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PARKLAND, Florida (Reuters) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday remembered the victims of a 2018 mass shooting at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people, pushing for states to strengthen laws on seizing firearms from high-risk people. “We have a duty to remember a…

(Reuters) — Prosecutors on Thursday announced that no criminal charges would be filed in the death of nonbinary Oklahoma teenager Nex Benedict, who died one day after a fight at school that may have followed bullying due to Benedict’s gender identity. The Oklahoma medical examiner on March 13…

(Reuters) — A third man was charged on Thursday with murder after a gunfight on the fringe of a Super Bowl victory rally in Kansas City, Missouri, last month killed one person and wounded more than 20 others in a quarrel over eye contact, prosecutors said. Terry Young, 20, faces second-degree murde…

WASHINGTON/CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) — Mexico filed a court brief supporting the U.S. Department of Justice’s opposition to a Republican-backed Texas law that would empower state authorities to arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The law, …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday asked the Biden administration to impose higher tariffs on Chinese drones, including those shipped from other countries, and new incentives to boost U.S. drone manufacturers. Representative Mike Gallagher, chairman of the Hous…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A fundraising group run by Donald Trump, who is facing four criminal trials as he seeks the U.S. presidency, stepped up spending on legal fees last month, further draining money from efforts to return him to the White House, financial disclosures showed on Wednesday. In a fil…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. government-chartered helicopter flights began carrying American citizens from the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Wednesday amid rising violence, the State Department said, with a first flight transporting more than 15 people to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.…

DALLAS (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden assailed Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz in his home state on Thursday as part of a fundraising tour that has raised millions for Biden’s re-election campaign. Biden, at a fundraiser at the Dallas home of lawyer Russell Budd, urged donors to suppo…