BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard University on Thursday named Claudine Gay, the school’s dean of Faculty Arts and Sciences, as its 30th president, making her the first Black person and only second woman to hold the job. Gay, who joined Harvard as a professor of government in 2006, succeeds Lawrence Bacow as president of the prestigious …
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(Reuters) -A sprawling winter storm was expected to unleash ice, snow and strong winds across the U.S. Northeast on Thursday after spawning dozens of tornadoes that killed three people and left behind a trail of destruction in the South. A woman was killed when a tornado destroyed her house west of New Orleans, while a …
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(Reuters) – The California Energy Commission on Wednesday approved a $2.9 billion investment plan to accelerate the state’s 2025 electric vehicle (EV) charging and hydrogen refueling goals. The investment will result in 90,000 new EV chargers across the state, more than double the 80,000 chargers already installed, the energy commission said. Combined with funding from …
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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. households can order four free at-home COVID-19 tests from the government website COVIDTests.gov beginning on Thursday as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle coronavirus infections over the winter. The White House said it would use existing funding to pay for the tests since it has been unsuccessful …
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By Shawana Alleyne-Morris and Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The annual number of new Parkinson’s disease diagnoses in the United States is likely 50% higher than estimated, based on a broad analysis of insurance claims and population growth detailed in a study published on Thursday that could help increase funding and care for the disabling illness. …
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(Reuters) -A gunman wounded two people, including a woman with whom he had a “relationship,” in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania medical clinic on Thursday before killing himself, local police said. The suspect came to the medical office in the town of Wyomissing to confront the woman, shooting her in either the neck or …
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By Makini Brice and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a stopgap one-week funding bill, a move intended to give lawmakers more time to pass a bill to fully fund the federal government through its fiscal year on Sept. 30, 2023. The stopgap measure, known as a “continuing …
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By Nathan Layne NEWTOWN, Conn. (Reuters) -Ten years after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, residents of the Connecticut town where it took place marked Wednesday’s anniversary by attending vigils, paying respects at a new memorial and reflecting in private with loved ones. The rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate late on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill to bar federal employees from using Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok on government-owned devices. The bill must still be approved by the U.S. House of Representatives before going to President Joe Biden for approval. The House of Representatives …
By Jose Luis Gonzalez, Jackie Botts and Daina Beth Solomon CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Many of the hundreds of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso this week were part of a group kidnapped in Mexico as they made their way to the United States, according to nine migrants …
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