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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -At least 21 people were injured Monday in an apparent gas leak explosion at the Sandman Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, the city’s fire department said. Nobody was killed in the explosion and authorities were investigating the cause. Video images from the scene showed rubble in the street between two …

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By Jeff Mason CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday denounced white supremacy and political violence in a direct message to Black voters during a visit to South Carolina aimed at shoring up a critical constituency whose support has waned since he took office. Biden spoke from the pulpit of the historic …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. Congress are blocking emergency funding for Ukraine and threatening to force a government shutdown in an effort to tighten security along the U.S.-Mexico border. WHY ARE REPUBLICANS FOCUSING ON BORDER SECURITY? Record numbers of migrants have been caught illegally crossing the border since Democratic President …

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By Valerie Insinna, David Shepardson and Rajesh Kumar Singh WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) -Boeing’s latest 737 MAX crisis deepened after United Airlines and Alaska Airlines said they had found loose parts on multiple grounded MAX 9 aircraft, raising new concerns among industry experts about how its best-selling jet family is manufactured. U.S. regulators grounded 171 MAX 9 …

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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wayne LaPierre ran the National Rifle Association (NRA) as “Wayne’s World” for decades, a lawyer for New York state said at the start of the gun rights group’s corruption trial, three days after LaPierre suddenly resigned as chief executive. New York Attorney General Letitia James had …

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By Max A. Cherney and Abhirup Roy SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – (This Jan. 4 story has been corrected to say that Bosch is scheduled to speak at CES on AI and cybersecurity, not that Bosch is expected to showcase a gun-detection system, in paragraph 9 and fixes executive’s name to Aakash Arora in paragraph 11) …

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By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Nasdaq scored its first gain of at least 1% in 2024 on Monday, as a fall in Treasury yields helped lift megacap stocks, while a sharp drop in Boeing shares kept gains on the Dow Industrials in check. Megacaps advanced, lifting stocks such as Amazon.com which closed up …

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By Jeff Mason, Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden does not plan to fire Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after his failure to disclose his hospitalization last week, officials said on Monday, as the Pentagon revealed a second hospital stay that was kept from the White House. Biden’s …

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By Joanna Plucinska, Abhijith Ganapavaram and Tim Hepher (Reuters) -Boeing shares plunged to close 8% lower on Monday following the temporary grounding of some of its best-selling 737 MAX jets by the U.S. aviation regulator. A piece of fuselage tore off an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 jet on Friday following takeoff from Portland, Oregon, …

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