By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” during a fundraiser in San Francisco on Wednesday, warning there is always the threat of nuclear conflict but that the existential threat to humanity remains climate.”This is the last existential threat. It is climate. We …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Alabama’s attorney general on Wednesday asked the state’s Supreme Court to authorize a second execution by nitrogen hypoxia, after the state last month became the first to kill a condemned prisoner using the new method of capital punishment. Alabama has since offered to aid other states seeking to carry out …
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By Nathan Layne NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) -Lara Trump, who Donald Trump has endorsed to be the new co-chair of the Republican National Committee, said on Wednesday that the organization needed to raise $500 million for the 2024 general election and did not rule out using raised funds to pay her father-in-law’s mounting legal …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hardline U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday asked Speaker Mike Johnson to abandon talks with Senate Democrats on bipartisan spending legislation to avoid a government shutdown and instead implement an automatic spending cut agreed to by his predecessor. The ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, which represents about three dozen of Johnson’s 219-212 Republican majority in …
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(Reuters) -The United Auto Workers (UAW) said on Wednesday it was committing $40 million to organizing non-union automobile and EV battery workers in the United States over the next two years. The UAW had said in November it was launching a first-of-its-kind push to publicly organize the entire non-union auto sector in the U.S. after …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – A Tennessee company that provides cleaning services for animal slaughterhouses has employed people as young as 13 years old to clean dangerous equipment on overnight shifts in violation of federal law, according to a court document filed on Wednesday. The filing by the U.S. Department of Labor accused Fayette Janitorial …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Texas man who pleaded guilty to involvement in providing banned performance-enhancing drugs to athletes before the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was sentenced on Wednesday to three months in prison, U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan said. Eric Lira, 44, of El Paso, had been the first person charged …
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By Katharine Jackson and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. offered a reward of up to $15 million for information on the leaders of the notorious cybercrime group Lockbit on Wednesday as police in Ukraine announced the arrest of a father-son duo alleged to have been involved with the gang. The developments are the latest …
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By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled on Wednesday they may dismiss a legal fight between a Miami music producer and Warner Music over a song by rapper Flo Rida. Some of the justices during arguments in the case questioned whether they should decide the monetary damages issue raised in plaintiff …
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By Nathan Frandino and Andrew Hay SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters) -Jury selection for the trial of “Rust” chief weapons handler Hannah Gutierrez over the death of the film’s cinematographer began on Wednesday, in a case likely to shape actor Alec Baldwin’s defense of his role in Hollywood’s first on-set shooting fatality in nearly 30 …
