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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – Mothers and children who receive benefits from a U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition program would be able to spend more money on a wider range of groceries under proposed changes the USDA introduced on Thursday. The USDA proposed expanding the list of groceries participants in the Women, Infants, and Children …

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By Karen Sloan (Reuters) – The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law on Thursday joined the law schools at Yale and Harvard in withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report’s influential law school rankings. Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky said in a message to students that the rankings penalize schools whose graduates pursue public …

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(Reuters) -A large portion of North America is at risk of insufficient electricity supplies during peak winter conditions, the organization responsible for the reliability of the U.S. power grids said on Thursday. Those reliability concerns stem from higher peak demand projections, generator retirements, generator vulnerability to extreme weather and fuel supply and natural gas infrastructure …

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By Lindsay DeDario and Rich McKay BUFFALO, N.Y. (Reuters) -Up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) of lake-effect snow could bury parts of Western New York and other states by the end of the weekend, forecasters said on Thursday, paralyzing the city of Buffalo and other areas downwind of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Snow could …

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By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -With a dash of launch-pad heroics and 8.8 million pounds (4 million kg) of thrust, NASA’s colossal new rocket soared into space for the first time early on Wednesday, sending a next-generation capsule on a crewless voyage around the moon and back 50 years after …

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(Reuters) -Australian Dairy Nutritionals Group said on Thursday its application for accelerated approval to vend the dairy firm’s branded infant formula in the United States has not been accepted by the country’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Antipodean dairy companies have been queuing up for necessary approvals since May after the United States faced a …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday disputed Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s comment that missiles that landed in Poland were not of Ukranian origin. “That’s not the evidence,” Biden told reporters at the White House upon returning from a trip to Asia. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Martin Petty)

DUBAI (Reuters) -An attack on a tanker off the coast of Oman on Tuesday was carried out by an Iranian-made drone, U.S. Central Command said in a statement, adding that a multilateral maritime operation led by a British Royal Navy frigate had responded to the area. An Israeli official had blamed Iran for the strike …

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By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Karen Bass, a Democratic U.S. congresswoman, was projected on Wednesday to beat Rick Caruso in the race for Los Angeles mayor, becoming the first woman to lead the nation’s second-largest city. Bass, 69, was leading real estate developer Caruso by a margin of 53.1% to 46.9% on Wednesday evening …

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