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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill on Tuesday to provide the Postal Service (USPS) with about $50 billion in financial relief over a decade and requiring future retirees to enroll in a government health insurance plan. The House voted 342-92 for what House Oversight Committee chair Carolyn …

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By Rami Ayyub (Reuters) -The cousin of Amir Locke, a young Black man who was shot dead by Minneapolis police executing a “no-knock” search warrant last week, has been arrested in a homicide probe that led officers to conduct the fatal raid, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday. Police in neighboring Saint Paul said a …

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By Jonathan Stempel and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former New York Times editorial page editor was put on the defensive on Tuesday in Sarah Palin’s defamation trial against the newspaper over a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor to an earlier mass shooting in Arizona. …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the Republican National Committee should not be singling out party members, after it censured U.S. Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for joining Congress’ investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Capitol Hill. (Reporting by David Morgan; editing by Kanishka Singh)

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -U.S. Secret Service agents rushed Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, to safety on Tuesday while students and administrators evacuated after a bomb threat to a Washington school celebrating a Black History Month event, officials said. Emhoff was at Dunbar High School, the first high school for Black …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – Three female graduate students at Harvard University filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the Ivy League school of ignoring for years the sexual harassment of students by a professor who they said threatened their academic careers if they reported him. The students filed the lawsuit in federal court in …

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By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -A mediator reported on Tuesday that members of the Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma and U.S. states opposed to the OxyContin-maker’s bankruptcy exit plan are “even closer” to a settlement over claims that the company fueled a U.S. opioid epidemic. The mediator asked a bankruptcy judge to extend the deadline …

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