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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Climate change harms Americans physically, mentally and financially, often hitting those who have done the least to cause it, including Black people facing floods in the South and minorities enduring searing heat in cities, a federal report said on Tuesday. More than a dozen …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with his Chinese and Canadian counterparts on Thursday in San Francisco during an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Mexico’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Lopez Obrador, who seldom travels outsi…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Federal Reserve’s top Wall Street cop Michael Barr and other bank regulators sought to reassure skeptical U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that their plans to hike U.S. bank capital requirements would not impede lending or hurt small businesses. Members of the U.S. Senate …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Maryanne Trump Barry, former president Donald Trump’s older sister and a former federal judge, has died at age 86, according to family members. The former president remembered his late sister in a Truth Social post on Tuesday. “A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant,…

(Reuters) — The head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation faced outraged criticism from lawmakers on Tuesday following a media report that cited pervasive allegations of sexual harassment at his agency. FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, who appeared at a Capitol Hill oversight hearing wi…

(Reuters) — Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia may not conclude until the winter of 2024 or early 2025 – during the final run-up to or perhaps even after the next election – the prosecutor leading the case said on Tuesday. “I believe t…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — A Los Angeles freeway section heavily damaged by a weekend fire can be salvaged and reopened after extensive repairs rather than having to be demolished and rebuilt, a project that nevertheless will likely take three to five weeks, officials said on Tuesday. The decision to …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday reported a $6.5 billion net loss for the 12 months ending Sept. 30 and said it will not breakeven next year as first-class mail fell to the lowest volume since 1968. The Postal Service said revenue fell 0.4% to $78.2 billion results. U.S. Po…

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) — The White House on Tuesday said it had its own intelligence that Hamas was using Gaza’s largest hospital Al Shifa to run its military operations, and probably to store weapons, saying those actions constituted a war crime. “We have information that confi…

SAN FRANCISCO — The United States Senate voted 48-43 to confirm President Joe Biden’s nomination of District Judge Ana de Alba to serve as a circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge de Alba was nominated for the judgeship on April 17, 2023, and had her nomination hea…