By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without power on Friday after a winter storm dumped sleet and heavy snow on a wide swath of the central United States this week, and more treacherous weather threatened parts of the Plains and New England. More than 370,000 customers were without …
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(Reuters) – Pennsylvania will spend $25.3 million in federal funds to build a new bridge in Pittsburgh in place of one that collapsed a week ago just hours ahead of scheduled visit by a U.S. President Joe Biden, officials announced on Friday. Construction crews will work as quickly as possible to replace the Fern Hollow …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -Delta Air Lines wants the U.S. government to place passengers convicted of on-board disruptions on a national “no-fly” list that would bar them from future travel on any commercial airline, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Delta Chief Executive Ed Bastian, in a previously unreported letter to U.S. Attorney General …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A government-funded research project released on Friday sheds new light on the upward trend of mass shootings in the United States, finding that the number of Americans dying from mass shooters is on the rise, and most people who commit such acts of violence have a history of …
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By David Shepardson and Ben Klayman (Reuters) -The chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Friday asked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to reverse course and buy a cleaner fleet of next-generation delivery vehicles. The push by Senator Tom Carper comes two days after the White House and Environmental Protection Agency …
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By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) -Nearly 80 scientists and academics, including a former U.S. energy secretary, on Thursday urged Governor Gavin Newsom to delay closure of California’s remaining nuclear plant to comply with state laws on fighting global warming. “The threat of climate change is too real and too pressing to leap before we look,” said …
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By Rich McKay and Jonathan Allen ATLANTA (Reuters) -One of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man chased while running through a mostly white Georgia neighborhood, withdrew his guilty plea to federal hate-crime charges on Friday and will face trial next week alongside his two codefendants. In a brief hearing …
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By Helen Coster and Sheila Dang (Reuters) -During the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Friday, hosts and experts on U.S. network NBC spoke in stark terms about China’s alleged rights violations and Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, directly addressing the geopolitical tensions underpinning the Games. Coverage of the political backdrop comes as human …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Texas man accused by U.S. federal prosecutors of threatening to kill election and government officials during a wave of violent rhetoric by believers in former President Donald Trump’s false claim of voter fraud pleaded not guilty on Friday. Chad Christopher Stark, 54, of Leander, Texas, is accused …
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(Reuters) – A record number of people, totaling more than 3.6 million, were unable to work due to illness during the week that officials gathered data for the benchmark U.S. monthly employment report, which coincided with the peak in infections from COVID-19. Labor Department data released on Friday showed that figure was up from nearly …
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