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(Reuters) — U.S. border officials on Sunday closed two rail bridges that move freight between Texas and Mexico after detecting a surge in the smuggling of migrants through Mexico by train. The move by U.S. Customs and Border Protection was the latest in a series of similar closures along the border…

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (Reuters) — President Joe Biden was safe on Sunday night after a car collided with a motorcade SUV that was part of the president’s security detail, a Reuters witness said. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden had just left his campaign headquarters when the collision occurred…

WASHINGTON (White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders) —  President Joe Biden on Monday issued the following statement marking the 80th anniversary of the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act, one of several discriminatory federal laws that expressly targeted…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Lakers basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was scheduled to undergo hip surgery Saturday after falling down at a concert in Los Angeles, according to a spokesperson. Abdul-Jabbar, 76, was treated Friday night by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics and transported to a lo…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — COVID-19 and flu are rising across California, sparking new warnings from health officials to take precautions as the wider winter holiday season looms. The uptick is modest and not wholly unexpected — wintertime surges have been an annual occurrence since the coronavirus fir…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The year isn’t over, but San Francisco has already hit a grim milestone: 2023 is the deadliest on record for fatal drug overdoses. More than 750 people died in accidental drug overdoses during the first 11 months of 2023, according to a report released this week from th…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — Former President Donald Trump said he’d end tax exemptions for universities deemed to be left-leaning if voters return him to the White House, pointing to the uproar over campus antisemitism that engulfed three college presidents in recent weeks. Trump told a campaign rally i…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — U.S. Rep. Ken Buck’s decision last month not to seek reelection to Congress opened a tantalizingly rare window for Republicans in eastern Colorado: a red seat in one of the state’s few remaining conservative strongholds that, once won, would be tough to ever lose. “If somebod…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A congressional staffer has reportedly been fired after footage featuring him and another man seemingly having sex in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill was leaked online. The eight-second clip was published by the Daily Caller alongside an article penned by Henr…

CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — A Georgia middle school teacher is facing charges after he allegedly threatened to behead a Muslim student who told him the Israeli flag in his classroom was offensive. Benjamin Reese was arrested and booked into jail on counts of felony terroristic threats and misdemeanor cr…