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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell said on Friday she was opening an inquiry into railroad hazardous materials safety practices after a Feb. 3 Ohio derailment of a train operated by Norfolk Southern raised new concerns. Cantwell wrote the chief executives of Norfolk Southern, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF), Canadian National, …

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By Nathan Layne HILLSDALE, Mich (Reuters) – Jon Smith, a local leader in rural Michigan of America First, a far-right Republican faction that denies the results of the 2020 election, wants to shift the entire party to the right – even if it means short-term losses at the ballot box. “We need to redefine what …

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By Maria Alejandra Cardona MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Reuters) – Five former Memphis police officers on Friday pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges stemming from last month’s beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black man whose death three days later stirred outrage and fresh calls for reform. Police video captured images of the officers beating …

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By Daphne Psaledakis and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will directly warn companies against evading U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over the war in Ukraine, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said, as Washington seeks to further squeeze Russia’s economy. Speaking to Reuters ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Rick Scott on Friday revised his plan to end all federal programs after five years to exclude the popular Social Security and Medicare programs, after enduring weeks of mounting criticism from Democrats and his fellow Republicans. Democratic President Joe Biden had been hammering the “Rescue America” agenda, …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A major food safety sanitation company has paid $1.5 million in penalties for employing more than 100 teenagers in dangerous jobs at meatpacking plants in eight states, the U.S. Department of Labor said on Friday. The department said Packers Sanitation Services Inc allowed at least 102 children between 13 and …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government will select the 10 costliest prescription medicines to Medicare for negotiating prices with drugmakers starting early next year, the program’s top official said on Friday. President Joe Biden in August signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, allowing the federal Medicare health plan for people age …

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