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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Grid operator Southwest Power Pool on Thursday issued a cold weather advisory for its 14-state region in the central U.S., warning of extreme arctic temperatures throughout the weekend and into early next week. The transmission system operator said it expects to have sufficient…

ALTOONA/MARION, Iowa (Reuters) — When Iowa voters gather on Monday to kick off the Republican presidential nominating race, forecasters predict it could be the coldest Iowa caucus night ever – as low as a frigid minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit (-29 degrees Celsius) in places. Candidate Ron DeSant…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Congress must raise spending on a food assistance program for low-income women and children or 2 million could be turned away this year, Biden administration officials said on Thursday. A bitterly divided Congress has for months failed to reach agreement on 2024 gove…

(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 thro…

NEW YORK (Reuters) — The top enforcer of criminal malfeasance on Wall Street is calling on whistleblowers to come forward and report wrongdoing under a new program aimed at uncovering illegal activity. Damian Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, told reporters on Wednesday his office …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden met on Wednesday with the sister of Paul Whelan, the former U.S. Marine detained in Russia, the White House said. The White House said that after a private meeting with Elizabeth Whelan “to discuss the Administration’s continued efforts to secure Pau…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Senior U.S. and Chinese officials, in a virtual meeting on Wednesday, discussed cooperating on law enforcement issues including the illicit flow of synthetic drugs such as fentanyl, the U.S. Department Of Homeland Security said. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayo…

(Reuters) — Ohio’s House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to override the governor’s veto of a bill that bans gender-affirming healthcare for minors, one of dozens of bills under debate this year that would restrict transgender rights across the U.S. In this presidential election y…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday moved toward holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for not testifying in their impeachment probe of his father President Joe Biden, after he set off pandemonium with an unexpected Capitol appearance. Republican lawmakers in both the …

(Reuters) — A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday suspended a criminal case that alleged former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick fondled an 18-year-old boy in 1977, finding the 93-year-old was not competent to stand trial after he was diagnosed with dementia. Judge David Reddy’s decision c…