By Andrea Shalal LARGO, Maryland (Reuters) -President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday to get U.S. gasoline prices down, one day after a report showed consumer inflation surged by the most in 14 months due to higher energy costs. KEY QUOTE “I’m going to get those gas prices down again, I promise you,” Biden told an …
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -General Motors said Thursday it hiked its contract offer to a 20% wage hike for U.S. autoworkers – including 10% in the first year – in a bid to avoid a strike that is set to begin at 11:59 p.m. if no deal is reached. The targeted actions against selected auto …
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By Andrea Shalal LARGO, Maryland (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday warned that Republican-backed spending cuts would take a toll on the U.S. economy and voters, as the clock ticks down to a possible government shutdown. The federal government would enter its fourth shutdown in a decade next month unless the Republican-controlled House of Representatives …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday asked utility company Hawaiian Electric CEO Shelee Kimura to testify at a hearing investigating the causes of the wildfire that killed at least 115 people and razed the historic town of Lahaina. The hearing will take place on Sept. 28 in Washington before the panel …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto has won his asylum appeal to remain in the United States, 15 years after seeking refuge amid fear of persecution in Mexico and deportation efforts by U.S. officials, a media organization said on Thursday. The Board of Immigration Appeals this week ruled Gutierrez, who came to the …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Wednesday ruled against a program offering deportation relief and work permits to immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, known as “Dreamers,” despite an attempt by President Joe Biden’s administration to bolster the program’s standing with a new regulation. The decision by Texas-based U.S. District …
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(Reuters) – Unionized refinery workers at Phillips 66’s 356,000 barrel per day Wood River refinery in Roxana, Illinois, ratified a contract with the refiner in late-stage negotiations, union leaders said on Wednesday. A majority of about 370 operators in the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 399 voted Wednesday to accept the proposal, averting a …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was captured on Wednesday with the help of a heat-sensing aircraft and a police dog, ending an intense, two-week manhunt that unnerved residents in the Philadelphia suburbs, authorities said. Tactical teams surrounded the fugitive, Danelo Cavalcante, about 8 a.m. in a rural …
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By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday said Republicans wanted to impeach him because they want to shut down the government, hours after the White House denounced plans to launch an impeachment inquiry against the president. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the inquiry a “political stunt” and said …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a ban on carrying guns in New Mexico’s largest city after the order by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham threw the state into the center of the U.S. gun-rights debate. U.S. District Court Judge David Urias said the governor’s 30-day suspension of concealed and open …
