By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A downed power line electrocuted three people to death in Oregon after falling onto a vehicle on Wednesday but a baby in diapers survived after a witness retrieved the child from the scene, Portland fire officials said. The deaths appear linked to the severe winter storms and subfreezing temperatures that …
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(Reuters) -Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic has died, the National Basketball Association (NBA) club said on Wednesday after the Belgrade native suffered a heart attack during a team dinner. The 46-year-old Milojevic was in his third season as an assistant coach with Golden State after helping the team win the 2022 NBA championship. …
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By Nate Raymond and David Shepardson (Reuters) -Iowa’s attorney general on Wednesday sued TikTok, accusing the video-based social media platform of misleading parents about their children’s access to inappropriate content on the company’s app. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird in a lawsuit filed in a state court in Polk County accused TikTok and its Chinese …
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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A group of freelance writers and editors has sued the U.S. Department of Labor, claiming the Biden administration’s new rule making it more difficult for companies to treat some workers as independent contractors is illegal and should be struck down. The four freelance workers filed the lawsuit in Georgia federal court …
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By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The quality of healthcare for minority children in the United States is universally worse than it is for white children, even after accounting for insurance coverage, an analysis of dozens of recent studies found. The pattern was similar across all medical specialties, including newborn care, emergency medicine, primary care, surgery, …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – California Governor Gavin Newsom killed a bill that would have banned tackle football for kids under 12, as his veto threat led the sponsor of the bill to withdraw it from consideration on Wednesday. California would have been the first state in the U.S. to ban tackle football for kids, …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge warned Donald Trump on Wednesday he could be kicked out of writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial if he kept making disparaging comments that the jury could hear. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan’s threat came after a lawyer for Carroll said Trump was …
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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden had a top aide call former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson to apologize on Wednesday for criticism from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) of Hutchinson’s failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination, the White House said. When Hutchinson pulled out of the Republican race on …
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By Deep Kaushik Vakil and Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -Freezing temperatures in several U.S. regions triggered peak power demand in parts of the country on Wednesday, after homes and businesses consumed a record amount of natural gas for heating and power generation. The severe winter storm dumped snow across a broad part of the country this …
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By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Maine court on Wednesday said the state should wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Donald Trump’s appeal of his disqualification from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot before reevaluating a similar decision in the northeast state. Maine State Superior Court Judge Michaela Murphy ordered Maine Secretary of State …
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