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By Brendan O’Brien and Joseph Ax (Reuters) -A woman who lived at the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death told investigators she heard someone crying in one of the victim’s bedrooms on the night of the murders – and then watched as a masked man walked past her and out …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Thursday the U.S. economy was seeing “really bright spots” after a rough few years, and was headed to a “new plateau,” a new term for the stable, slower growth White House officials see ahead. While investors, many economists and some CEOs have warned recently …

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(Reuters) – The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday launched a virtual program aimed at making antiviral treatments for COVID-19 available at home for those who test positive. Local and state officials from Berks County in Pennsylvania will be the first to pilot the program, known as Home Test to Treat, later this …

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(Reuters) – Kenneth Griffin’s Citadel marked record revenues in its hedge fund and electronic-trading businesses for 2022 despite turmoil in global capital markets, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The hedge fund operation made about $28 billion in revenue, while Citadel Securities, one of the world’s biggest electronic-trading firms, brought in $7.5 …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 20 hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have voted against California Republican Kevin McCarthy in his bid to become the next Speaker of the House in successive rounds of voting this week. That has stopped the House from starting their work and exposed the sharp rifts …

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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A day after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rejected Donald Trump’s plea to support Kevin McCarthy’s campaign for speaker, one of McCarthy’s hardline opponents cast his vote for the former president. Representative Matt Gaetz, one of 20 House hardliners who have rejected McCarthy, cast his ballot for …

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By James Oliphant (Reuters) – Pennsylvania’s newly elected Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro has named a Republican who resisted former President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud to oversee the battleground state’s elections. Al Schmidt, Shapiro’s pick, previously served as vice chair of Philadelphia’s Board of Elections and pushed back against Trump’s efforts to stop the …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bob Casey, the senior U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, on Thursday announced he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo surgery later this year. The 62-year-old Democrat who has served in the Senate since 2007 made the announcement on Twitter, saying the diagnosis came last month and that he is expected …

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