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By Jarrett Renshaw MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was surprised to learn that classified documents were found in a think-tank office he once used and said he and his team are cooperating fully with a review into what happened. Biden told reporters at a joint news conference with the leaders …

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By Arriana McLymore and Deborah Mary Sophia (Reuters) -Bed Bath & Beyond Inc on Tuesday reported a much wider-than-expected quarterly loss and sales that plunged by a third, failing to halt the months-long cash burn that led to warnings of a possible bankruptcy. The home goods seller has been struggling with a dwindling cash pile …

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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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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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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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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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(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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By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended solidly higher on Tuesday, led by a 1% gain in the Nasdaq, on relief that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell refrained in a speech from commenting on rate policy. In his first public appearance of the year, Powell said at a forum sponsored by the …

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