By Trevor Hunnicutt, Lisandra Paraguassu and Matt Spetalnick LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -President Joe Biden urged top U.S. business executives on Thursday to help bolster his plan for an environmentally-friendly economic partnership with Latin America on the first full day of a regional summit riven by tensions over the guest list. Speaking at a U.S. Chamber …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI arrested Republican Ryan Kelley, a candidate for Michigan governor, on Thursday for misdemeanor charges in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. An FBI agent’s sworn statement said Kelley, 40, was captured on video standing in a crowd of …
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By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – U.S. renewable energy developers have delayed or scrapped several big battery projects meant to store electrical power on the grid in recent months, scuttling plans to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar energy. At least a dozen storage projects meant to support growing renewable energy supplies have been postponed, …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump and two of his adult children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, have agreed to testify starting July 15 in a New York state civil investigation into the former U.S. president’s business practices. The Trumps’ testimony could last through the following week, according to an agreement with state Attorney General …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw Los Angeles (Reuters) – U.S President Joe Biden on Wednesday blamed the lack of any progress on gun safety on intimidation by the gun lobby, and he called on voters to make it a deciding issue come November during his first in-person appearance on a late-night talk show. Biden …
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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An 11-year-old survivor of last month’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday how she desperately acted to save her own life after the gunman shot a friend next to her, saying, “I got the blood and put it all over me.” Miah Cerrillo, 11, …
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By Liz Hampton, Sabrina Valle and Scott DiSavino HOUSTON (Reuters) -Freeport LNG, operator of one of the largest U.S. export plants producing liquefied natural gas (LNG), will shut for at least three weeks following an explosion at its Texas Gulf Coast facility. The fire roiled U.S. natural gas markets on Wednesday and the impact is …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday spoke by phone with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido and expressed U.S. support for restarting negotiations between President Nicolas Maduro’s government and the opposition, the White House said. Speaking from Air Force One en route to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, Biden reaffirmed that …
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By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A California man armed with a handgun who planned to kill Brett Kavanaugh was charged with attempted murder on Wednesday after being arrested near the U.S. Supreme Court justice’s Maryland home, voicing dismay about expected rulings curtailing abortion access and expanding gun rights, authorities said. The man, identified as 26-year-old …
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(Reuters) – Harvard President Lawrence Bacow said on Wednesday that he would leave his post in June 2023 after helping shepherd the nation’s oldest university through the COVID pandemic. Bacow, 70, did not give a reason for his decision to step down but said he and his wife, Adele, would be spending more time with …
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