By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for California to enforce a voter-approved ban in America’s most-populous state on flavored tobacco products, rejecting R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s bid to block it on the grounds that the policy conflicted with federal law. The justices denied the emergency request by R.J. …
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By Kanishka Singh and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The body of well-known U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who died suddenly on Friday after collapsing while covering a match at the World Cup in Qatar, has arrived in the United States, the State Department said on Monday. “American journalist Grant Wahl has been returned to …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture will distribute an additional $325 million in funding for projects tailored to smaller-scale farmers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, taking its total annual investment in climate-friendly farming to more than $3 billion, the agency announced Monday. USDA’s efforts are part of a broader Biden …
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By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. hate crime incidents dropped in 2021 from a two-decade high in 2020, according to FBI data released on Monday, but the agency acknowledged that the figures exclude totals from more than one-third of the country’s law enforcement agencies. Overall, more than 7,200 hate crimes were reported in …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal prosecutor on Monday told a court that four members of the far-right Oath Keepers should be found guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to use force to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in order to keep …
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By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – A Black-owned construction business on Monday dismantled and removed the last public Confederate statue on display in Richmond, Virginia, the city that served as the capital of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. The memorial to Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate general killed in battle days before the war …
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By Kanishka Singh and Sneha Bhowmik (Reuters) -Defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake sued Arizona elections officials on Friday to challenge the counting and certification of the November electoral contest and ask to be declared the winner despite a lack of evidence of voter fraud. The suit targets Lake’s Democratic opponent, Governor-elect Katie Hobbs, currently …
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By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Biden administration officials will meet early Monday to discuss next steps in securing the release of former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who was jailed in Russia in 2020 on spying charges, President Joe Biden’s top hostage negotiator said on Sunday. Hostage affairs envoy Roger Carstens told …
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By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural mission of the U.S. agency’s new Artemis lunar program 50 years to the day after Apollo’s final moon landing. …
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(Reuters) – Canada’s TC Energy said on Sunday it has not yet determined the cause of the Keystone oil pipeline leak last week in the United States, while also not giving a timeline as to when the pipeline will resume operation. TC shut the pipeline after more than 14,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into …
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