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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook filed a lawsuit on Thursday claiming President Donald Trump has no power to remove her from office, setting up a legal battle that could challenge long-established norms for the U.S. central bank’s independence. The lawsuit said Trump violated a federal law allowing him to remove a …

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By Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Logs and fallen trees charred by the devastating Eaton wildfire in January that scorched more than 14,000 acres (57 square km) east of Los Angeles are being repurposed to rebuild neighborhoods destroyed by the blaze. Los Angeles-based Angel City Lumber, a private business, has launched the Altadena Reciprocity Project …

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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Hundreds of people marched on Wall Street to campaign for an array of issues, including economic justice, and diversity and inclusion, in downtown New York on Thursday.  “We’re coming to Wall Street instead of Washington this year,” said Reverend Al Sharpton, one of the event’s organizers. He accused Wall Street of benefiting …

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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal land conservation projects around southern Idaho’s rivers and lakes, famous for rainbow trout and smallmouth bass, are in limbo along with dozens of conservation projects nationwide, according to advocates, who worry they may not be completed by President Donald Trump’s administration this year. The delays — caused by the …

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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -A prominent Washington lawyer who launched a new firm this year to represent officials targeted by President Donald Trump is quickly gaining new clients, including Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez. Abbe Lowell, whose clientele includes Hunter Biden and New York …

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(Corrects date of assassination of Minnesota’s house speaker to June, not May, in last paragraph) MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) -An assailant armed with three guns fired through stained-glass windows into a Catholic church where parish school students were attending Mass on Wednesday, killing two children and wounding 17 other people, officials said. The shooting ended when the …

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By Siddhi Mahatole (Reuters) -Outlook Therapeutics said on Thursday the U.S. health regulator has again declined to approve its experimental eye drug, citing a lack of substantial evidence of effectiveness and sending its shares plunging 50% to a record low. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, in its so-called “complete response letter”, recommended the company …

US FDA declines to approve Outlook Therapeutics’ eye disease drug, shares plummet Read More »