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White House issues new federal standards to collect data on race
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday announced new standards for collecting federal data on rac...
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EnCap Investments seeks sale of Utah oil producer XCL Resources, sources say
By Shariq Khan and David French (Reuters) - EnCap Investments is seeking to sell XCL Resources, four people familiar with the...
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Ship insurer Britannia says it's helping Baltimore bridge collapse probe
LONDON (Reuters) - Britannia, the insurer of container ship the Dali, is working with the vessel's owner and U.S. authorities...
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Analysis-Pasta makers cheer Turkey as its durum wheat flows abroad
By Ceyda Caglayan and Gus Trompiz ISTANBUL/PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey's spectacular breakthrough as an exporter of durum wheat ...
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UK's greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% in 2023, government data shows
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 5.4% in 2023 partly due to lower gas us...
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National Sports
76ers optimistic Joel Embiid could return in regular season
Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid is inching closer to a return before the end of the regular season, coach Nick Nurse said...
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Tennis-Decision to retire is about more than just tennis, Collins says
(Reuters) - Danielle Collins again faced questions about her decision to retire this year after she powered into the Miami Op...
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Blackhawks ride rare win streak into game at Ottawa
The Chicago Blackhawks will shoot for their first three-game winning streak of the season when they visit the Ottawa Senators...
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MLB 2024 Preview: Dodgers pegged to win 46 more games than A's
As the 2024 major league season gets underway in earnest on Thursday, the Los Angeles Dodgers are already one game toward the...
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Baseball-Ohtani's LA mural celebrates larger-than-life ballplayer
By Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 'Ohtani-mania' officially kicked off in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday with the un...
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World
Kyiv asks NATO partners for air defence supplies after Russia hits energy system
(Reuters) - Ukraine asked Western allies for air defence supplies at an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on ...
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UN rights committee urges UK to drop plan to deport refugees to Rwanda
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Committee urged Britain on Thursday to abandon a contentious bill to depor...
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Poland investigating Russian espionage, security agency says
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) has carried out searches as part of an investigation with other Eu...
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Italian woman held in Hungary to remain in jail
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - An Italian woman charged in Hungary with taking part in an anti-fascist group's assaults on people they ...
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Latvian foreign minister resigns, Latvian public broadcaster says
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Latvian Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins said he would leave his post from April 10, Latvian public bro...
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Business
US fourth-quarter growth revised up; weekly jobless claims fall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy grew faster than previously estimated in the fourth quarter, lifted by strong consume...
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Japan PM Kishida says appropriate for BOJ to keep easy policy
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday it was appropriate for the central ba...
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Canada's GDP outperforms Jan growth forecast, likely grew 0.4% in Feb
By Promit Mukherjee and Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's gross domestic product in January increased 0.6%, the faste...
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UBS flags commercial real estate downturn as a top risk
By Noele Illien ZURICH (Reuters) - UBS flagged on Thursday the downturn in commercial real estate markets as one of the "...
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Exclusive-China commerce minister to head to Europe to make EV case
PARIS/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's commerce minister will travel to Europe in April for discussions about the European Commis...
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Politics
White House issues new federal standards to collect data on race
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday announced new standards for collecting federal data on rac...
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Pennsylvania can discard undated mail-in ballots, US appeals court rules
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected a challenge to a Pennsylvania rule that allowed the st...
10h ago
Ex-Trump lawyer Eastman should be disbarred, California judge rules
By David Thomas (Reuters) - A California state judge on Wednesday said attorney John Eastman should be stripped of his law li...
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Former U.S. Senator, Joe Lieberman dies at 82, media reports
(Reuters) - Former U.S. senator and vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman has died at the 82, according to media reports. L...
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Florida governor, Disney reach settlement in lawsuit over special district
(Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Walt Disney have reached a settlement to end a high-profile state lawsuit over t...
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Health
European regulators close in on Big Tobacco's new tea sticks
By Emma Rumney LONDON (Reuters) - European governments are weighing the introduction of tougher rules on cigarette makers' ne...
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U.S. FDA approves Akebia's anemia drug
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Akebia Therapeutics' drug to treat anemia caused by chronic kidney...
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UnitedHealth Group has paid over $3.3 billion to care providers hit by cyberattacks
(Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group said on Wednesday that it had advanced more than $3.3 billion so far to care providers impacte...
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J&J gets new opportunity to contest evidence linking talc to cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson will get a new chance to contest the scientific evidence linking talc products to ...
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Moderna secures $750 million from Blackstone Life Sciences to develop flu shots
(Reuters) -Moderna said on Wednesday it has entered into an agreement with private equity firm Blackstone's life science inve...
Mar 27, 2024
Science
A million solar eclipse enthusiasts expected at Niagara Falls
By Wa Lone and Nivedita Balu NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (Reuters) - From vintage train rides costing almost $4,000 per person to ...
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Scientists chronicle the earliest stages of a supernova
By Ari Rabinovitch REHOVOT, Israel (Reuters) - About 20 million years ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a large star exploded...
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Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers on Wednesday announced that they have detected a strong and organized magne...
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Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped ...
Mar 26, 2024
Send robots into space rather than people, says Britain's Astronomer Royal
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said sending people into space when robots could do the job just as...
Mar 26, 2024
Technology
Italy's Azimut to create fintech bank through spin-off, Ipo
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian asset manager Azimut Holding plans to spin-off part of its network of financial advisors and merge ...
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US requiring new AI safeguards for government use, transparency
By David Shepardson (Reuters) - The White House said Thursday it is requiring federal agencies using artificial intelligence ...
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Keysight agrees to buy Britain's Spirent for $1.5 billion
(Reuters) - U.S.-based Keysight Technologies will buy Spirent Communications in an all-cash deal, valuing the British telecom...
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Exclusive-China's WuXi AppTec shared US client's data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators
By Michael Martina, Michael Erman and Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials in late February told senators w...
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Take-Two Interactive to acquire Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment from Embracer
(Reuters) - Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software said late on Wednesday it has come to an agreement to acquire ...
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Entertainment
'The Batman,' a 2022 blockbuster, wasn't plagiarized, US judge rules
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Bros Entertainment didn't steal the plot for its 2022 blockbuster "The B...
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Spice Girl Mel B shares more in expanded memoir, aims to help abuse survivors
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - Spice Girl Mel B is releasing an expanded version of her 2018 memoir, sharing more deta...
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs' lawyer says rapper subject to 'witch hunt'
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer for music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs said Tuesday the rapper was be...
Mar 27, 2024
'Civil War' movie set in near-future US poses questions about politics and journalism
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Filmmaker Alex Garland wants "Civil War", a tense thriller about a group of jou...
Mar 26, 2024
Jane Goodall's 90th birthday wish? More time to get out the conservation message
By Alicia Powell NEW YORK (Reuters) - British primatologist-turned-conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall will mark her 90th birthd...
Mar 26, 2024