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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday named Elizabeth Klein, a lawyer who worked in the Obama and Clinton administrations, to head the bureau that oversees offshore oil, gas and wind development. Klein will take over for the current head of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Amanda Lefton, who …

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By David Morgan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Monday adopted a package of internal rules that give right-wing hardliners more leverage over the chamber’s newly elected Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy. Lawmakers voted 220-213 to approve the legislation. One Republican, Representative Tony Gonzales, joined all 212 Democrats in voting …

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Fire officials issued immediate evacuation orders on Monday for the entire community of Montecito, California, and portions of Santa Barbara and other adjacent towns due to heightened flood and mudslide hazards from a recent string of heavy rainstorms. The evacuation alert, posted by the Montecito Fire Department on Twitter, came five …

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By Erica Urech and Steve Gorman MONTECITO, Calif. (Reuters) -The latest in a string of Pacific storms blamed for at least 12 deaths soaked California on Monday, prompting evacuations of some 25,000 people, including the entire town of Montecito and nearby areas of the Santa Barbara coast, due to heightened flood and mudslide risks. The …

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Police in New Mexico on Monday said they had arrested a man in connection with shootings at the homes and offices of six elected Democratic officials, incidents that have raised concerns of political violence. “There is a suspect in custody, on unrelated charges, related to these incidents,” Albuquerque police Chief Harold …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New Jersey and Ohio said on Monday they were joining other states in banning use of the popular video app TikTok on government-owned and managed devices. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said in addition to banning the short-video app owned by Chinese technology conglomerate ByteDance from state …

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By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who helped to amplify former President Donald Trump’s false claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors seeking documents about payments he received from Trump or his presidential campaign, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday. …

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