(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is rolling out tests that block access to news content for some Canadian users, the company confirmed on Wednesday, in what it says is a test run of a potential response to the government’s online news bill. The “Online News Act,” or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April …
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By Jorge Garcia LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A California man was sentenced on Wednesday to at least 60 years in prison for the 2019 killing of Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle after a chance encounter in the south Los Angeles neighborhood where the men grew up. A jury had found Eric Holder Jr, 32, guilty of first-degree …
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By Howard Schneider and Michael S. Derby WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nearly all Federal Reserve policymakers rallied behind a decision to further slow the pace of interest rate hikes at the U.S. central bank’s last policy meeting, but also indicated that curbing unacceptably high inflation would be the “key factor” in how much further rates need to …
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By Hyunjoo Jin and Akash Sriram SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Elon Musk is not entirely abandoning California, saying on Wednesday that Tesla Inc will make the state its global engineering home, even though the electric vehicle maker’s corporate headquarters are now in Texas. Musk on Wednesday announced the news with the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, …
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By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -A major winter storm battered the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with high winds and heavy snow on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of schools to close, grounding air travel and making road travel difficult – if not impossible – in some U.S. areas. More than 50 million Americans were under winter …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – Cattle ranchers on Wednesday asked a federal judge for an order blocking the U.S. Forest Service from shooting dozens of feral cattle from a helicopter in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, arguing the planned cull is inhumane and could hurt their businesses. The ranchers and local business owners told U.S. District …
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By David French (Reuters) – The S&P 500 extended its losing streak to four sessions as Wall Street ended broadly lower on Wednesday, with investors cautious despite the latest guidance on rate policy from the U.S. central bank showing few surprises. Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s Jan. 31-Feb. 1 meeting said that “almost all” Fed …
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By Mark Trevelyan and Jake Cordell LONDON (Reuters) -Russia will stick to agreed limits on nuclear missiles and keep informing the United States about changes in its deployments, a senior defence official said on Wednesday, despite the suspension of its last remaining arms control treaty with Washington. Both chambers of Russia’s parliament voted quickly in …
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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) -A spate of anonymous telephone calls warning of attacks on public schools sparked evacuations and lockdowns in at least a dozen Colorado school districts on Wednesday, but the measures were lifted after police determined the threats were unfounded. The security scare began shortly before 9 a.m. when a man called …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Congress Democrats accused House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy of endangering Capitol Police officers and potentially exposing security secrets if he releases thousands of hours of video footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. “The speaker is needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of …
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