By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Voters in five states will decide whether to legalize adult-use marijuana in November’s midterm elections, as 19 other states and the District of Columbia have done. Public support for legalizing the drug has risen in recent years, and President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he was pardoning thousands of people …
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Thirty exotic dancers at a topless bar in Hollywood, California are set to vote over whether to join the Actors Equity Association, and a majority “yes” vote would make them the only organized group of strippers in the United States. Regulators from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Anthony Rapp, who has accused Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey of making an unwanted sexual advance in 1986 when Rapp was 14, testified on Friday at a civil trial that he felt like a “deer in the headlights” when Spacey climbed on top of him at a party. Rapp, who sued Spacey …
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HOUSTON (Reuters) – Two employees were injured in a fire on Wednesday at Marathon Petroleum Corp’s Garyville, Louisiana, refinery, according to a company spokesperson. Marathon spokesperson Jamal Kheiry declined to provide further information on Friday about the employees or the status of operations at the 585,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Garyville refinery, the third largest in the …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said it had reopened the public comment periods for 11 of its rulemaking releases, some of them viewed as controversial, due to a technical glitch that led to a number of comment letters being lost. The majority of the comments affected by the …
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By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House expects the rate of vaccination in its fall booster campaign to pick up over the coming weeks, and its COVID response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha on Friday characterized the initial pace as “a really good start.” The United States in September started rolling out …
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(Reuters) -Around 3.9 million people in the United States received updated COVID-19 booster shots over the past week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. The CDC said a total of 11.5 million Americans had received the shot as of Oct. 5, the first five weeks the booster has been available. This …
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By Nandita Bose NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons threatens to bring about the biggest such risk since the Cuban Missile Crisis, adding Washington was “trying to figure out” Putin’s off-ramp. The White House has said repeatedly that it has seen no indication …
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(Reuters) -Police have arrested a gunman armed with a rifle who opened fire inside a hotel in Dearborn, Michigan, injuring at least one person, after containing him inside the building, authorities said. The incident occurred on Thursday afternoon at a Hampton Inn in downtown Dearborn, outside Detroit, Dearborn Police spokesman Dan Bartok told reporters. Police …
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By Humeyra Pamuk LIMA (Reuters) -The United States is reviewing various options regarding its relationship with Saudi Arabia after Riyadh and other OPEC+ nations agreed this week to large cuts in oil production, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. “As for the relationship (with Riyadh) going forward, we’re reviewing a number of response …
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