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Forecasters predict above-average 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

(Reuters) -Colorado State University forecasters said on Thursday the upcoming 2025 hurricane season across the Atlantic basin will be above average, with 17 named tropical storms, including nine hurricanes, of which four are predicted to be major. Warm sea surface temperatures will again fuel the storms in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean, the researchers of …

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‘Fair likelihood’ Trump administration violated court order not to deport Venezuelans, judge says

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

By Luc Cohen and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -There is a “fair likelihood” the Trump administration violated a court order temporarily blocking the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a rarely invoked 18th-century law, a U.S. judge said on Thursday. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg made the comment at a hearing in Washington to …

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Elon Musk can stay ‘as long as he likes’ but will want to get back to businesses, says Trump

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

By Trevor Hunnicutt ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – President Donald Trump gave billionaire adviser Elon Musk a fresh endorsement on Thursday amid criticism of Musk’s government reduction project and said he can stay “as long as he likes” but will eventually return to his businesses. “Elon is fantastic,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force …

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Tom Cruise remembers ‘Top Gun’ co-star Val Kilmer

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Actor Tom Cruise paid tribute to his late “Top Gun” co-star, Val Kilmer, on Thursday, remembering him as a talented actor who loved movies. Cruise opened his appearance at the CinemaCon industry convention in Las Vegas with remarks about his “dear friend” Kilmer, who died on Tuesday at age 65. “I …

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Several companies must face lawsuit over tainted baby food, US judge rules

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A U.S. judge said several companies including Walmart, Beech-Nut and Gerber must face a nationwide lawsuit claiming that toxic heavy metals contaminated their baby food, causing brain and neurodevelopmental damage to children who ate it. In a decision on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said parents can try to …

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Online feed of event with Fed’s Cook hit with porn, Nazi images

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – An internet stream of a speech at a university by Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook was hacked on Thursday as racist remarks, Nazi symbols and pornographic images peppered the viewing screen, prompting online access to be cut off. Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Fed’s Board …

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U.S. asks Mexico for USMCA review of labor rights at auto plant

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

(Reuters) -The U.S. on Wednesday asked Mexico to review whether workers at an Aludyne Automotive’s auto parts factory are being denied labor rights, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in a statement on Thursday. The office said it made the request under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement regarding Aludyne Automotive’s facility in Mexico City, …

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Republican-led states demand 20 law firms disclose DEI practices

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

By Sara Merken (Reuters) – Attorneys general from 12 Republican-led U.S. states sent letters on Thursday to 20 major law firms demanding information about their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) employment practices, building on a similar request to the same firms by the U.S. agency that enforces federal laws banning workplace discrimination. Andrea Lucas, acting …

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US appeals court pauses order reversing Trump actions at CFPB

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday temporarily paused a lower court order from last week that had handed a major victory to government workers and consumer advocates fighting President Donald Trump’s attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Even so, judges at the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia …

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Cantor analysts double down on Kennedy criticism as FDA jobs cuts begin

3 Apr 2025 3 Apr 2025

(Reuters) – Cantor Fitzgerald analysts renewed their criticism of U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, saying the layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration pose a risk to public safety and the agency could be “coming apart at the seams”. The Trump administration on Tuesday began laying off 10,000 staffers at US …

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