(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court has extended a block on President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loans, a court filing on Monday showed. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction barring the U.S. Department of Education from erasing student loan debt based on …
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By Danielle Broadway (Reuters) – Comedian Jay Leno was taken to Grossman Burn Center after his face was burned in his Los Angeles garage when one of his cars burst into flames. The left side of former “The Tonight Show” host’s face was burned, but Leno’s eye and ear were not severely damaged. Leno confirmed …
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By Mike Blake and Daniel Trotta SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Thousands of academic workers went on strike at University of California campuses throughout the state on Monday, forming picket lines, affecting classes and staging noisy protests to demand better wages for teaching assistants and others. Some 48,000 academic workers represented by the United Auto Workers …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association has been sued by three longtime referees who say the league fired them this year after they refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 over religious objections. In a complaint filed on Saturday in Manhattan federal court, Kenny Mauer, Mark Ayotte and Jason Phillips said …
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By Brendan O’Brien and Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – A suspect in a shooting at the University of Virginia that left three members of the University of Virginia football team dead was in custody on Monday, hours after he allegedly opened fire on a bus full of students returning from a field trip. University police said …
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by StarKist Co, owned by South Korea’s Dongwon Industries, to avoid a lawsuit by tuna buyers accusing it of fixing prices. The justices turned away StarKist’s appeal of a lower court’s decision that let three groups of tuna purchasers receive …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department in a court filing unsealed on Monday accused Donald Trump’s lawyers of “gamesmanship” for arguing that some of the documents seized by the FBI from the former president’s Florida estate should be kept out of a criminal investigation because they are …
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By David Lawder NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she hopes President Joe Biden’s meeting on Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping leads to increased engagement on macroeconomic issues between the world’s two largest economies. Yellen said the purpose of the meeting was to stabilize the U.S.-China relationship and provide …
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday announced a number of investments in Indonesia spanning areas like climate and food security, including a $2.5 billion agreement between ExxonMobil and state-owned energy company Pertamina on carbon capture. ExxonMobil and Pertamina’s agreement will further assess development of a regional carbon capture and sequestration …
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(Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold talks with U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday in person for the first time since Biden took office in 2021, on the sidelines of the annual Group of 20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali. Their previous five exchanges were conducted either by phone or video …
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