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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -An hour after Rabbi Jonathan Leener put out a call for donations among his small Brooklyn synagogue community, he had raised $5,000. Soon he had taken in enough supplies to fill an SUV. The contributions included everything from sleeping bags to toiletries for the 300,000 reservists – some of whom live …

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(Reuters) – Most U.S. consumers will spend about the same or less than they did last year to heat their homes this winter, depending on where they live and what fuel they use, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its winter fuels outlook on Wednesday. EIA forecast the 46% of U.S. households that …

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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday appeared poised to revive a Republican-drawn electoral map in South Carolina that was blocked by a lower court for racial bias after 30,000 Black residents were moved out of a congressional district. During arguments in a case that could …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK -In 2018, a bespectacled Stanford graduate named Caroline Ellison decided to leave her job on Wall Street to join a startup cryptocurrency hedge fund called Alameda Research because she thought she would earn more money to give to charitable causes. On Tuesday, nearly a year after Alameda collapsed, Ellison took …

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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Arizona Republican Kari Lake, a far-right ally of Donald Trump, on Tuesday is expected to announce her candidacy for her party’s U.S. Senate nomination, in what could be a highly competitive three-way general election race in November 2024. Arizona is already one of the most politically competitive U.S. states …

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(Reuters) – U.S. gymnastics icon Mary Lou Retton is “fighting for her life” and has been in an intensive care unit for more than a week battling a rare form of pneumonia, her daughter said on Tuesday. Retton, 55, has not been able to breathe on her own, her daughter McKenna Kelley said in a …

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