By Anna Tong and Dan Whitcomb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -A tech executive was arrested on Thursday for the stabbing murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco, police said, stressing that the suspect knew the victim but declining to discuss a possible motive for the crime. Lee was found stumbling through the streets …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Thursday approved exports of liquefied natural gas from the Alaska LNG project that one day could help the United States compete with Russia to ship natural gas from the Arctic to Asia. The Department of Energy approved Alaska Gasline Development Corp’s (AGDC) exports of LNG from …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) – Florida’s Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday gave final approval to a six-week abortion ban, setting the stage for abortion access to be drastically curtailed in the state and across the U.S. South. Lawmakers in the Florida House approved the ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy in a …
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By Jonathan Landay, Idrees Ali and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The latest U.S. intelligence leak illustrates a paradox of spycraft: keeping secrets means limiting their distribution but protecting against dangers like another Sept. 11, 2001, attack means sharing them. Balancing those twin demands is a key challenge for U.S. President Joe Biden as his …
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By Adriana Barrera and Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico and the United States on Thursday agreed to ramp up the fight against fentanyl trafficking, as well as Mexico’s Sinaloa and CJNG drug cartels and their supply chains, in joint bid to reduce consumption of the powerful opioid. The deal came after a meeting …
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(Reuters) – A raging industrial fire in eastern Indiana is expected to be almost entirely extinguished by Thursday evening or Friday morning, officials said, after days of thick smoke shut down schools and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. The blaze at a plastics recycling facility in Richmond, Indiana, a city of 35,000 about 70 …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday said Donald Trump’s defamation trial over whether he raped a writer in the mid-1990s will begin as scheduled on April 25, rejecting the former president’s bid for a delay but letting him learn more about how his accuser is paying her legal bills. …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to halt a legal settlement that would erase more than $6 billion in debt owed by former students of colleges – many of them for-profit institutions – who have said they were misled by schools about academics and job prospects. The justices turned …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – More than 18,000 cows died after an explosion and fire at a family dairy farm in west Texas, marking the deadliest such barn blaze on record in the United States. Firefighters rescued one employee from the South Fork Dairy near Dimmitt on Monday as flames raced through a building and …
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Thursday is issuing new guidance to federal agencies to revise government workforce plans as it aims to “substantially increase” in-person work by government employees at headquarters offices, according to a memo seen by Reuters. The memo to executive branch agencies from White House Office of …
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