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(Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration is poised to announce an adjustment to its scientific modeling for ethanol that will show the corn-based fuel to be less effective at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than previously estimated, three sources briefed on the plans told Reuters. The adjustment, previously unreported, will make it more difficult for ethanol …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Arthur Engoron, a cabdriver-turned-judge who found Donald Trump liable for fraud, did not hold back in accusing the former U.S. president of trying to take him for a ride. In ordering Trump and his family business to pay a $355 million penalty, Engoron displayed the wit, humor and …

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By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily halted the Boy Scouts of America’s $2.46 billion settlement of decades of sex abuse claims, which is being appealed by a group of 144 abuse claimants. Alito’s brief order freezing the settlement gives the court more time to decide a Feb. 9 …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas is building a military “base camp” in the city of Eagle Pass near the U.S.-Mexico border, part of a broader effort by the state’s Republican governor to deter illegal immigration. The facility – dubbed Forward Operating Base Eagle – will be an 80-acre complex along the banks of …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. special counsel leading a criminal probe into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, said a former FBI informant was charged with lying about the pair’s alleged involvement in business dealings with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. In a statement on Thursday, Special Counsel David Weiss said a federal …

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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel (Reuters) – Lawyers for Donald Trump on Thursday told the U.S. Supreme Court that the former president’s criminal trial on charges of plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss should be delayed because the justices will hear a separate case in the coming months that could affect two of …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. federal prosecutors charged Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the co-founder of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa drug cartel, with conspiracy to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, prosecutors in New York said on Thursday. Zambada founded the Sinaloa Cartel along with now-jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and U.S. prosecutors allege he continues to …

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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -Two climate change activists appeared in court on Thursday for throwing pink powder on glass cases displaying the U.S. Constitution at the National Archives Museum in Washington, according to the U.S. attorney’s office and court records. The revered founding document, written on four sheets of parchment in 1787, was protected by …

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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A plan launched by New Mexico’s Democratic governor at COP28 to use $100 million in state funds to buy treated brackish or wastewater from oil and gas operations failed to get support from the state’s legislature on Thursday. The southwestern state’s legislature closed its 2024 session on Thursday without …

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