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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown’s office on Wednesday released a redacted version of an investigative report that detailed sexual abuse accusations against clergy within the Archdiocese of Baltimore dating back to the 1940s. The report of more than 450 pages is the product of a grand jury investigation four years in the making. “What we learned is that the incontrovertible history uncovered by this […]

By Cheney Orr and Brad Brooks NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Thursday on whether to expel three Democratic members for their roles in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week. Republican Representatives Andrew Farmer, Gino Bulso, and Bud Hulsey filed three resolutions on Monday to expel their Democratic colleagues. The resolutions on Monday passed in a preliminary vote along […]

(Reuters) – Rogers Communications Inc said on Thursday its customers in various parts of Canada are being impacted by power outages caused by a recent ice storm. More than a million people went without power on the day after an ice storm hit Canada’s two most populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong winds that toppled trees and weighed down power lines. “Our wireless customers […]

(Corrects first paragraph to remove reference to Hydro One Ltd) (Reuters) -Rogers Communications Inc said on Thursday its customers in various parts of Canada are being impacted by electricity outages caused by the recent ice storm. “Our wireless customers remain connected, however, some may notice a degradation of service with fewer available sites due to power outages,” Rogers said in a tweet. (Reporting by Arunima Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by […]

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to let West Virginia enforce a state law banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public schools, one of many Republican-backed measures across the country targeting LGBTQ rights. The justices denied West Virginia’s request to lift an injunction against the law that a lower court had imposed while litigation continues over its legality in a challenge brought by […]

By Michel Rose and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Xi Jinping expressed willingness to speak to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the head of the EU said on Thursday, after French President Emmanuel Macron urged Beijing to talk sense to Russia over the war in Ukraine. In closely watched talks, European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen and Macron met with Xi in Beijing. Macron said the West must engage China […]

(Reuters) – Rogers Communications Inc said on Thursday its customers in various parts of Canada are being impacted by power outages caused by a recent ice storm. More than a million people went without power on the day after an ice storm hit Canada’s two most populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong winds that toppled trees and weighed down power lines. “Our wireless customers […]

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -A Ugandan court charged a minister on Thursday with several corruption offences connected to accusations of diverting metal roofing sheets meant to help residents in the restive northeastern Karamoja region, court documents showed. Prosecution of ministers for corruption is rare in Uganda, where stealing and the misuse of public funds and materials is routine. Karamoja, in a remote region bordering Kenya and South Sudan, is […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve tax enforcement and customer service, it said on Thursday . The tax agency, in its long-awaited Strategic Operating Plan, said it will obligate about $8.64 billion of the new funding during the […]