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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Three U.S. service members were killed and dozens may be wounded after an unmanned aerial drone attack on U.S. forces stationed in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden and U.S. officials said on Sunday. Biden blamed Iran-backed groups for the attack…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday accused party leaders of not being honest brokers in her campaign against Donald Trump and said she did not have to win the nominating contest in South Carolina to stay in the race. Haley, a former U.S. ambassador to the…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Two people who died in San Diego County jails in 2021 and 2022 should not even have been in Sheriff’s Department custody, an independent investigation has found. In another case, deputies stood by for months as a man lost more than one-third of his body weight while rep…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Two teenagers leaving their Loop high school were fatally wounded in a midday shooting Friday that startled onlookers under a busy “L” station in the center of the city. Around 12:25 p.m., the teens — 16- and 17-year-old boys — were leaving Innovations High School with about …

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Train service between Orange and San Diego counties in Southern California remains disrupted after a landslide in San Clemente with no timetable for reopening the tracks through the area, a spokesman for the regional rail authority said Saturday. The Wednesday slope failure s…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) —  U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed scheduling a call between the two countries’ leaders for sometime this spring, a senior US official said. Sullivan and Wang concluded two days of talks in Bangkok on Saturday, the lat…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — United States Navy ships fired on a Houthi anti-ship missile in Yemen hours after a tanker operated on behalf of trading giant Trafigura Group carrying a cargo of Russian fuel was hit in the most significant attack yet by the rebel group on an oil-carrying vessel. The U.S. Ce…

(Reuters) — The U.S. is reviewing its sanctions policy against Venezuela after a court in that country upheld a ban preventing presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, the U.S. State Department said on Saturday. The ruling by Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal on Fri…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Donald Trump on Saturday said he feels “sharper now than I did 20 years ago,” reacting to recent attacks on his age and verbal gaffes by Republican presidential rival Nikki Haley. Trump also said presidential candidates should have to take a cognitive test, appare…

(Reuters) — resident Joe Biden’s administration is expected to award billions of dollars in subsidies in coming weeks to top semiconductor companies including Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to help build new factories in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.…