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CHARLOTTE, N.C (TNS) — The man in the black skull cap and what looked like a gas mask banged on the window of her silver Nissan on a street in Trenton, New Jersey, about 8:40 a.m. Saturday. When he pulled out a gun, said 67-year-old Sonya Hanson, whose 9-year-old grandson was in the car, “I was sha…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden on Friday condemned what he termed an ugly resurgence of Islamophobia since the Oct. 7 start of the Israel-Gaza war but a leading Muslim advocacy group dismissed his comment and urged a change in U.S. policy instead. Biden issued his statement on the Inter…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Peter Navarro, who served as trade adviser under former President Donald Trump, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to let him remain free while he appeals his conviction for defying a subpoena in a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capi…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — Donald Trump on Friday accused the New York prosecutors who charged him with crimes stemming from hush money paid to a porn star of trying to obstruct his access to damaging information about his former lawyer Michael Cohen, a key witness in the case. The first-ever criminal tr…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The White House counsel’s office urged the Republican leader in the House of Representatives on Friday to end an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden after months of investigation turned up no evidence that the president had done anything wrong. In a letter to H…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Production at U.S. factories increased more than expected in February amid a rise in temperatures, but data for the prior month was revised sharply down as manufacturing remains hamstrung by high interest rates. Manufacturing, which accounts for 10.3% of the economy, has been…

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — The dollar was firm on Friday and set to snap a three-week losing streak as hotter-than-expected U.S. inflation data stoked worries about when and by how much the Federal Reserve would start cutting interest rates this year. Data on Thursday showed the U.S. producer price inde…

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday toured a health clinic that offers abortion services while she was in Minnesota, spotlighting growing restrictions on women’s rights that Democrats believe will animate voters in November. The visit, believed to be …

FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) — A federal judge on Thursday denied former U.S. President Donald Trump’s request to dismiss a criminal case that charges him with illegally holding onto classified documents after leaving the White House. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Flori…

(Reuters) — James Crumbley, whose son killed four fellow students in a 2021 U.S. school shooting, criminally failed to heed warning signs about his son’s instability, resulting in a foreseeable tragedy, prosecutors said in closing arguments on Wednesday at his manslaughter trial. Crumbley, 47…