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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Thursday blocked the Republican-led state’s new law giving officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and order the removal of people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. District Judge David Ezra in Austin agreed with Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration that the law known as …

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By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden struck a defiant tone on Wednesday at a Republican-led House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into his father, calling it a “baseless” partisan pursuit against his family. “For more than a year, your committees have hunted me in your partisan political pursuit of my …

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By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) – Wall Street’s top regulator will vote on March 6 on whether to adopt rules requiring U.S.-listed companies to report climate-related risks, the agency said in a notice on Wednesday, in a potentially major overhaul of U.S. disclosure rules. The Securities and Exchange Commission rules aim to standardize climate-related company disclosures …

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(Reuters) – The 18-year-old son of U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert was arrested in Colorado on suspicion of stealing identity documents among other charges, police in the town of Rifle said. Rifle police said in a statement they arrested Tyler Jay Boebert on Tuesday. He faces four felony counts of criminal possession of identity documents, one …

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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -Comedian Richard Lewis, who rose to fame with his neurotic, self-deprecating wit and later appeared for more than two decades alongside Larry David on the hit HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” has died at 76, his publicist said on Wednesday. The comic, who disclosed last year that he was battling Parkinson’s …

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