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Biden to speak Sunday on Afghanistan, Hurricane Henri response
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday will provide an update on the administration's response to Hurricane Henri and the evacuation of American citizens and refugees from Afghanist...
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson hospitalized with COVID-19
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Civil rights leader and former Democratic politician Jesse Jackson and his wife have both been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, the group he founded said in a s...
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Private equity firms circling Sainsbury’s with view to launch bids – Sunday Times
(Reuters) - Private equity companies are circling British supermarket group Sainsbury's with a view to possibly launching bids of more than 7 billion pounds ($9.53 billion), The Sunday Times reported....
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Texas Governor Abbott tests negative for COVID-19 after short illness
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott, whose state is engulfed in a fourth COVID surge, said he tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday after having a "brief and mild" bout with the i...
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U.S. State Department recently hit by a cyber attack -Fox News
(Reuters) -The U.S. State Department was recently hit by a cyber attack, and notifications of a possible serious breach were made by the Department of Defense Cyber Command, a Fox News reporter tweete...
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U.S. administers 361.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines -CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 361,684,564 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Saturday morning and distributed 428,506,065 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Yellen backs reappointing Powell as Fed chair -Bloomberg tweet
(Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told senior White House advisers she backs reappointing Jerome Powell as U.S. Federal Reserve Chair, a Bloomberg News reporter wrote on Twitter htt...
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IL lawmakers to return to Springfield to discuss redistricting
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois House and Senate will return to Springfield on August 31 for a special session focused on redistricting. Lawmakers will discuss potential changes in the legislat...
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Russia pledges retaliation after new U.S. sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow pledged retaliatory measures after a new set of sanctions imposed by the United States on a Russian ship and two companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Russia'...
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Biden cancels Delaware trip on Saturday, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Biden will no longer be traveling to Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday, White House said, and will remain in Washington. A White House official said Biden is curre...
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