters) - Salt Lake City officially submitted its bid to host the 2034 Winter Olympics on Thursday with officials hailing the moment as a "monumental day". Even with no other cities in the running f...
Feb 29, 2024 An ice maker installs a sub-glacial Olympic logo ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Yanqing National Sliding Centre in Yanqing, China, January 28, 2022. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo
Texas Panhandle fire expands to 1 million acres, becoming state's largest ever
CANADIAN, Texas (Reuters) -Fire crews on Thursday fought to contain a deadly wildfire that has burned more than 1 million acres (404,686 hectares) of grasslands, timber and residential areas in Texas'...
Feb 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A drone view of the grasslands burning from the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Roberts County, Texas, U.S., February 28, 2024. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino/File Photo
Central Illinois election officials clarify current status of Donald Trump on primary ballots
PEORIA, Ill. - Despite a ruling from a Cook County judge, election officials in central Illinois say you can still cast a vote for Donald Trump. On Wednesday, Cook County judge Tracie Porter ruled the...
Feb 29, 2024 (Midwest Communications)
UPDATE: Trump appeals ruling disqualifying him from Illinois ballot
UPDATED: 11:31 A.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Thursday appealed an Illinois judge's ruling barring him from appearing on the state's Republican presidential primary ballot because of the f...
Feb 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends the closing arguments in the Trump Organization civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 11, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
UPDATE: US House approves bill to avert government shutdown
UPDATED 1:17 P.M. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill to avert a partial government shutdown, sending the measure to the Democrati...
Feb 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) makes a statement to members of the news media after meeting with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other congressional leaders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 27, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
Republicans blast US Defense Secretary Austin over health secrecy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican lawmakers slammed U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a hearing on Thursday for failing to disclose his prostrate cancer surgery and subsequent hospitalization to P...
Feb 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks on the day of the Armed Forces Farewell Tribute in honor of General Mark A. Milley, 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an Armed Forces Hail in honor of General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., the 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at Summerall Field at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Arlington, Virginia, U.S., September 29, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
US pending home sales fall in January as high mortgage rates deter buyers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pending U.S. home sales retreated in January, a report on Thursday showed, as buyers continue to struggle with still-high mortgage rates. The National Association of Realtors Pend...
Feb 29, 2024 A "For Rent, For Sale" sign is seen outside of a home in Washington, U.S., July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger
Biden, Trump make competing election-year visits to southern US border
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, his likely Republican opponent in the November election, will make dueling visits to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday as a large inf...
Feb 29, 2024 A stage is set up in Shelby Park for former U.S. President Donald Trump's border visit event, in Eagle Pass, Texas, U.S., February 28, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura
Gaza health authorities say Israeli fire kills 104 waiting for aid
CAIRO (Reuters) -Health authorities in Gaza said on Thursday Israeli fire on people waiting for aid near Gaza City had killed 104 Palestinians and wounded 280, with one hospital saying it had received...
Feb 29, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A military vehicle maneuvres near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Israel, February 28, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo
Cook County judge orders Trump removed from GOP ballot but holds decision pending appeal
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A Cook County judge on Wednesday ordered former President Donald Trump's name to be removed from the March 19 Republican primary ballot but stayed her order...
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