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By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access oil pipeline that evaluated but made no recommendation of five alternatives, including abandoning or rerouting the pipeline. A U.S. court last year ordered the federal government to undertake a …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday rejected a push by Senate Democrats to have him recuse himself from a tax case that involves an attorney who interviewed him for a newspaper article and helped him “air his personal grievances.” Alito, in a statement attached to a routine order issued …

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By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -Power prices in Texas soared on Friday with electric use expected to hit a record high as homes and businesses blasted their air conditioners to escape another sweltering heat wave. So far this week, the state’s electric grid operator has passed several reliability tests after urging homes and businesses to conserve …

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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to preserve broad access to the drug as the company appealed a lower court’s ruling that would curb how the medication is delivered and distributed. Danco Laboratories said it filed its appeal of an August decision …

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(Reuters) – Philadelphia’s district attorney charged former police officer Mark Dial with murder on Friday for fatally shooting Eddie Irizarry as he sat in his car in August after being pursued by Dial and another police officer for alleged erratic driving. Graphic body-camera footage aired at a press conference on Friday showed Dial and his …

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(Reuters) -Dish Network said on Friday U.S.-based Hearst Television removed customer access to 37 local channels in 27 markets after the companies failed to agree on distribution rates despite months of talks. The news comes days after Disney channels disappeared from Charter Communications’ Spectrum cable service, depriving its nearly 15 million subscribers of access to …

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(Reuters) – Early research data has shown that antibodies produced by prior infection or existing vaccines against the coronavirus were sufficient to protect against the new BA.2.86 variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. The Food and Drug Administration in the coming days is expected to authorize the updated …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state’s attorney general on Friday said Donald Trump may have fraudulently inflated his fortune by far more than previously thought, her latest salvo in preparation for trial in her civil lawsuit against the former U.S. president and his family business. In a filing with a New …

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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House conference room where President Barack Obama and his top aides watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been dismantled as part of a just-completed major renovation of the “Situation Room” complex. The $50 million refresh of the legendary space, which comprises an entire multiroom …

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