By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -Hunger reached its highest point in the United States in nearly a decade last year, with 18 million households, or 13.5%, struggling at some point to secure enough food, a Department of Agriculture report released on Wednesday said. Hunger has been on the rise in the country since 2021, after years …
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(Reuters) – Teamsters members working at Marathon Petroleum’s Detroit refinery have gone on strike after months of pay- and safety-related negotiations with the company did not yield results, the company said on Wednesday. “We are fully prepared and have implemented plans to continue safely operating the facility,” a Marathon spokesperson said in a statement. The …
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(Reuters) -The Unite Here union said on Tuesday strikes by U.S. hotel workers have concluded in Baltimore and Seattle, while 9,376 workers remained on strike in seven cities. Some 10,000 hotel workers began a multi-day strike in nine U.S. cities on Sunday after contract talks with hotel operators Marriott International, Hilton Worldwide, and Hyatt Hotels, …
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HOUSTON (Reuters) – Weather forecasters who produce Colorado State University’s closely watched hurricane outlooks said on Tuesday tropical storm activity in the first week of September would likely be below average. “With the exception of the western Caribbean and southern Gulf of Mexico, large scale environmental conditions look relatively unfavorable for the next (approximately) 7 …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Seven Republican-led states filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to challenge President Joe Biden’s administration’s latest student debt forgiveness plan, saying the U.S. Department of Education was taking steps to start canceling loans as soon as this week. The lawsuit came less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Texas woman has been formally indicted by a grand jury in the attempted drowning of a 3-year-old Palestinian American Muslim girl in a May incident that local police said was motivated by racial bias. The suspect, identified as Elizabeth Wolf, aged 42, was charged by a Tarrant County …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul was charged on Tuesday with secretly acting as an agent of the Chinese government in exchange for millions of dollars in compensation and gifts, including meals of gourmet duck. Linda Sun, 41, and her husband Chris Hu, 40, pleaded not …
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(Reuters) – The West Coast of the United States is bracing for extreme heat with temperatures in desert towns expected to soar as high as 120 Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) and Phoenix likely to extend its streak of 100 days over 100 degrees, forecasters said on Tuesday. The southwestern U.S. can expect multiple days of supercharged …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California doctor and a woman charged with illegally supplying the drug ketamine to “Friends” star Matthew Perry before his overdose death will face trial in March, according to court documents released on Tuesday. Dr. Salvador Plasencia, and Jasveen Sangha, whom authorities said was a drug dealer known …
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By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court allowed on Tuesday President Joe Biden’s administration to cut $4.5 million in federal funding for family planning projects in Oklahoma after the Republican-led state stopped referrals to pregnancy counseling that could provide information about abortion. The justices denied Oklahoma’s request to block the U.S. Department of …
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