By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – While the increase in interest rates engineered by the Federal Reserve over the last two years put a damper on the overall U.S. housing market, it took a sledge hammer to home flippers from small contractors to reality TV stars. Just ask Tarek El Moussa, star of HGTV’s …
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By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – When environmentalists talk about climate change, it’s typically in stark terms, describing it as a crisis that threatens the future of the planet. A scrappy group of filmmakers and activists think it can also be funny. The Gas Leaks Project, a group formed by climate advocacy veterans, launched a $1 …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate was preparing to vote early on Saturday on final passage of a bill providing $1.2 trillion to avoid a partial government shutdown, after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a deal just before a midnight deadline. The Senate was quickly working its way through a series of proposed amendments – …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate was preparing to vote early on Saturday on final passage of a bill providing $1.2 trillion to avoid a partial government shutdown, after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced a deal just before a midnight deadline. The Senate was quickly working its way through a series of proposed amendments – …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Two people, including a young boy, were killed and dozens of others were injured in a Texas highway crash on Friday when a cement truck veered head-on into an school bus carrying more than 40 children on a field trip, authorities said. The accident, which left the school bus on …
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By Jonathan Allen SEAFORD, New York (Reuters) – For years, New York’s Long Island Roller Rebels have welcomed transgender women to strap on skates and body padding and join their women’s roller derby team. Now, under an executive order issued this month by Nassau County on Long Island, if they want to book a county-run …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a land swap needed before developers can build a major clean-energy transmission line through a Mississippi River wildlife refuge, according to attorneys involved in the case. U.S. District Judge William Conley issued a preliminary injunction suspending U.S. government approvals for the land swap …
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By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Two people found slain in Idaho during the manhunt for an escaped prison inmate and his armed accomplice have been identified as elderly men the fugitives encountered, and in one case abducted, while on the run, police said on Friday. Skylar Meade, serving time for aggravated battery, and Nicholas Umphenour, …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday the number of measles cases in the United States has increased to 62 as of Thursday, higher than the whole of last year. The CDC issued a health advisory on Monday urging people, particularly children and international travelers, to get vaccinated …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats, who helped Republican hardliners oust Kevin McCarthy as U.S. House of Representatives speaker last year, said on Friday that they could protect Speaker Mike Johnson from a similar fate if he allowed a vote on stalled aid to Ukraine. Comments to that effect from several House Democrats followed …
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