By Christine Kiernan NEW YORK (Reuters) – Winter is well under way in New York City and the holiday celebrations are fading into the distance – but there has still not been a proper snowfall. Central Park is green. The sun is out. And ducks frolic in ice-free ponds. Although an epic blizzard hit western …
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By Alexandra Ulmer, Tim Reid and Sharon Bernstein HALF MOON BAY/MONTEREY PARK, California (Reuters) – America was supposed to be a place of safety for Jose Romero when he arrived some two years ago to work on a California farm alongside other immigrants from Mexico and China. Romero was killed on Monday, shot dead by …
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(Reuters) -Back-to-back mass shootings in California have claimed the lives of people who loved to dance at a studio in Monterey Park and farm workers in the coastal community of Half Moon Bay. MONTEREY PARK VICTIMS Eleven people were killed when a 72-year-old gunman opened fire late Saturday during a celebration of the Lunar New …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rocket Lab launched its first mission from American soil on Tuesday, kicking off an expansion of the company’s launch business that adds to a surge in private rocket activity at U.S. space ports. The Long Beach, California-based company’s workhorse Electron rocket, an expendable launcher standing 40 feet (12 meters) tall, …
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By Diane Bartz and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. senators slammed Live Nation Entertainment’s lack of transparency and inability to block bot purchases of tickets on Tuesday, in a hearing called after a major fiasco involving ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s upcoming concert tour. Live Nation Entertainment Inc subsidiary Ticketmaster, which has been unpopular …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mike Pence found documents marked classified at his Indiana home this month which were taken by the FBI, a lawyer for the former Vice President said in letters to the National Archives. Here’s how the situation unfolded, according to the letters: Jan. 16: After seeing reports that President Joe Biden had classified …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Documents marked as classified were discovered at former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, his attorney said in letters seen by Reuters on Tuesday. The attorney, Greg Jacob, sent a letter to the National Archives on …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Any agreement to address the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever default by Washington will have to come from President Joe Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the top Senate Republican said on Tuesday. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has played an integral role in debt ceiling negotiations …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The incoming U.S. ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy has held a meeting on Tuesday with Moscow’s top envoy in Washington DC Anatoly Antonov, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said. Tracy, a veteran U.S. career diplomat, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December. She will depart …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the future, the space agency’s chief said on Tuesday. NASA will partner with the U.S. military’s research …
