By Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) – The role Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, will play in his White House bid is coming into focus, as the wealthy lawyer injects millions of dollars into their independent campaign and amplifies their stances on social media. Shanahan, a political neophyte tapped in March to be the …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – The Biden administration’s threat to impose more tariffs on China is the latest election-year signal that frostier relations with China are likely to follow regardless of who wins the U.S. presidency. U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday to call for higher tariffs on …
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By Jack Queen and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Lawyers in Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution still must select alternate …
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(This April 18 story has been refiled to correct the day of arrest to Thursday, not Wednesday, in paragraph 1) By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – More than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Thursday on the campus of Columbia University after its president authorized New York police to clear an encampment set up by students …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Maine lawmakers on Thursday sent a draft of gun safety measures to the governor to sign into law, fulfilling a promise to take swift action designed to prevent mass shootings such as a rampage last year that killed 18 people in the city of Lewiston. Governor Janet Mills, a Democrat …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Any national-security review of the deal for Japan’s Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will proceed as normal, a White House official said on Thursday. President Joe Biden has repeatedly said he opposed the sale …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Thursday announced the nomination of Curtis Ried as the U.S. representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Ried serves as chief of staff and executive secretary of the White House National Security Council. The OSCE, the world’s largest regional security organization of 57 states, …
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By Nandita Bose, Trevor Hunnicutt and Stephanie Kelly PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -Fifteen members of the storied Kennedy political family endorsed U.S. President Joe Biden at a Philadelphia campaign event on Thursday, with some joining him onstage, in a rebuke of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s independent bid for office. Biden, a Democrat, faces Republican Donald Trump in …
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(Reuters) – Holtec International, which is in charge of decommissioning the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York, on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the state over its rules regarding the discharge of radioactive materials from nuclear power plants. The company said the authority to monitor radioactive discharge was with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory …
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By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. electrical systems are not expanding fast enough to meet rapidly growing power needs of technology like Generative AI, prompting data center businesses to sometimes bypass utilities, executives said at an energy conference this week. Layers of regulations, citing and permitting processes, and frequent legal fights brought by …
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