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(Reuters) – Union Pacific said on Tuesday it has mostly resumed operations impacted due to Hurricane Beryl in Texas but expects some disruptions till commercial power and road accessibility are fully restored. “All impacted track segments, with the exception of the Galveston area have been quickly restored to service,” the railroad operator said. The storm …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The cash and gold that authorities seized from Bob Menendez were not the proceeds of bribes as prosecutors allege, a defense lawyer said in his closing argument on Tuesday in the once-powerful senator’s corruption trial. Prosecutors say Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in the …

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By Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) – A jury in Manhattan federal court began deliberations on Tuesday in the criminal case against Archegos Capital Management founder Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang, accused by prosecutors of manipulating stock prices before the 2021 collapse of his $36 billion private investment firm. Prosecutors and defense lawyers delivered closing arguments …

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe, a mainstay of the ideological right in the U.S. Congress and champion of American military strength who derided as a hoax the notion that human activities drove climate change, died on Tuesday at age 89. The former Oklahoma U.S. senator suffered a stroke over the …

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(Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he expected President Joe Biden to remain in the race for the White House despite growing calls within Biden’s Democratic Party for him to step aside for a younger nominee. Trump, 78, said on Monday that Biden, 81, would refuse to quit the campaign because of his …

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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -The bird flu strain found in cows in the United States is not easily transmitted through the air among ferrets, a new study shows, although the scientist who led the work said it had shown some ability to spread this way. Ferrets are considered to be the best small mammal …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Pentagon program to replace some of its aging intercontinental ballistic missiles will be years behind schedule and 81% over budget, the U.S. military said on Monday. The project, now named the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, is designed and managed by Northrop Grumman, and aims to replace aging Minuteman III missiles. …

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