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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it will not seek the death penalty for accused Mexican drug traffickers Rafael Caro Quintero and Ismael Zambada despite allegations of deep ties to cartel violence. Caro Quintero was extradited to the U.S. in February alongside 28 other suspected cartel members as …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Tuesday from diverting more than $4 billion from a grant program designed to protect communities against natural disasters. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston issued a preliminary injunction preventing the government from spending money allocated to the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday the department has concerns about the use of AI to set personalized airline ticket prices and will investigate if anyone does so. Last week, Delta Air Lines told lawmakers it will not and has not used AI to set prices for individual consumers. “To …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted in 2021 of helping him sexually abuse teenage girls, said on Tuesday she opposed the U.S. government’s bid to release transcripts of proceedings before the grand jury that indicted her.  In a court filing, Maxwell’s …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people in 2023 could have been prevented, a U.S. Coast Guard investigative board found on Tuesday, calling the vessel’s safety culture and operational practices “critically flawed.” The Titan vanished during a descent to the Titanic wreck on a tourist expedition, …

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By David Shepardson (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Department is proposing new rules to speed deployment of drones beyond the visual line of sight of operators, a key change needed to advance commercial uses like package deliveries. “We are going to unleash American drone dominance,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said at a press conference on …

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By Dan Burns (Reuters) -The U.S. trade deficit narrowed in June on a sharp drop in consumer goods imports, and the trade gap with China shrank to its lowest in more than 21 years, the latest evidence of the imprint on global commerce President Donald Trump is making with sweeping tariffs on imported goods. Trump’s …

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By Dan Burns (Reuters) -U.S. services sector activity unexpectedly flatlined in July with little change in orders and a further weakening in employment even as input costs climbed by the most in nearly three years, underscoring the ongoing drag of uncertainty over the Trump administration’s tariff policy on businesses. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) …

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