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Biden’s New York meets with New York’s Eric Adams

By James Oliphant and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s meeting with New York Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss combating escalating gun crime signals Democrats want to send a message that they will not cede the issue of public safety to Republicans this election year. Republicans contend that a pandemic-era spike

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Former public defender Jackson among possible Biden Supreme Court picks

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ketanji Brown Jackson, a federal judge seen as a potential U.S. Supreme Court nominee for President Joe Biden, could make history as the first Black woman justice, boasting a varied legal resume including representing criminal defendants who could not afford a lawyer. Jackson, 51, who Biden last year appointed

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Confederate symbols falling faster as U.S. wakes up to past wrongs – report

By Julio Cesar-Chavez and Dan Fastenberg RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) – A year after George Floyd’s murder sparked the toppling of Confederate statues, the United States continues removing segregationist symbols at an unprecedented rate, according to a Southern Poverty Law Center report released on Tuesday. But the removal of 73 statues, signs and school names in

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More U.S. Black colleges and universities receive bomb threats

By Julia Harte and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -At least a dozen historically Black colleges and universities in the United States received bomb threats and put their campuses on lockdown on Tuesday, a day after a rash of similar threats forced the cancellation of classes at other schools. The threats against the schools in cities from

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