By Rich McKay (Reuters) -The largest wildfire in the U.S. swelled to over 600 square miles (1,550 square kms) on Tuesday night, bigger than the city of Los Angeles, fire officials in California said, as thousands of firefighters battled the blaze in a wilderness area north of Sacramento. More than 5,500 firefighters from across California …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Delegates to the Democratic National Convention will hold an Aug. 1-5 virtual vote to formally pick Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for president in a Nov. 5 election, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) said on Tuesday. Harris was the only candidate to qualify for the Democratic presidential ballot, DNC …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is planning to hold a rally with her yet-to-be-named vice presidential choice on Tuesday in Philadelphia, according to two sources familiar with the planning. The move indicates that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is a frontrunner to be Harris’ running mate, the sources said. The campaign said earlier …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – At least 973 Native American children died at Indian Boarding Schools from 1819 to 1969, according to a federal report that calls on the U.S. government to apologize for the 150-year-long forced assimilation policy used to separate children from families and destroy tribal identity. Many of the children who died …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday warned the 10 largest U.S. airlines they must comply with new passenger refund obligations passed by Congress in May, rejecting an industry request for more time. Buttigieg said in letters to airline CEOs that they must follow the new refund provisions taking a …
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By Isla Binnie NEW YORK (Reuters) -The Republican leader of a U.S. congressional committee wrote on Tuesday to demand more than 130 investors explain their environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, highlighting how his party’s scrutiny of such initiatives is continuing. Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, who penned the letters, has warned money managers that …
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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday threatened to cut U.S. funding for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), accusing it of failing to properly investigate alleged doping by Chinese Olympic swimmers. The U.S., the largest single country funder of WADA, has accused the body of not disclosing that 23 …
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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris held a marginal one-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, closing the gap that opened in the final weeks of President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. The three-day poll, completed on Sunday, showed Vice President Harris supported by 43% of registered voters, …
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By Akash Sriram (Reuters) – California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain technology in a bid to detect fraud and smoothen the title transfer process, the agency and its technology partners exclusively told Reuters on Tuesday. The project, in collaboration with tech company Oxhead Alpha on Ava Labs’ …
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By David Lawder PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris would adhere to President Joe Biden’s vow against raising taxes on middle-income Americans and helped formulate Biden-Harris administration proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday. But Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, …
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