By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hang up the ripped bodices, give Fabio the bad news and cue the lawyers: the Romance Writers of America, a nonprofit devoted to helping romance writers build their careers, is headed to bankruptcy court. As with so many affairs of the heart, trouble started in a hotel, or …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Tuesday scored a jurisdictional victory when a federal judge in Texas transferred to another court in Washington an industry-backed lawsuit challenging the agency’s rule capping credit card late fees at $8. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth moved swiftly to transfer …
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(Reuters) – The White House on Wednesday unveiled nearly $900 million in awards to 530 school districts to replace thousands of aging, gas-fueled school buses with cleaner, mainly electric models. The funding is the third tranche of $5 billion that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hand out over five years through a clean …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo will visit Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and other government officials about upcoming plans to tighten sanctions on Russia, a Treasury official said. Adeyemo will meet with Marchenko, aides to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, lawmakers, academics and civil …
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By Doina Chiacu and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Actor Robert De Niro called Donald Trump a “clown” who is bent on destroying American democracy on Tuesday outside the New York City courtroom where the Republican presidential candidate’s hush money trial is being held. De Niro, a longtime Democrat who recently voiced an ad for …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Discord from last month’s mob attack on pro-Palestinian student activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, flared again on Tuesday as academic workers staged a strike on campus protesting UCLA’s response to the violence. Unionized academic researchers, graduate teaching assistants and post-doctoral scholars at UCLA walked off …
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(Reuters) -The man who was convicted of assaulting then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband in 2022 was re-sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, with no change in the original sentence after the case was reopened so he could speak during his sentencing hearing, local news reported. David DePape was originally sentenced to 30 …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Democratic National Committee will nominate President Joe Biden as the party’s presidential standard-bearer through a “virtual roll call” ahead of its August convention in Chicago, bypassing a detail in Ohio law that had threatened to keep the president off the November ballot in that state. …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump endorsed a primary election challenger to Republican Representative Bob Good, the chair of an influential House of Representatives caucus who backed a Trump opponent in this year’s presidential primaries. Trump endorsed Virginia state Senator John McGuire, a former Navy SEAL, against Good in the party’s June …
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(Reuters) – The Biden administration is urging big technology companies to ramp up efforts to curb antisemitic content on their platforms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Representatives from companies including Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and X met on Thursday with U.S. special envoy Deborah Lipstadt to monitor and combat antisemitism. Lipstadt requested that each company …
