(Reuters) -Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Semafor news website reported, citing a source familiar with the matter. Meta and Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The U.S. tech giant on Friday said it is ending its diversity, equity, and …
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By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -NFL teams and the league’s charitable arm are donating a combined $5 million to support those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, the NFL said on Friday, as the region reels from the devastating infernos. Multiple fires have killed 10 people so far and razed thousands of homes, throwing …
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By Chad Terhune PASADENA, California (Reuters) -Thousands of jubilant fans packed Southern California’s Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day for a college football playoff game. Nine days later, hundreds of firefighters and other emergency workers were streaming in for a grim task and making this Pasadena landmark their temporary home for the foreseeable future. Dozens …
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By Alison Withers, Dawn Chmielewski, Andrew Hay and Hannah Lang LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Business was brisk at Teddy’s Cocina in Pasadena as wildfire evacuees ate lunch and passersby ducked indoors to escape from the brown, smoky air blanketing the city. “It’s not breathable,” said Dulce Perez, a cook at the restaurant, as an eye-watering …
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By Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of a key component of the Affordable Care Act that effectively gives a task force established under the landmark healthcare law known as Obamacare the ability to require that insurers cover preventive medical care services at no cost to …
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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some law enforcement members participated in arson and murders that occurred during the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report released Friday. The report, which was released in the final days of President Joe Biden’s administration, follows decades of advocacy efforts from …
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service said on Friday it will launch the 2025 tax filing season on Jan. 27 with expanded tools that cannot be adequately supported if the Republican-controlled Congress rescinds tens of billions of dollars in supplemental IRS funding. IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said that should the IRS …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for President-elect Donald Trump, was held in contempt of court on Friday, for the second time this week, in a case brought by two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of helping to rig the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington found …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers called on the Biden administration to consider restricting the export of U.S. biotechnology to the Chinese military, citing concerns Beijing could weaponize it to create more toxic pathogens. In a letter dated Thursday and first reported by Reuters, the lawmakers, led by Republican China Select Committee Chairman …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. is expected to release by next week a climate model for clean fuel tax credits that will sharply reduce the ability of ethanol producers to access subsidies for production of sustainable aviation fuel, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The exclusion …
