By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York judge will hold a hearing on April 22 over the $175 million bond Donald Trump posted as he appeals a $454 million fraud judgment against him, the state attorney general’s office said on Thursday, after asking for more details about the bond. The Republican presidential candidate …
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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Bird flu has infected a dairy herd in Ohio for the first time and was detected in additional herds in Kansas and New Mexico, according to the U.S. government, expanding an outbreak in cows that has raised concerns about possible risks to humans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) …
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By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. power grids are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks, with the number of susceptible points in electrical networks increasing by about 60 per day, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) said in a webcast on Thursday. The grids’ virtual and physical weak spots, or points in software or …
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By Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Centrist group No Labels will not field a third-party bid for the U.S. presidency because it could not find a candidate with a credible path to winning the White House, the group said on Thursday. Only last month some 800 No Labels delegates voted to launch a …
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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator (EPA) Michael Regan on Thursday announced eight organizations that will oversee the spending of $20 billion in grants to fund tens of thousands of clean energy and transportation projects in disadvantaged communities across the United States. The $20 billion, made …
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Texas and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported a case of avian influenza in a person who had contact with dairy cows presumed to be infected with the virus. It was the second case of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, commonly known as …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee will hold an April 10 hearing on the nomination of Jennifer Homendy to serve a new term as chair of the National Transportation Safety Board. Homendy, who was renominated by President Joe Biden last month, was the on-scene board member for last week’s Baltimore …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. prosecutor leading the case against Donald Trump for retaining classified documents after leaving office pushed back on a federal judge after she signaled she may accept the former president’s claim that the records were his personal property. U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a court filing …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The election campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee said on Wednesday they raised over $65.6 million in March, more than three times the amount raised in February. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Democrat Joe Biden’s re-election campaign has routinely surpassed Trump’s in fundraising ahead …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A New York judge on Wednesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star until the U.S. Supreme Court reviews claim to presidential immunity in a separate criminal case. The Court is scheduled to hear the …
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