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Actors, Hollywood studios still at odds on AI and other issues, union says

2 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Negotiators for Hollywood actors and major studios have not resolved concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) and other issues in talks aimed at ending an 111-day strike, the SAG-AFTRA union said late Wednesday. The union said it had presented a revised proposal on the use of artificial intelligence to …

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Donald Trump Jr. says he played minor role in company finances

2 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. testified on Wednesday that he had little to do with preparing financial documents at the family real-estate company that a judge has found fraudulent, in a trial that could hobble the former U.S. president’s business empire. Over the course of one and a …

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US House Speaker Johnson to bring Israel bill to floor despite deficit risk

2 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday he plans to hold a vote on a standalone Israel aid bill despite a Congressional Budget Office report showing it could increase the federal deficit. In the first major legislative action under Johnson, House Republicans unveiled their bill on Monday seeking to provide …

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Kentucky coal building collapse kills one man, another missing

2 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

(Reuters) -The collapse of an idle coal-sorting building in Kentucky killed one man and trapped another man under the rubble, authorities said on Wednesday. The 11-story structure at the Martin Mine Prep Plant in Martin County caved in on Tuesday evening, the Kentucky Emergency Management agency said in a statement. The two workers were trapped …

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Republican mega-donor Adelson met with Haley in Las Vegas -sources

2 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Casino billionaire and mega Republican donor Miriam Adelson met in Las Vegas with 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who has been rising in the polls in key states, over the weekend, two sources briefed on the meeting said. The previously unreported meeting during a gathering of Republican Jewish donors is likely …

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Biden and first lady to visit Maine on Friday to mourn shooting victims

2 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel on Friday to Lewiston, Maine, where 18 people were shot and killed at a bar and bowling alley last week, the White House said on Wednesday. Robert R. Card, 40, a U.S. Army reservist, sprayed the bowling alley and bar with …

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Memphis officer charged in Tyre Nichols death to change plea

2 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – One of the five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols has asked a U.S. District Court judge to change his plea of not guilty in the federal civil rights case, court records showed on Wednesday. Desmond Mills Jr., who previously pleaded not guilty …

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US Senate passes three bipartisan appropriations bills

1 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed three bills laying out funding plans for agriculture, military and veterans affairs and transportation for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2024. THE TAKE Congress has until Nov. 17 to agree on funding to avert a partial government shutdown. The Senate and House of …

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Biden kicks off rural America tour in Minnesota

1 Nov 2023 2 Nov 2023

By Andrea Shalal NORTHFIELD, Minnesota (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said consolidation in meat processing and retail chains over the decades has hurt U.S. farmers and announced $5 billion in new investments benefiting rural Americans during a visit to a family farm in Minnesota. The trip, the first stop in what the …

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Ex-Goldman banker gets three years in prison for insider trading

1 Nov 2023 1 Nov 2023

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Goldman Sachs investment banker was sentenced on Wednesday in Manhattan to three years in prison, after being convicted of passing tips about potential mergers that the Wall Street bank was working on. Brijesh Goel, 39, who had been a Goldman vice president, was sentenced by U.S. …

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