By Matthew Lewis (Reuters) -Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and main songwriter in The Band, the Canadian-American group known for songs including “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” has died at the age of 80, his manager said on Wednesday. Robertson, who left his Toronto home at age 16 to pursue his …
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By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The White House on Wednesday said it had launched a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to spur use of artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix security flaws in U.S. government infrastructure, in the face of growing use of the technology by hackers for malicious purposes. “Cybersecurity is a race …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Norfolk Southern Corp has agreed to improve conditions for workers rebuilding and cleaning up the site of its February derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the U.S. Labor Department said on Wednesday. The department said the railway company entered into the agreement with the federal government and the Teamsters’ Railway …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said its agents shot and killed a Utah man on Wednesday during a raid that a source said targeted the man for allegedly making threats against U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and law enforcement officials. The FBI in Salt Lake City said the shooting …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Ohio voters on Tuesday rejected a Republican-backed measure that would have made it harder to amend the state constitution, an initiative aimed at helping defeat a November referendum that would protect abortion access in the state. The results in the special election were a crucial victory for abortion rights advocates, who …
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(Reuters) – A player in Florida won a $1.58 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot on Tuesday, the lottery website showed. The winning numbers drawn were 13, 19, 20, 32, 33, and the Megaplier was 14, according to the Mega Millions website. The winner can choose between receiving the $1.58 billion in annual payments, or taking …
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By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) -U.S. power plant owners warned the Biden administration on Tuesday that its sweeping plan to slash carbon emissions from the electricity sector is unworkable, relying too heavily on costly technologies that are not yet proven at scale. Top utility trade group the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) asked the …
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By Liliana Salgado TEMPE, Arizona (Reuters) – The pickleball craze in the United States has reached new heights with the opening last weekend of the first “Picklemall,” an indoor sports facility inside a mall in Tempe, Arizona. The courts at the Arizona Mills mall in a suburb of Phoenix will be open to anyone hoping …
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By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to boost wages and worker protections on federally funded construction projects, drawing the ire of trade groups that warn the union-friendly changes could curtail investment. Vice President Kamala Harris celebrated the new labor reforms at a Philadelphia union hall, calling the administration unapologetically …
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By Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Los Angeles municipal employees went on a 24-hour strike on Tuesday to protest what their union calls bad-faith bargaining by city officials over a new contract, the latest in a series of job actions affecting Los Angeles. Mechanics, lifeguards, traffic officers and others marched in picket lines at city …
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