By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -Livestock farmers in the U.S. would have a clearer path to bringing antitrust complaints against meatpacking companies for unfair business practices under a rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday. The proposed rule is the fourth introduced by President Joe Biden’s administration to boost competition in the highly …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory on Tuesday alerting healthcare providers about an increased risk of dengue virus infections in the United States. Cases of the mosquito-borne viral illness have touched a record high in the Americas this year, the agency said, echoing a similar statement from the World …
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By Andrew Goudsward FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) -The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case indicated on Tuesday that she was unlikely to grant his lawyers’ request to exclude swaths of evidence from trial on the grounds that FBI agents had been given too much leeway to search his property. At a hearing in a …
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(Reuters) – Police in North Las Vegas on Tuesday captured a man they suspect shot and killed five people in an apartment complex, according to local media reports. The Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper, citing a police statement, said that in addition to the five dead, a 13-year-old girl was also shot and is in critical …
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By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. voters see Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as the better candidate for the economy but prefer his Democratic rival President Joe Biden’s approach on preserving democracy, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The three-day poll that concluded on Sunday showed that less than five months before the Nov. 5 …
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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the state’s approval of a publicly funded religious charter school is unconstitutional. The ruling follows a decision last year by an Oklahoma school board to approve the Catholic Church’s application to create the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the U.S. …
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By Nandita Bose COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s campaign used the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning abortion rights on Monday to spotlight Donald Trump’s role in the ruling, as Democrats zero in on the issue ahead of the November election. Vice President Kamala Harris, a former prosecutor, said Trump, the …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Americans from New York to Washington may finally get a reprieve on Monday from the oppressive heat wave of the past week, although sizzling temperatures threaten much of the Southeast and Southwest, weather forecasters said. The heat wave will likely peak in the Southwest, Mid-South and Plains early this week, …
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By Gram Slattery and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two key advisers to Donald Trump have presented him with a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine – if he wins the presidential election – that involves telling Ukraine it will only get more U.S. weapons if it enters into peace talks. The United States would …
By Sarah N. Lynch and Alasdair Pal WASHINGTON/SYDNEY (Reuters) -WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a 14-year legal odyssey. Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty …
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