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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization was kept far more secret than previously known, officials disclosed on Sunday, adding his deputy to a long list of people right up to President Joe Biden who were kept in the dark for days. Austin, who is 70, was adm…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Cameron Diaz, whose name was listed in Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed in New York City this week, is denying any ties to the late multimillionaire sex offender. The “Charlie’s Angels” star, 51, “ never met Jeffrey Epstein, nor was she ever in the same place as him or had …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson on Saturday invited President Joe Biden to give the State of the Union address on March 7. Johnson, a Republican, said in a letter to Biden, a Democrat, it was his duty to send the invite “in this moment of great…

(Reuters) — A group of Michigan Republicans voted on Saturday to remove Kristina Karamo as state party chairperson after months of infighting and slow fundraising raised concerns her leadership would hurt the party’s chances in the key swing state in 2024. Karamo, a former community college i…

NEWTON, Iowa (Reuters) — Donald Trump largely avoided speaking of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol during a campaign event on Saturday, which took place on the attack’s third anniversary, reflecting the degree to which Republican voters have absolved him of responsibility for tha…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday for an unspecified medical matter, the Pentagon said late on Friday, without detailing why he was being treated or why it kept his hospital stay secret all week. Austin, who is 70, sits just below Presiden…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — New York City’s historic, two-year snow drought may not come to an end this weekend, despite the arrival of a winter storm system that began passing through the most populous U.S. city and across the East Coast on Saturday. The city’s 8.5 million residents have not …

(Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Saturday reinstated a judge’s ruling that barred California from enforcing a new law that bans the carrying of guns in most public places, a measure that the judge had concluded was unconstitutional. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved a orde…

(Reuters) — U.S. regulators on Saturday temporarily grounded certain Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks following a cabin panel blowout that forced a new Alaska Airlines jet carrying passengers to make an emergency landing. A piece of fuselage tore off the left side of the jet as it climb…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement on Saturday he took “full responsibility” for secrecy surrounding an ongoing, week-long hospitalization for a still unspecified medical condition. Austin, who is 70, was admitted on New Year’s Day to Wa…