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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Travel on U.S. roads in 2023 rose 2.1% to 3.263 trillion miles setting a new yearly record and topping pre-COVID 19 levels for the first time, the Transportation Department said Thursday. Road travel overall last year was up 67.5 billion miles and up by 2.2% in December, according to preliminary …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday appeared skeptical that a Massachusetts middle school violated a student’s right to free speech by requiring him to stop wearing a T-shirt that said, “There are only two genders.” A lawyer for Liam Morrison, 13, told the three judges of a 1st U.S. …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A top U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) official on Thursday defended President Joe Biden’s pause on approvals of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports at a Senate hearing called by a fellow Democrat who said he will investigate the decision. Biden paused the approvals late last month so his administration can …

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By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats grilled three top pharmaceutical executives over the high cost of prescription drugs on Thursday but failed to extract any commitments from them to lower prices. Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Chris Boerner, Merck CEO Robert Davis, and Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato appeared before the Senate …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed to investigate whether President Joe Biden improperly handled sensitive government documents, is a former high-ranking Justice Department official with experience in prosecuting sensitive leak investigations. On Thursday, he concluded that probe and found that Biden retained classified materials about Afghanistan after leaving the …

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By Brad Heath (Reuters) – A U.S. special counsel who investigated Joe Biden and his handling of classified documents issued a report on Thursday saying that the president retained classified materials about Afghanistan after leaving the vice presidency in 2017 but will not be criminally charged. Robert Hur, who served in senior roles at the …

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