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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -New York’s governor on Monday ordered prison reforms and began the process of firing corrections officers who earlier this month beat a restrained Black inmate who died a few hours later. Kathy Hochul’s office said in a written statement that she visited the Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York, where …

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By Jonathan Allen and Brad Brooks (Reuters) -A state funeral for Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who died on Sunday at the age of 100, will be held at the Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Army.     U.S. President Joe Biden, who last year said that Carter had asked him …

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By Jose Torres TAPACHULA (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants waited in long lines outside an immigration office in southern Mexico on Monday, hoping to secure safe passage north and enter the U.S. legally before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. Trump plans to end President Joe Biden’s humanitarian programs, including one that allows migrants …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -January brings several consequential dates for the U.S. Congress as Republicans consolidate power as a result of last November’s elections with full control of the Senate, House of Representatives and White House.  JAN. 3: The 119th Congress convenes with new members being sworn in. Republicans hold a narrow majority of …

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(Reuters) – The Biden administration on Monday took steps to protect the Ruby Mountains in northeast Nevada from oil, gas and geothermal development for 20 years. The Interior Department said it had approved an application by the U.S. Forest Service to withdraw 264,442 acres of federal lands in the Ruby Mountains from mineral and geothermal …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge said Hain Celestial Group must face a proposed class action claiming its labels failed to disclose the alleged presence of arsenic in some of its baby food. U.S. District Judge Nina Morrison in Brooklyn said parents plausibly alleged that some of Hain’s Earth’s Best Baby …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threw his support behind House Speaker Mike Johnson, who will stand for reelection to the top job this week with a slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives. “Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5-million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in …

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