By David Shepardson (Reuters) -New York’s congestion pricing has led to 1 million total fewer vehicles entering the busiest part of Manhattan and cut commuting times since the program began on Jan. 5, a transit agency said on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said inbound trips times on all Hudson and East River crossings are …
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to health officials. As of Jan. 24, 67 active cases of tuberculosis, or TB, had been reported in …
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By Tim Reid, Timothy Gardner and Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two of America’s biggest federal worker unions told members on Wednesday not to trust a Trump administration offer to 2 million government employees to quit with eight months pay, while many civil servants expressed anger and defiance over the move. In advice to its …
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By David Morgan MIAMI (Reuters) – A three-day meeting of U.S. House Republicans, meant to jumpstart President Donald Trump’s $4 trillion tax cut agenda, ended on Wednesday without a deal as party fiscal hawks refused to move ahead unless the plan reduced the $1.8 trillion federal deficit. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson called the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said a temporary freeze on certain discretionary spending announced by his administration a day earlier was meant to give time to the government to identify instances of improper spending. “As was explicitly stated, this in no way affected Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or other entitlements that …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday moved to end the criminal case against two associates of President Donald Trump for allegedly helping to obstruct a probe into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, a court filing showed. The pair, Trump’s personal valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos De Oliveira, did not object …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA affirmed on Wednesday a plan it set last year to work with Elon Musk’s SpaceX in returning two astronauts from the International Space Station, saying it will do so “as soon as practical,” the day after President Donald Trump suggested he wants a quicker return for the crew. On …
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By Luc Cohen and Mike Spector NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Wednesday formally notified a New York state court of Trump’s intent to appeal his criminal conviction on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star. In the notice, Trump’s lawyers said they would appeal both the jury’s …
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(Reuters) -The Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a sweeping directive to pause federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, a White House official said, just shortly before it was set to appear in court for a second straight day to defend the policy. The decision to rescind the Office of Management and Budget’s Monday directive …
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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – By the time Nicolas Talbott, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army reserve, checked on the incoming texts buzzing on his smart watch, he found dozens of messages waiting for him. Talbott, a transgender man who took his oath of enlistment in March, instantly knew what …
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