By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job openings dropped to a 3-1/2-year low in July, suggesting the labor market was losing steam, but the reduction on its own is probably not enough to warrant a half-percentage-point interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve this month. The larger-than-expected decline in unfilled jobs shown in the …
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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employment increased less than expected in August, but a drop in the jobless rate to 4.2% suggested the labor market was not falling off the cliff to warrant a half-point interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve this month. The closely watched employment report from the Labor Department …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – California and Hawaii can enforce bans on carrying guns in some public locations including bars and parks, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, partly reversing lower court orders blocking the bans. A unanimous panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that both states can …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A former mafia hitman who was already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years in custody on Friday for the killing of notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger in his prison cell in 2018. Fotios “Freddy” Geas, 57, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh in Clarksburg, …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign and the Democratic Party raised $361 million in August, leaving her with a clear cash advantage over Republican rival Donald Trump with two months to go before Election Day, the campaign said on Friday. It said the August haul left Harris with $404 million in …
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By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) – Georgia state officials on Thursday arrested the father of the 14-year-old suspected in a school shooting that killed four people and wounded nine others on Wednesday, saying the father knowingly allowed his son to have the murder weapon. Colin Gray, 54, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, …
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By Kanishka Singh and Liya Cui (Reuters) – The four people killed in the Georgia school mass shooting on Wednesday included two boys aged 14, remembered as funny, kind and positive, along with two teachers, both of whom taught mathematics and one who was also a football coach. Mason Schermerhorn, 14, had started high school …
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By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will battle each other next week in their first televised debate, a high-stakes clash that could give the winner an advantage in the final sprint to Election Day. For Harris, the square-off in Philadelphia on Tuesday is an opportunity to lay out …
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By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (Reuters) -The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has accepted the rules of next week’s debate against Republican Donald Trump, including microphones being muted when it is not a candidate’s turn to speak, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The debate would …
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By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a new law requiring retailers to boost safety protections for store workers, including requiring major chains to add panic buttons in all New York State locations. Unions representing retail workers had pushed for the new law, known as the Retail …
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