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U.S. military says no ‘hard data’ showing vaccine mandate hurts recruiting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military has no data to back up claims by top Republicans in Congress that the Pentagon's COVID-19 vaccine mandate is hurting recruiting, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ...
Dec 06, 2022
Bezos’ space company teams with Lockheed, Boeing for NASA moon lander pitch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' space company is partnering with Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp to pitch a lunar lander to NASA, the companies announced on Tuesday, making a renewed bid to land...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. approves potential sale $3.75 billion of M1A1 Abrams tanks to Poland
By Mike Stone and Paul Grant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of 116 General Dynamics made M1A1 Abrams tanks, other vehicles and munitions to Poland in a ...
Dec 06, 2022
Big firms like Ticketmaster can become ‘too big to care,’ FTC chair says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, on Tuesday said giant companies like Ticketmaster, which faces a tsunami of criticism for problems in selling tickets to a ...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. State Department approves potential sale of Chinook helicopters to South Korea – Pentagon
(Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of Chinook helicopters and related equipment to South Korea in a deal valued at an estimated $1.5 billion, the Pentagon said on Tu...
Dec 06, 2022
Family of deceased Capitol police offer spurns Republican leaders at ceremony
By Gram Slattery and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The mother and brother of police officer Brian Sicknick, who died in the days following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, declined ...
Dec 06, 2022
GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi escape U.S. federal litigation over Zantac
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -Drugmakers GSK Plc, Pfizer Inc, Sanofi SA and Boehringer Ingelheim on Tuesday defeated thousands of lawsuits in U.S. federal court claiming that the heartburn drug Zantac...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. Republican hardliner Biggs to challenge McCarthy for House speaker
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hardline Republican U.S. lawmaker on Tuesday announced he will challenge House of Representatives party chief Kevin McCarthy for the House speakership, a prosp...
Dec 06, 2022
McConnell says short-term U.S. government funding measure likely
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday it is increasingly likely that Congress will need to pass a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government...
Dec 06, 2022
U.S. power use to hit record in 2022 on economic growth, hotter weather -EIA
(Reuters) - U.S. power consumption will rise to a record high in 2022 because of increasing economic activity and hotter summer weather, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its Sh...
Dec 06, 2022
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