By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday honored Emmett Till, the Black teenager whose 1955 killing helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, and his mother with a national monument spanning two states and a call for Americans to learn the country’s full history. Till, 14 and visiting from …
(This July 21 story has been corrected to say the proposed standards are not technologically feasible for some Rinnai products, not technologically impossible for its products, in paragraph 7) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday proposed energy efficiency standards on water heaters it said would save consumers $11.4 billion on energy …
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By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden’s new regulation restricting asylum access at the U.S.-Mexico border, upending a key tenet of his plan to deter migration after COVID-era Title 42 restrictions ended in May. California-based U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar stayed the order for …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The billionaire investor Leon Black was sued on Tuesday by an autistic woman who says he raped her in the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan in 2002, when she was 16. In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the woman, using the pseudonym Jane Doe, …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives is due to begin voting this week on a series of Republican spending bills for fiscal 2024 that could lead to a new standoff between hardline conservatives and party leaders including Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Lawmakers will consider two appropriations bills that would provide $155.7 billion …
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By David Morgan and Costas Pitas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Rick Scott and Democrat Elizabeth Warren have asked for salary information from the Federal Reserve’s inspector general, the central bank’s watchdog, in a push to make the role independent, a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday shows. The IG’s office said it was reviewing …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The U.S. Forest Service said it started another New Mexico wildfire in 2022, bringing to three the number of blazes it sparked in the drought-hit state last year, including the largest in the contiguous United States. The Cerro Pelado Fire began in April 2022 near Los Alamos when strong winds …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The 18-year-old son of NBA legend LeBron James suffered a cardiac arrest while practicing with the University of Southern California (USC) basketball team and was in stable condition, ESPN reported on Tuesday, citing a James family statement. The statement said Bronny James was no longer in intensive care at a hospital …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign said on Tuesday it had let go of 38 employees in recent weeks, or over one-third of the campaign’s staff, as the Florida governor seeks to cut spending and rally his flagging electoral fortunes. DeSantis, who is vying for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration will cancel $130 million in debt for 7,400 student borrowers who enrolled at the now-defunct CollegeAmerica in Colorado from 2006 through July 1, 2020, the Education Department said. CollegeAmerica, a private institution, shut down in September 2020 after an investigation by Colorado’s attorney general found it made widespread …
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