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Attorneys for 200 victims of Houston concert stampede bring 90 lawsuits
(Reuters) -Attorneys representing more than 200 people who claim to have been injured in last week's Astroworld Festival stampede that killed nine people in Houston said on Friday that they will file ...
Nov 12, 2021
Biden expected to nominate Califf to head FDA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Robert Califf to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday, a source familiar with the decision told Reuters. Califf...
Nov 12, 2021
‘We don’t want any more Black pastors’ in Arbery murder trial, lawyer says
(Reuters) - A lawyer for one of the three white men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery said his team did not want "any more Black pastors coming" into the Georgia courtroom after a civil rights leader...
Nov 12, 2021
U.S. journalist Fenster sentenced to 11 years in jail in Myanmar – lawyer
(Reuters) - American journalist Danny Fenster has been sentenced to 11 years in prison by a court in Myanmar, his lawyer Than Zaw Aung said on Friday. Fenster, the managing editor of online magazine F...
Nov 11, 2021
Affirmative action opponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to take UNC, Harvard cases together
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - Opponents of policies used to boost the number of Black and Hispanic students on American college campuses on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear two cases...
Nov 11, 2021
Committee probing Capitol riot threatens to hold former top Trump aide in contempt
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol threatened former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff on T...
Nov 11, 2021
Independent monitor says UAW has ‘fallen short’ in reform efforts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An independent court-appointed monitor named to oversee the United Auto Workers union after a federal corruption probe said on Thursday the union has "fallen short" to date in i...
Nov 11, 2021
Ransomware takes center stage in U.S. official’s Middle East trip
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo will travel to the Middle East on Friday, a Treasury spokesperson told Reuters, where he will seek to build par...
Nov 11, 2021
U.S. appeals court pauses release of Trump documents to House riot probe
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday put off allowing congressional investigators access to former President Donald Trump's White House records relating to the Jan. 6 at...
Nov 11, 2021
Travis Scott asks victims of Astroworld stampede to contact him for help
(Reuters) -Rapper Travis Scott on Thursday asked victims of the stampede at his Astroworld Festival in Houston to contact him directly to provide them with help. Scott's representatives said in a stat...
Nov 11, 2021
