(Reuters) – United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain will hold a Facebook Live event on Friday, the union said, as 34,000 of its members continue selective strikes against the Detroit Three automakers over the failure to reach agreements on new contracts. Fain has used some previous such events on Fridays to announce expansions of strikes …
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By David Morgan, Moira Warburton, Katharine Jackson and Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hardline conservative Jim Jordan pressed ahead with his floundering bid for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, after his fellow Republicans abandoned a backup plan to allow the leaderless chamber to resume business. The House will hold a third speaker …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump does not have immunity from criminal charges for trying to reverse his 2020 U.S. presidential election loss, federal prosecutors said Thursday, opposing his bid to dismiss the case. “No constitutional provision or historical practice supports conferring absolute immunity from criminal prosecution on a former president,” Washington prosecutors said …
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By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – A very active Atlantic hurricane season so far this year has not sent storms across U.S. oil and natural gas fields in the northern Gulf of Mexico, sparing energy companies billions of dollars of losses and consumers higher fuel costs. The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season has been another in …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday declared a California law banning assault weapons unconstitutional, saying the prohibition enacted in 1989 against semi-automatic weapons could not stand under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that expanded gun rights. San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez ruled in a challenge to the …
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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying defamation verdicts stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday. Bankruptcy can be used to wipe out debts and legal judgments, but not if they result …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to nominate his top White House Asia aide Kurt Campbell to serve as deputy secretary of state, said three U.S. sources on Thursday, tapping the veteran policy-maker as Washington seeks to stabilize ties with China. The sources, who included a U.S. official, a congressional source and …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday opted not to intervene in a legal fight over Louisiana’s disputed map of its six congressional districts, potentially delaying the adoption of one to replace a Republican-crafted version that a judge found unlawfully diluted the clout of Black voters. The Black voters and civil rights …
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By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Thursday proposed increasing transparency around cryptocurrency “mixers” to combat the use of the tool by groups like the Palestinian militant group Hamas. If finalized, the rule would require financial firms to report information about transactions that they suspect involve crypto mixers, …
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By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) -U.S. consumers would be able to more easily transfer their data between financial services providers under a long-awaited Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposal unveiled on Thursday that would boost competition between financial technology firms. The so-called open banking draft rule, which officials say they hope to finalize in 2024, would …
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