(Reuters) – Seattle educators will vote on Tuesday on an agreement with Seattle Public Schools (SPS) to end a strike over pay, staffing and mental health support, the school system said. Almost 95% of the union, which groups more than 6,000 education workers in the state of Washington, voted this month to go on strike, …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A growing number of Democrats in the U.S. House oppose fellow party member Senator Joe Manchin’s energy-permitting bill that speeds fossil fuel projects including a natural gas pipeline in his state of West Virginia. U.S. Representative Raul Griljalva said on Monday that 77 Democrats in the House have signed a …
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(Reuters) – The Los Angeles Department of Public Health said on Monday it had confirmed the area’s first death due to monkeypox, saying the individual was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized. The department said it had made the determination that the death in Los Angeles County was due to monkeypox together with the U.S. …
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By David Shepardson and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Biden administration urged railroads and unions to reach a deal to avoid a railroad work stoppage, saying on Monday it would pose “an unacceptable outcome” to the U.S. economy that could cost $2 billion a day. Railroads, including Union Pacific, Berkshire Hathaway’s BNSF, CSX, and …
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By Abhijith Ganapavaram and Mike Stone (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense will need an extra $42 billion in the next fiscal year to make up for a shortfall in how much it can buy as rising prices eat in to its procurement budget, a defense industry group said in a report coming out …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak will cancel trips on three long-distance routes starting Tuesday because of a potential freight rail strike later this week, and could be forced to cancel other trains. Amtrak said it will begin suspending service for the Southwest Chief route from Chicago to Los Angeles, the …
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By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York judge overseeing a tax fraud case against the Trump Organization on Monday rejected any effort to delay next month’s trial, acknowledging concern that former President Donald Trump’s company might be trying to “stall” the criminal case. At a pre-trial hearing in a New York state …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump on Monday objected in a court filing to the two candidates the U.S. Justice Department has put forward to be an independent arbiter, called a special master, to examine the contents of classified documents seized by the FBI from his Florida estate last month. (Reporting by Eric Beech; …
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By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) – Legendary street and fashion photographer William Klein has died in Paris, aged 96, his son said in a statement to French news agency AFP on Monday. Klein, a New York-born American who made his reputation shooting scenes of urban life in the world’s biggest cities, studied painting with …
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(Reuters) – Some 15,000 nurses in Minnesota walked off the job on Monday to protest hospital understaffing that their union says has harmed patient care and exhausted health workers as they negotiate a new contract with hospital executives. The strike, slated to last three days and described by the Minnesota Nurses Association as one of …
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