By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chair of the U.S. House panel overseeing the Postal Service (USPS) asked the agency to turn over documents and answer questions on its plans to buy mostly gas-powered next-generation delivery vehicles as critics question the move over costs and the environmental impact. House Oversight and Reform Committee chair …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – The state of Massachusetts on Thursday agreed to pay $56 million to resolve a lawsuit by families of veterans who contracted COVID-19 during an outbreak at a veterans’ care center that killed 84 people early in the pandemic. The proposed settlement would resolve a pending federal class action lawsuit …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A former eBay Inc security executive pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in a campaign to harass a Massachusetts couple who ran an online newsletter that involved sending them disturbing home deliveries like cockroaches and a funeral wreath. David Harville, the company’s former director of global resiliency, pleaded guilty …
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(Reuters) -Four Democratic lawmakers on Thursday asked the CEOs of YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc to archive content that could be used as evidence of suspected Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Ukraine and the West say Russian troops have committed war crimes in its 11-week invasion of its neighbor, in which …
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(Reuters) – Naomi Judd, matriarch of the country music duo the Judds, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound a day before being inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, her family said on Thursday. Judd, 76, suffered from mental illness, a disease that tells victims “you are not loved, you are not enough, that …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – In the days after a draft leaked showing the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade and a national right to abortion, the left-wing group MoveOn doubled its weekly fundraising. A Michigan effort to place abortion rights on the ballot gained more than 13,000 new volunteer …
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By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration has drafted an executive order that would give the Department of Justice vast powers to stop foreign adversaries like China accessing Americans’ personal data, according to a person familiar with the matter and excerpts seen by Reuters. The proposal, which is being reviewed …
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(Reuters) -Arizona carried out its first execution since 2014 on Wednesday, putting to death a prisoner convicted of killing a student more than four decades ago, state prison officials said. Clarence Wayne Dixon, convicted of fatally stabbing and strangling Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin in 1978, was put to death by lethal injection at …
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By Maria Caspani NEW YORK (Reuters) -The United States has now recorded more than 1 million COVID-19 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, crossing a once-unthinkable milestone about two years after the first cases upended everyday life and quickly transformed it. The 1 million mark is a stark reminder of the staggering grief and loss …
By Andrew Hay BLACK LAKE, N.M. (Reuters) -Firefighters in northern New Mexico labored under an apocalyptic orange sky, and vehicles streamed out of the ski area of Angel Fire on Wednesday as wind-driven flames from the state’s second-largest blaze on record roared closer to the mountain resort. With winds gusting beyond 50 mph (80 kmh) …
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