(Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 struck near Stanton in West Texas on Monday, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake struck at a depth of 7.8 km (4.8 miles), USGS said. The earthquake happened in the Permian Basin, home of the largest shale oil and gas field. This is the second strongest earthquake …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Monday pledged to ease a shortage of COVID-19 tests as the Omicron variant threatened to overwhelm hospitals and stifle travel plans as it spreads across the United States this holiday week. “Seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a …
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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado prosecutor went to court on Monday in a rare bid to seek a reduced prison term for a truck driver sentenced to 110 years behind bars for vehicular homicide stemming from a fiery 2019 crash along a mountain highway that killed four motorists. Jefferson County District Attorney …
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(Reuters) -U.S. health authorities on Monday shortened the recommended isolation time for Americans with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to five days from the previous guidance of 10 days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said the asymptomatic people after isolation should follow five days of wearing a mask when around others. It also …
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By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -Jurors in British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial deliberated for a third full day on Monday without reaching a verdict, after reviewing the testimony of one of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s personal pilots. Maxwell, who turned 60 on Christmas Day, is accused of recruiting and grooming https://www.reuters.com/world/us/closing-arguments-ghislaine-maxwells-sex-abuse-trial-kick-off-2021-12-20 four teenage …
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(Reuters) – The official death toll in Kentucky from a swarm of devastating tornadoes that struck the state on Dec. 10 has climbed to 77, with an infant in hard-hit Graves County counted as the latest fatality, Governor Andy Beshear said on Monday. Reuters had previously reported at least 74 people perished, a dozen of …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, for fiscal year 2022, which authorizes $770 billion in defense spending, the White House said on Monday. Earlier this month, the Senate and the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly for the defense bill https://www.reuters.com/world/us/majority-us-senate-backs-770-billion-defense-bill-2021-12-15 with strong support …
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(Reuters) – The United States has administered 503,480,667 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Monday morning and distributed 609,589,955 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The agency said 242,433,620 people had received at least one dose, while 205,196,973 people are fully vaccinated as of 6:00 a.m. ET on …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, a leading liberal House Democrat, has asked President Joe Biden to continue focusing on his social spending legislation and urged him to use executive action despite Senator Joe Manchin’s public rejection of the plan. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Sunday, Jayapal, chair of …
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A current spokesman for former U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said in a court filing that he has cooperated extensively with the congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The spokesman, Taylor Budowich, said in a lawsuit, filed in federal court in the …
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