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(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had “violated Russian law” and been caught “red-handed”, after the U.S. State Department officially designated him as having been “wrongfully detained” by Russia. Russia’s federal security service (FSB) arrested Gershkovich last month on espionage charges widely decried as bogus by the …

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By Nathan Frandino SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) – As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, a California county is using the same wastewater monitoring program it used to track the coronavirus to go after another deadly public health crisis: opioids. Marin County, north of San Francisco, began a pilot program in February to collect wastewater samples from …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday determined that Russia has “wrongfully detained” American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, effectively saying that espionage charges are bogus and that the case is political. “Journalism is not a crime,” State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a statement. “We condemn …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia Chief of the Defence Force Angus Campbell on Tuesday described the possible intelligence leak by the United States a “serious” incident and said that the U.S. was engaging with its partners to understand the consequences. “The issue of maintaining security of information is critical to the development of national capability and …

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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -The five people shot dead in a shooting on Monday in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, were all colleagues of the suspect who gunned them down, and two of them were close friends of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Police identified the dead as Joshua Barrick, 40; Thomas Elliot, 63; Juliana Farmer, 45; James …

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By Sophie Yu and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese airlines undertaking the biggest hiring drives in more than three years as travel rebounds are facing a deluge of applicants for cabin crew roles as fresh university graduates turn to the relatively high-paying career in a bleak job market. In contrast to Western countries, where …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) on Monday proposed reducing electric vehicles’ (EV) mileage ratings to meet government fuel economy requirements, a move that could force automakers to sell more low-emissions cars or improve conventional models.  DOE wants to significantly revise how it calculates the petroleum-equivalent fuel economy rating for …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge rejected requests to sever JPMorgan Chase & Co’s lawsuit accusing former executive Jes Staley of concealing what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein from two related lawsuits over its work for the late sex offender. Monday’s decision by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan is a …

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By Dietrich Knauth and Mike Spector (Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson’s second attempt to resolve talc lawsuits in bankruptcy should be dismissed as an unprecedented fraud designed to deny plaintiffs just compensation, lawyers representing cancer victims argued in a Monday court filing. The attorneys contend J&J defied a January appeals court rejection of its first attempt …

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