(Reuters) -U.S. consumers can expect to pay up to 28% more to heat their homes this winter than last year due to surging fuel costs and slightly colder weather, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projected in its winter fuels outlook on Wednesday. Nearly half of U.S. households rely on natural gas for heat, with …
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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York’s new gun law will remain in effect for now after a federal appeals court on Wednesday agreed to temporarily reverse a lower court’s order blocking the law’s central provisions while a legal challenge by a gun-owners’ rights group proceeds. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in …
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(Reuters) – The United Steelworkers (USW) union and Cleveland-Cliffs Inc on Wednesday said that 12,000 union-represented employees had ratified a new, four-year labor contract that offers employees better pay and insurance benefits. USW International President Tom Conway said in a statement that the steel producer’s commitment to partner with USW includes a plan to invest …
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By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Los Angeles city councilwoman day took a leave of absence from her post on Tuesday as a furor raged around her and two colleagues over racist comments she was heard making on an audiotape of their private conversation. Democrat Nury Martinez, who resigned her leadership post a …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday unveiled a proposal that would make it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors, potentially upending the gig economy and other industries that rely heavily on contract labor. The line between when a worker is considered a company’s employee, who is …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Baltimore prosecutors on Tuesday dismissed their case against a man found guilty of the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend in a case that drew national attention after the podcast “Serial” raised doubts about his guilt. Adnan Syed, 42, served more than 20 years in prison for the slaying of Hae Min …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether fetuses are entitled to constitutional rights in light of its June ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide, steering clear for now of another front in America’s culture wars. The justices turned away an appeal …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – San Antonio police on Tuesday arrested one of their own recently fired officers and charged him with two counts of aggravated assault by a public official for shooting an unarmed 17-year-old who was eating in a fast-food parking lot. Police body-camera video of the Oct. 2 shooting went viral on …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is considering allowing some Venezuelans seeking humanitarian entry into the United States to apply from Venezuela or a third country to reduce illegal border crossings, two U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said on Tuesday. The program, if implemented, would resemble a similar effort announced …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview released on Tuesday that he did not think there would be a recession, but that if it happened it would only be “very slight.” “I don’t think there will be a recession,” he told CNN. “If it is, it’ll be a very slight recession. That …
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