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(Reuters) – President Joe Biden plans to have a brief meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s biggest political rival during an official visit to Canada that begins on Thursday, a senior administration official said. The official said Biden will have a “pull aside” with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who was elected last year to …

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By David Lawder and Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The brewing U.S. banking crisis seems far removed from the northeastern Vermont town of St. Johnsbury, but local Passumpsic Bank executive Daniel Kimbell grew concerned when he heard U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s congressional testimony last week. Yellen told a U.S. Senate hearing on March 16 that …

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By Evan Garcia SWEETWATER, Texas (Reuters) – The Texas town of Sweetwater claims fame as home to the world’s largest annual “rattlesnake roundup,” where thousands of pounds of slithering venomous snakes are forced out of their dens and put on display. The rattlesnakes are rounded up in the second weekend of March and then taken …

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(Reuters) -The House Education and Labor Committee on Wednesday issued a subpoena to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging officials of the labor body failed to conduct fair and impartial union elections at Starbucks Corp. In the cover letter accompanying the subpoena, top Republican on the committee Virginia Foxx said an NLRB report from …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to ban caste discrimination was introduced in the California Senate on Wednesday by a Democratic lawmaker, which, if passed, could make California the first U.S. state to outlaw the practice, a problem for the state’s substantial South Asian diaspora. The bill was introduced and authored by state …

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By Jeff Mason, Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s team is leaning toward basing his 2024 re-election campaign in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and is considering at least three people to serve as his campaign manager, Democratic sources familiar with the matters said. Biden, who has said he …

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