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Storms bring mudslides, evacuations to California with more rain forecast

By Jorge Garcia LA CONCHITA, Calif. (Reuters) – The latest Pacific storm unleashed torrential downpours and damaging winds in California on Tuesday, knocking out power and turning city streets into rivers as mudslides cut off highways and entire communities faced evacuation orders. More than 33 million Californians were threatened by severe weather throughout the day …

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North America vows to strengthen economic ties, Mexico energy row rumbles on

By Jarrett Renshaw and Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday vowed to tighten economic ties, producing more goods regionally and boosting semiconductor output, even as integration is hampered by an ongoing dispute over Mexico’s nationalist energy policies. U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and …

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Panama says Canada’s First Quantum operating without contract

By Milagro Vallecillos and Valentine Hilaire PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Panama’s government on Tuesday doubled down on an order that Canada-based miner First Quantum Minerals halt operations at its local copper mine, saying the miner had been operating without a contract since 2017. Earlier, First Quantum said it would submit an appeal against Panama’s order by …

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Longtime Trump CFO Weisselberg gets 5 months in jail in tax fraud case

By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) -Allen Weisselberg, a longtime executive for Donald Trump and the star prosecution witness in the Trump Organization’s criminal trial, was sentenced on Tuesday to five months behind bars for helping engineer a wide-ranging tax fraud at the former president’s real estate company. Weisselberg, 75, was sent to New York’s …

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Classified documents from Biden’s vice presidency found at think tank

(This Jan. 9 story has been refiled to fix the spelling of “name” to “named” in paragraph 4) By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential days were discovered in November by the U.S. president’s personal attorneys at a Washington think tank, a White House lawyer said on …

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India’s Adani Wilmar sees Q3 sales growth in high single digits

BENGALURU (Reuters) -Fast-moving consumer goods firm Adani Wilmar Ltd said on Tuesday its sales would grow in high single digits in the third quarter, helped by strong demand during the festive season and stronger out-of-home consumption. Standalone sales volume will grow in high teens, the company said in a regulatory filing. Price volatility in its …

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