By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – The city of Berkeley, California, has agreed to hand over to Indigenous peoples a parking lot built atop a sacred tribal ground dating back more than five millennia. The 2.2-acre site is part of the first human settlement on the San Francisco Bay, according to representatives of the Ohlone people, …
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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden rejected a request to testify to an open hearing before a Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives committee conducting an impeachment probe of his father, his lawyer said on Wednesday. “Your blatant planned-for-media event is not a proper proceeding but an obvious attempt to …
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(Reuters) -The judge in Donald Trump’s Georgia election subversion trial on Wednesday dismissed three criminal counts against the former U.S. president and three others against co-defendants, a court filing showed on Wednesday, while letting the overall case proceed. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee decided that allegations by state prosecutors that Trump and his co-defendants tried …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Eggland’s Best, one of the largest U.S. egg producers, has been sued for falsely claiming that its eggs contain less saturated fat than other eggs. The proposed class action filed on Tuesday in federal court in Chicago by Richard Vilchis challenges Eggland’s Best’s claim on its packaging that its eggs contain …
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(Reuters) -James Crumbley, whose son killed four fellow students in a 2021 U.S. school shooting, criminally failed to heed warning signs about his son’s instability, resulting in a foreseeable tragedy, prosecutors said in closing arguments on Wednesday at his manslaughter trial. Crumbley, 47, is being tried on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for allegedly ignoring …
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By David Lawder ELIZABETHTOWN, Kentucky (Reuters) -Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday clean energy investments in parts of the U.S. historically reliant on fossil fuels have more than doubled to $4.5 billion per month due to Biden administration tax credits targeting such communities. Yellen said in remarks in central Kentucky that Treasury Department research …
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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said business and banking groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, engaged in “forum shopping” when they sued in Fort Worth, Texas to block a rule aimed at lowering credit card late fees. The CFPB urged a federal judge there to deny an injunction …
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(Reuters) – Social media platform X has canceled its partnership with Don Lemon, it said on Wednesday, hours after the former CNN anchor said the platform’s owner Elon Musk would be his first guest in an interview due to be aired on Monday. X said in January that Lemon – who was fired in April …
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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday plans to gather rapper Fat Joe and several people pardoned by the Biden administration for marijuana-related convictions for a White House public discussion about criminal justice reform. The meeting comes as Harris, a Democrat, is tasked with convincing people of color and …
By Helen Coster (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both clinched their parties’ nomination on Tuesday, kicking off the first U.S. presidential election rematch in nearly 70 years. In the Republican race, 161 delegates were up for grabs across the four states holding contests: Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and Washington. Trump, the sole …
