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U.S. board to announce decision on Kansas City Southern acquisition deal

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Surface Transportation Board said it plans to announce on Wednesday whether it will approve or reject Canadian Pacific’s $31 billion deal to acquire U.S. railroad Kansas City Southern. The acquisition, which combines the sixth- and seventh-largest U.S. railroads by revenue, was agreed to in 2021. The deal has since …

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California, Northeast menaced by late-season winter storms

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

By Steve Gorman and Brendan O’Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California, reeling from a month-long string of late-winter storms, braced for another bout of heavy rains, wind and snow on Monday, while most of New York state and New England girded for a powerful Nor’easter. The leading edge of the latest Pacific storm swept into …

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Further U.S. involvement in Ukraine is not vital national interest, says DeSantis

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

(Reuters) – Becoming “further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia” is not a vital U.S. national interest, said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is eying running for president, in comments released on Monday. Public opinion polls show DeSantis as the strongest threat to former President Donald Trump for their party’s nomination for …

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California copes with heavy rain, flooding in latest ‘atmospheric river’ storm

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

By Steve Gorman and Brendan O’Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Emergency officials in several California counties spent Friday patrolling levies and swollen rivers as an “atmospheric river” storm drenched the already-sodden state with torrential rains, causing floods that washed out roads and prompted evacuations. The latest deluge from dense streams of Pacific moisture sweeping California’s …

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Analysis-Legal challenges could delay Alaska’s Willow oil project

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

By Clark Mindock and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The oil industry on Monday cheered the U.S. government’s greenlighting of ConocoPhillips’ multibillion-dollar oil drilling project in Alaska’s Arctic, but court challenges could mire the plans in further delays. President Joe Biden’s administration approved a trimmed-down version of the $7 billion Willow project on federal lands in …

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California court upholds treating app-based drivers as contractors

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A California state appeals court on Monday revived a ballot measure allowing app-based services such as Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc LYFT.O> to treat drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, in a major victory for the industry. A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based court reversed a lower …

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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifies before grand jury

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, testified on Monday afternoon before a Manhattan grand jury investigating a hush money payment he has said he orchestrated to porn star Stormy Daniels on behalf of the former president. “This is all about accountability. He needs to be held accountable for …

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Top U.S. Republican McConnell to move to rehab after being released from hospital

14 Mar 2023 14 Mar 2023

By Kanishka Singh and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell was released from a hospital and will continue receiving treatment at a rehabilitation facility, his office said on Monday after one of Washington’s most powerful figures suffered a fall last week. McConnell’s recovery from a concussion is proceeding well, his office …

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U.S. to extend humanitarian stay for Ukrainians who entered via Mexico border

13 Mar 2023 13 Mar 2023

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will allow Ukrainians who entered the United States last year at the Mexico border to renew their humanitarian status, giving them continued access to government benefits like health insurance and food stamps. The extension is a victory for advocates who have urged the administration of U.S. …

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Soccer-Berhalter cleared by U.S. Soccer investigation, remains candidate for coaching job

13 Mar 2023 13 Mar 2023

(Reuters) – An investigation into former U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter’s dispute with his wife outside a bar in 1992 concluded that U.S. Soccer was not in the wrong for hiring him as the national team coach, the federation said on Monday. The investigators’ conclusions mean there is now no legal impediment to employing Berhalter, who …

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