WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged a seventh grandchild for the first time on Friday in a statement to People Magazine. The 4-year-old girl is the child of Biden’s son, Hunter, who settled a years-long court battle over child support in June. “This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter. …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The backup safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in 2018 pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to probation, prosecutors said. Rafaela Vasquez, who was charged with negligent homicide in 2020, pleaded guilty to endangerment, a …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Friday revised its fiscal 2023 U.S. budget deficit forecast to $1.543 trillion, a decrease of $26 billion from its March budget forecast, due largely to a major reduction in outlays after the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program in June. The …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the prescription-free sale of the second opioid overdose reversal drug, its manufacturer Harm Reduction Therapeutics said on Friday. The approval of the drug, called RiVive, will provide patients with another over-the-counter option in the United States, where drug-related overdose deaths surpassed 100,000 in 2021. Harm …
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By Clark Mindock and Timothy Gardner (Reuters) – The White House on Friday proposed reforms to the environmental review process for new energy projects that it said would help speed up permitting for electric transmission and other projects needed to curb emissions linked to climate change. The proposal would revise National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision to strike down a regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms known as “ghost guns” that are difficult for law enforcement to trace. The action by Alito, who handles emergency matters arising from a group …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that Congress lacks the power to regulate the court, in an interview published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday a week after Senate Democrats advanced a bill to impose an ethics code. The Democratic-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw AUBURN, Maine (Reuters) -President Joe Biden joked Friday about Republican lawmakers threatening to impeach him, saying the latest reports on U.S. economic gains mean his political opponents “may have to find something else to criticize” him over. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in Washington, this …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will allow some migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are already in Mexico to apply to enter the United States as refugees, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday. The move will add to a range of new legal pathways opened …
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By Steve Holland and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s unexplained freezeup while speaking in Congress this week is the latest reminder that America’s most powerful political leaders are much older than many in other democracies. Joe Biden, 80, is the oldest U.S. president to ever serve in the White House, …
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