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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks has received “credible death threats,” she said in a statement on Wednesday, after voting against Representative Jim Jordan for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Jordan, a hardline conservative, was formally nominated by a majority of his party last week but has been unsuccessful …

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BOSTON (Reuters) – More than 80% of ships are speeding through “go slow” zones set by environmental regulators along the U.S. East Coast to protect endangered North Atlantic Right Whales, according to a report released on Thursday by environmental group Oceana. North Atlantic Right Whales are on the brink of extinction, numbering just 340, with …

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By Rich McKay and Daniel Trotta ATLANTA (Reuters) – Officials on Wednesday released video of the traffic stop and physical confrontation that ended with a sheriff deputy in Georgia shooting a Black man to death at point-blank range. Leonard Allan Cure, 53, died on Monday after a Camden County sheriff’s deputy shot him; the officer …

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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Veteran character actor Burt Young, best known and Oscar nominated for his role as the brother-in-law and meat-cutting friend to Sylvester Stallone’s prize-fighting protagonist in the “Rocky” films has died at age 83, his manager said on Wednesday. Young’s death on Oct. 8 in Los Angeles, first reported …

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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) -An Alaska state agency on Wednesday sued the Biden administration over its decision to cancel oil and gas leases in the state’s North Slope, one of the country’s largest reserves of pristine federal land. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenges the U.S. Interior Department’s Sept. 6 decision …

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(Reuters) – – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday ordered Norfolk Southern Corp to carry out additional cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, following the Feb. 3 derailment of a company-operated freight train. The EPA said it also ordered Norfolk Southern to conduct additional investigations into oily sheen, or film, on water and sediments …

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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two moderate Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who have voted against Jim Jordan’s bid for speaker said they did so out of concern that their hardline colleague did not have a clear plan to avoid a government shutdown next month. THE TAKE Representatives Nick LaLota and Anthony …

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