By Kate Fishman MENDOCINO, Calif. (Reuters) – Harbormaster Anna Neumann dashed from vessel to vessel, business to business at the port she manages near the mouth of northern California’s Noyo River, ensuring all was secure as storms bringing waves as high as a three-story building pummeled the state. “You prep as much as you can, …
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By Andrea Shalal and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden said on Thursday in his first major speech on border security. At the same time, the United States will allow up to 30,000 …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said on Thursday they are investigating possible links between four shootings over the past month directed at the homes or place of business of two state senators and two county commissioners. Nobody was injured in the four shootings, the latest of which occurred shortly before …
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – The estate of a U.S. Capitol Police officer who died a day after the Jan. 6, 2021, riots sued former President Donald Trump for wrongful death on Thursday, claiming that he incited his supporters to commit violence that day. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington against …
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By Gabriella Borter (Reuters) -South Carolina’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a state law banning abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy was unconstitutional because it violated a right to privacy, handing a major win to abortion rights supporters in the U.S. South. Hours later, Idaho’s Supreme Court found that the constitution in that …
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By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which enforces antitrust law, proposed a rule that would ban companies from requiring workers to sign noncompete provisions as well as some training repayment agreements, which companies use to keep workers from leaving for better jobs, the agency said on Thursday. Noncompete agreements “block workers …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday launched a virtual program aimed at making antiviral treatments for COVID-19 available at home for those who test positive. Local and state officials from Berks County in Pennsylvania will be the first to pilot the program, known as Home Test to Treat, later this …
By Brendan O’Brien and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A woman who lived at the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death told investigators she heard someone crying in one of the victim’s bedrooms on the night of the murders – and then watched as a masked man walked past her and out …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Albert Gore III, a former Tesla public policy employee, has been named executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA), the Washington-based group said on Wednesday. Congress in 2021 approved $5 billion for EV charging stations and in August passed new electric vehicle tax credits. “Lots of work …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A woman in Iowa believed to be the oldest living person in the United States, having lived through historic events ranging from the two world wars and the Great Depression to the Spanish flu and the COVID-19 pandemic, has passed away at age 115. Bessie Hendricks died on Tuesday at …
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