By Gram Slattery and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, the White House said Thursday, in the latest move by Trump to boost the crypto industry and expunge its past misdeeds. Zhao, a billionaire known as “CZ” who is one of …
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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has ensured that federal immigration agents, U.S. Border Patrol officers, FBI special agents and active-duty military personnel continue receiving paychecks during the government shutdown, even as hundreds of thousands of civilian federal workers are furloughed or are working without pay. This selective funding strategy offers a revealing glimpse …
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(Reuters) -Rare earths miner NioCorp said on Thursday it is working with U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin to develop a scandium and aluminum alloy for use in military equipment as part of a Pentagon‑funded program. Colorado-based NioCorp received $10 million from the Pentagon in August to develop a Nebraska mine that will produce scandium, one …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group representing mayors of more than 1,000 U.S. cities has urged the Agriculture Department to use emergency funds to pay for food assistance benefits threatened by the ongoing federal government shutdown. Tens of millions of Americans might not receive food stamps and other food aid in November because the …
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By Steven Scheer and Pesha Magid JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is considering whether to urge Israel to release popular Palestinian political figure Marwan Barghouti, jailed for more than 20 years and repeatedly denied his freedom by Israel. “I am literally being confronted with that question about 15 minutes before you called,” Trump told …
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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin declared a state of emergency on Thursday to help maintain food aid for state residents as a three-week-long U.S. government shutdown threatens to halt federal benefits. Youngkin said the move would allow him to use emergency funds to assist Virginians in the absence of federal appropriations …
By Leah Douglas and P.J. Huffstutter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. states this week warned food aid recipients that their benefits may not be distributed in November if the federal government shutdown stretches into its fourth week. Warnings issued on at least two dozen state websites flag the potential for an unprecedented benefit gap for more than …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A political donor with business interests in the country of Georgia has privately lobbied lawmakers in recent weeks against legislation that would pressure that nation’s anti-Western ruling party, angering a high-ranking congressional Republican and aggravating a growing fight on Capitol Hill over policy toward the major Russian trading partner. A …
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By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO (Reuters) -As the shrill sound of whistles echoed through a parking garage in Chicago’s North Side on Tuesday, two people flung their car doors open, ducked inside and shrank down into their seats. Outside, a convoy of federal immigration enforcement vehicles that had arrived in the area just minutes prior sped …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -U.S. Google users who won a $425 million jury verdict in a consumer privacy class action last month have asked a federal judge to force the Alphabet unit to forfeit an additional $2.36 billion in profits. The consumers in a Wednesday court filing called the amount a “conservative approximation” of Google’s …
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