(This story contains explicit language in paragraph 3) (Reuters) – Body camera video captured the shocked reactions of first responders in the aftermath of the collapse of a Baltimore bridge in March in which six men were killed. The recordings, obtained by local media on Friday, offer a snapshot of the incredulity of officers from …
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By Jeff Mason PORTOLA VALLEY, California (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden joked on Friday that he wished former President Donald Trump had injected himself with a little bleach, resurrecting one of Trump’s more head-scratching moments from the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden, at a fundraising event south of San Francisco for his …
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(Reuters) -Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin called on his alma mater Harvard University on Saturday to embrace “Western values”, saying that the turmoil across college campuses was the product of a “cultural revolution” in U.S. education. Griffin, founder of U.S. hedge fund Citadel, told the Financial Times in an interview that the U.S. had “lost sight …
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(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, will not be a delegate representing Florida at the Republican National Convention in July due to prior commitments, the office of his mother Melania said on Friday. On Thursday, a campaign official said Barron Trump, 18, had been selected by the state party as …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A former owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly U.S. fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced on Friday to at least 10 years in prison for his role in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents. Barry Cadden, the former president of New England Compounding …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren called on the Treasury Department this week to address racial discrimination in the U.S. tax and banking systems more swiftly by advancing reforms proposed by an advisory board set up in December 2022. In a letter dated May 9, Warren told Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen she …
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By Zeba Siddiqui SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. FBI is working towards charging hackers from the aggressive Scattered Spider criminal gang who are largely based in the U.S. and western countries and have breached dozens of American organisations, a senior official said. The young hackers grabbed headlines last year when they broke into the …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration said on Friday it will provide nearly $200 million to fight the spread of avian flu among dairy cows, in the government’s latest bid to contain outbreaks that have fueled concerns about human infections with the H5N1 virus. The virus has been detected among dairy cattle …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by four Republican-led states that sought to block a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring investment funds to categorize and disclose their proxy votes on issues including environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based …
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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is expected on Monday to issue a final rule to address the crunch in U.S. electricity transmission as the grid struggles to connect enormous amounts of clean power while demand surges. The long-awaited rule will attempt to ensure that a dozen fragmented U.S. …
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