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(Reuters) – More than 2.4 million homes and businesses were without power early on Thursday in Florida after being hit by Hurricane Ian, according to local power companies. Some utilities have started to restore customers now that the storm has passed southern Florida even though the number of outages continues to increase as the storm …

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By Jacqueline Thomsen and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) – Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are resisting a federal judge’s instruction to submit a sworn declaration on whether they believe the government’s list of property taken from Trump’s Florida estate is accurate. According to a letter publicly filed by Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday, the former …

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By Sharon Bernstein and Rich McKay (Reuters) – Outside the window of Susan Flack’s darkened condominium in Naples, Florida, on Wednesday, trees bent in the wind and a portable toilet floated by on rising floodwaters. Flack, one of thousands who decided to flout official evacuation orders and ride out Hurricane Ian, was not worried about …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday it will continue providing a live audio feed of its arguments during its new term that begins on Oct. 3, maintaining a feature it adopted in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the closure of its courtroom. The top U.S. judicial body, faulted …

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(Reuters) – President Joe Biden directed his economic team on Monday to stay in touch with allies and key market players on developments in global financial and energy markets and to brief him regularly as conditions evolve, the White House said. After a meeting between Biden and his administration’s top economic officials, the White House …

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By Timothy Gardner and Nichola Groom WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Environmental groups and some fellow Democratic lawmakers had pilloried U.S. Senator Joe Manchin’s bill to speed energy permitting as a handout to fossil fuel companies, but clean energy advocates said the bill’s failure would hinder the rapid expansion renewable power needs to combat climate change. …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden publicly sought out Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Congresswoman who died in a car accident in August, during a conference on hunger on Wednesday, seeming to forget that she had passed away. Biden thanked other conference organizers, then asked: “Jackie are you here? Where’s Jackie?” Walorski, a Republican, was one …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote late Wednesday on a bill that would update fees companies pay for merger reviews and strengthen state attorneys general in antitrust fights, according to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s office. The bill combines measures introduced by Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat, and Representative Ken …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday edged toward passage of a temporary government funding bill to avert a partial government shutdown, with leaders of both parties signaling support for the measure and lawmakers eager to return to the campaign trail. “With cooperation from our Republican colleagues, the Senate can finish its work of keeping …

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