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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chair of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Oversight and Reform Committee on Tuesday asked Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to detail how the Postal Service (USPS) will spend $3 billion awarded by Congress in August for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. In a letter seen by Reuters, Representative Carolyn Maloney asked DeJoy …

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By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI (Reuters) -Prosecutors portrayed the man who killed 17 people at a Florida high school in 2018 as a calculating and brutal murderer, while his defense attorney pleaded for mercy before jurors begin deliberating on whether he should be sentenced to death. Nikolas Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder …

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(Adds related content) By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A proposed Department of Labor rule defining whether workers for rideshare, retail and delivery companies are misidentified as independent contractors is expected to be released as early as Tuesday, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Details of the new rule have not been made …

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By Linda So and Peter Eisler WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Georgia prosecutor investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election is seeking testimony from a police chaplain featured in a Reuters investigation into efforts to pressure an election worker to falsely admit to voter fraud, court filings show. Fulton County …

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By Nathan Frandino, Christopher Walljasper and Aude Guerrucci FIREBAUGH, Calif. (Reuters) – A lack of rain and snow in central California and restricted water supplies from the Colorado River in the southernmost part of the state have withered summer crops like tomatoes and onions and threatened leafy greens grown in the winter. That has added …

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By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If Republicans win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections, they expect to use a powerful and potentially dangerous tool as leverage in their dealings with Democratic President Joe Biden: The federal debt ceiling. The U.S. Treasury is expected to reach its …

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By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. banks are giving far less to federal candidates this election cycle and increasing the proportion they are handing to Democrats as they rethink their political giving, according to a Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and more than half a dozen industry …

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