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By Maria Alejandra Cardona and Daniel Trotta MIAMI (Reuters) – So many Florida teachers have abandoned their profession in recent years that the state is inviting military veterans with no prior teaching experience to lead classrooms while they earn education credentials. Elsewhere across the United States as school resumed this August and September, districts have …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met with the governors of six states in the U.S. Northeast on Thursday to talk about their concerns about soaring fuel costs heading into winter, the Department of Energy said. The meeting came after governors, including Charles Baker of Massachusetts, Janet Mills of Maine and …

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(Reuters) -Governor Kathy Hochul said on Thursday that the New York State Public Service Commission (NYSPSC) has begun to enact a Utility Thermal Energy Network and Jobs Act in an effort to decarbonise buildings across the state. Buildings account for 32% of overall emissions in New York, Hochul stated in the press release, and the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent two planeloads of migrants to the posh vacation island of Martha’s Vineyard this week, to protest the Biden administration’s immigration policies. It’s the latest provocation by DeSantis, a Republican who is seeking re-election as governor in November and is considered a potential 2024 presidential candidate. POLITICAL RISE DeSantis, …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – A Texas state agency has decided against recommending that the governor grant a posthumous pardon to George Floyd for a 2004 drug conviction, in a reversal of a decision made last year. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles board, in a letter sent on Thursday to the Harris County …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chair of a subcommittee overseeing space issues and a top Republican asked the Federal Aviation Administration for a briefing on the investigation into the booster failure on Monday by Blue Origin’s New Shepard-23. The rocket from Jeff Bezos’ space company failed mid-flight shortly after liftoff, aborting its cargo capsule …

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By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. freight railways and unions representing 115,000 workers may have reached a deal to avert a damaging shutdown that could have battered the U.S. economy, but the industry isn’t clear of that danger yet. Leaders of the 12 unions involved in the talks must now sell agreements to …

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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Donations for an Iowa teenager poured in on Thursday, doubling the $150,000 amount a court ordered her to pay the family of a man whom she killed after he allegedly sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions. As of Thursday morning, a GoFundMe fundraiser for Pieper Lewis, 17, had raised more …

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