(Reuters) – The U.S. East Coast remained under the threat of menacing weather on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm loomed across the region after leaving in its wake power outages, grounded flights and several towns swamped with flood waters. More than 50 million people from eastern Ohio up through the Mid-Atlantic and into the …
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By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and his leading Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, start the election year in a dead heat as many Americans appear to be unenthusiastic about their choices, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday found. With the state-by-state nominating contest set to kick off with Republican …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Bob Menendez on Wednesday asked a judge to dismiss the government’s corruption case against him, saying the indictment targets official acts that should be immune from prosecution. The New Jersey Democrat has pleaded not guilty to charges of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from businessmen to …
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By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) -A massive winter storm moving across the eastern half of the U.S. on Tuesday knocked out power to about 811,000 homes and businesses in 12 states ahead of a brutal freeze expected to blanket the region starting this weekend. The hardest hit states so far are New York and Pennsylvania, each …
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(This Jan. 9 story has been refiled to correct the spelling of ‘envelop’ in the headline) By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Brutal winter weather enveloped much of the U.S. on Tuesday and was forecast to continue through the week in areas, with forecasters predicting heavy rains in the east and several feet of snow for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s plane, Air Force Two, was diverted on its way back from Atlanta on Tuesday because of weather conditions, her office said. “Tonight, en route from Atlanta, GA, Air Force 2 was diverted to Dulles International Airport from Joint Base Andrews due to inclement weather,” Harris’s spokesperson, Kirsten …
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By Steve Holland, Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden did not learn that his defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, had prostate cancer until Tuesday, the White House said, minutes after it was disclosed to the public along with an infection that was also kept under wraps. Austin, who is 70, has …
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(Reuters) – Schoolteacher Bob Sauer said he took a flashlight to his tree-filled backyard on Sunday evening on the small chance he might find a plane part that had torn off an Alaska Airlines jet on Friday at an altitude of about 16,000 feet (4,877 m). U.S. authorities investigating the incident on the Boeing 737 …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. is seeking bids from contractors to help establish a domestic supply of a uranium fuel enriched to higher levels for use in a next generation of reactors, a fuel currently only available in commercial levels from Russia, the Department of Energy said on Tuesday. The DOE is seeking …
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans said on Tuesday that a short-term funding measure will be needed to avert a partial federal government shutdown beginning in 10 days – a notion Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson could have trouble swallowing. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that lawmakers will “obviously” need …
