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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s central bank should consider decoupling from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, Deputy Governor Omar Mejia said in a Bloomberg Linea story published on Wednesday, calling for discussion of the issue at the bank’s next policy meeting. “We’re going to be reviewing the data. We have the decision coming soon and …

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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The number of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border dropped off dramatically from December to January following new rules that expel them back to Mexico, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.     U.S. authorities encountered a daily average of just 115 migrants from …

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By David Latona MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish authorities said they were investigating what they called a possible “terrorist” incident after a machete-wielding man attacked several people at two churches in the southern port city of Algeciras, killing at least one person. The man attacked clergymen at two different churches – San Isidro and Nuestra Senora de …

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By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) -Authorities at a Virginia school were warned three times that a first grader had a gun before he shot and wounded his teacher, her lawyer said on Wednesday, while the school board voted to oust the superintendent. Abigail Zwerner, 25, was “shot purposely” in front of other students at Richneck Elementary …

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By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) -Environmentalists on Wednesday protested U.S. government plans to transfer an endangered Mexican gray wolf captured in New Mexico to Mexico, saying it should be allowed to roam free and repopulate the Rockies. The she-wolf, named Asha by schoolchildren, was captured near Taos, New Mexico, on Sunday after heading further …

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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives are divided over how hard a line to take on the debt ceiling, but were united on Wednesday in demanding that Democratic President Joe Biden agree to negotiate on spending as part of any deal. Hard-line Republican conservatives, who have the power …

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By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some of Wall Street’s biggest names are throwing cold water on expectations that the U.S. economy will scrape through 2023 without a recession, even as hopes of easing inflation and resilient growth propel stocks higher. Banks and asset managers that have reiterated recession calls include BlackRock, Wells Fargo …

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(Reuters) – Donald Trump could learn soon whether he or any associates will be charged or cleared of wrongdoing in a Georgia probe into his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat, one of a series of legal threats looming over the Republican former U.S. president: GEORGIA ELECTION TAMPERING PROBE On Tuesday, the prosecutor in …

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of the U.S. House of Representatives traded jabs on Wednesday over Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to remove three Democrats from the intelligence and foreign affairs committees, two years after Democrats ousted two Republicans from committee assignments. Reflecting the bitter divide in the newly seated House, where Republicans …

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