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'Send her back' chant at Trump rally catches Republicans off guard
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chants of "send her back" by supporters of President Donald Trump, attacking Somali-born U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, triggered a wave of concern among congressional Republicans on Thursday, while Omar said Trump was "spewing fascist ideology." Read More
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Trump says U.S. Navy 'destroyed' Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a U.S. Navy ship had "destroyed" an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the ship, in the latest incident in the Gulf. More »
Documents detail Trump team's efforts to arrange payment to porn star
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Documents released by a judge's order on Thursday detailed a flurry of communications involving Donald Trump, his campaign team, personal lawyer Michael Cohen and others to engineer hush-money payments shortly before the 2016 election to an adult-film actress who said she had a sexual encounter with the president. More »
Microsoft beats revenue estimates on cloud boost
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Illinois man receives life sentence for murder of Chinese graduate student
PEORIA, Ill. (Reuters) - An Illinois man described by prosecutors as obsessed with serial killers was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for the kidnapping and decapitation of a Chinese graduate student two years ago. More »
Trump's tariffs trip up the all-American RV industry
ELKHART, Ind. (Reuters) - Carrie Gray points to a stack of unwelcome mail on a conference table at the offices of Renegade RV, one of the leading U.S. manufacturers of high-end recreational vehicles. Sheâs buried in bad news from most of her about 350 suppliers. More »
Financier Jeffrey Epstein to remain jailed until sex trafficking trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - American financier Jeffrey Epstein will remain behind bars while he awaits trial on charges of sex trafficking dozens of underage girls, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday. More »
Exclusive: U.S. Gulf maritime proposal not military coalition against Iran - Pentagon official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is not aiming to set up a military coalition against Iran with its new security initiative in the Gulf, but simply "shining a flashlight" in the region to deter attacks on commercial ships, a top Pentagon official told Reuters. More »
House passes bill to raise federal minimum wage to $15 an hour
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by October 2025, a big win for workers and labor groups, even as it remained unlikely the bill would pass a Republican-controlled Senate. More »
Wall Street edges higher as Fed's Williams boosts rate-cut hopes
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks moved higher on Thursday after a slow start as comments from New York Fed President John Williams further cemented expectations for interest rate cuts from the U.S. central bank at the end of the month. More »
