(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles brought hate crime charges on Friday against a man accused of shooting two people this week in a predominantly Jewish section of Los Angeles. The FBI said in charging documents in the case that Jaime Tran, 29, told police after his arrest that he had looked up the …
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By Lucila Sigal CIGUENA/ROSARIO, Argentina (Reuters) – In the Argentine town of Ciguena, rancher Andrés Betiger is fighting to keep his farm from going under amid the South American country’s worst drought in sixty years, which has pummeled soy, corn and wheat crops and dented cattle herds. To get water, Betiger travels 52 kilometers (32 …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Some witnesses may have lied under oath during a grand jury probe of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia, according to excerpts from the panel’s findings released on Thursday. The special grand jury also concluded there was no widespread fraud in the election, despite Trump’s false …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Friday met with European Union Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis and discussed the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, Tai’s office said in a statement. EU countries fear the U.S. legislation’s $369 billion of subsidies for electric vehicles and other clean technologies could put companies …
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By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq finished in the red on Friday and oil prices settled lower after U.S. economic data prompted bets that the Federal Reserve would get more aggressive with interest rate hikes to battle stubborn inflation. Friday’s data showed a year-over-year 0.8% increase in export …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As major debt-distressed countries and major creditors discussed ways to unlock faster debt relief on Friday, legislation under consideration in New York’s state legislature would push private sector creditors to participate, state lawmakers and non-profit groups say. New York State Senator Brad Holyman-Sigal, a Democrat representing lower and parts …
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(Reuters) -Protests rocked Iran again overnight Thursday after seeming to have dwindled in recent weeks, with marchers calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, online video posts purportedly showed on Friday. The marches in numerous cities including Tehran that began on Thursday evening and went on into the night marked 40 days since the …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Commerzbank will rejoin the DAX index on Feb. 27, Deutsche Boerse announced late on Friday, marking a comeback for Germany’s No. 2 lender after it was removed from the club of blue-chip companies in 2018. The return to the index comes after Commerzbank launched a major overhaul two years ago that …
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By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Becton Dickinson’s C.R. Bard Inc on Friday won a ruling from a U.S. appeals court reinstating three patents related to its PowerPort devices for delivering repeated medical injections. The decision from the Washington, D.C.-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit revives a long-running infringement lawsuit Bard brought against …
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By Nathan Layne HILLSDALE, Mich (Reuters) – Jon Smith, a local leader in rural Michigan of America First, a far-right Republican faction that denies the results of the 2020 election, wants to shift the entire party to the right – even if it means short-term losses at the ballot box. “We need to redefine what …
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