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Retailer Eddie Bauer cancels auction for 174 stores
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK, March 4 (Reuters) - Outdoor apparel retailer Eddie Bauer LLC on Wednesday canceled a bankruptcy auction for its 174 brick-and-mortar stores, saying it had not received any offers for the retail business by Tuesday's bid deadline.Eddie Bauer had already begun store...Reuters
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EXPLAINER-Are the US attacks on Iran legal?
By Tom Hals March 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has joined Israel and attacked more than 1,000 targets in Iran and killed many of its top officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Wednesday, a U.S. submarine sunk an Iranian navy vessel near Sri Lanka.Below is a look at the ...Reuters
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US CDC deploys staff to curb South Carolina's measles outbreak
South Carolina outbreak nears 1,000 cases, vaccination response up 70% in FebruaryCDC disease detectives to analyze outbreak dataCDC deployment follows Bhattacharya's call for measles vaccinationBy Puyaan Singh and Mariam Sunny March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...Reuters
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Artificial Intelligencer-Anthropic courted the Pentagon. Here's why it walked away
By Deepa Seetharaman March 4 (Reuters) - (Artificial Intelligencer is published every Wednesday. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also subscribe here or email me to share any thoughts.) For AI lab Anthropic, losing a Pentagon contract ...Reuters
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Trump says oil is beginning to flow from Venezuela
March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez was "doing a great job" and that oil was beginning to flow from Venezuela."Delcy Rodríguez, who is the President of Venezuela, is doing a great job, and working with U.S. Re...Reuters
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Rubio spoke with Turkish foreign minister and pledged full US support, State Department says
March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday and pledged Washington's full support following missile attacks from Iran, the U.S. State Department said.Turkey on Wednesday said that NATO air defenses destroyed an Iranian ball...Reuters
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USDOT approves American Airlines flights to Venezuela
March 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department said Wednesday it has approved American Airlines' AAL.O request to operate U.S. flights to Caracas and Maracaibo in Venezuela from Miami through its wholly owned regional carrier Envoy.In January, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Du...Reuters
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Zelenskiy says spoke to leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait about Iran conflict
March 4 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed the Middle East conflict on Wednesday with the king of Bahrain and the crown prince of Kuwait.Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, also said his administration was in daily contact with the U.S. and once the s...Reuters
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More US states weigh bypassing bar exam to license lawyers
By Karen Sloan March 4 (Reuters) - Connecticut and New Mexico have joined the growing list of states offering or considering lawyer licensing pathways that don’t require a traditional bar exam, amid concerns that public service lawyers and attorneys in rural areas are in scarce supply.The Connect...Reuters
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Rubio spoke with Turkish foreign minister and pledged US full support, State Department says
March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday and pledged Washington's full support following missile attacks from Iran, the U.S. State Department said.Reuters
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Airstrike kills Iran-aligned militia commander south of Baghdad – police sources
BAGHDAD, March 4 (Reuters) - A commander from Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armed factions, was killed in an airstrike on Wednesday, police sources said.The sources said the commander and his driver were killed when the strike hit their vehicle south of Baghdad.Reuters
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Santander's exposure to failed lender MFS is over $267 million, Bloomberg News reports
March 4 (Reuters) - Banco Santander SAN.MC is owed between 200 million pounds ($267 million) and 300 million pounds by a company tied to Market Financial Solutions, a UK mortgage lender that collapsed last week, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The S...Reuters
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White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate but Madrid denies
WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - The White House said on Wednesday that Spain has agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade, but Spain denied making such a deal.Trump on Tuesday had vowed to sever trade with Madrid over its stance against the ...Reuters
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Ukraine's Zelenskiy: Kyiv's partners, including U.S., have sought help against Iranian drones
March 4 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukraine's partners, including the United States, had sought Kyiv's help in defending against Iranian drones."Partners are turning to us, to Ukraine, asking for help in defending against (Iranian-designed) Shahed dr...Reuters
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Nvidia CEO hints at end of investments in OpenAI, Anthropic
By Juby Babu March 4 (Reuters) - Nvidia NVDA.O CEO Jensen Huang said the latest investments in OpenAI and Anthropic might be the chipmaker's last in those companies, as the AI companies prepare to go public this year.The opportunity to invest $100 billion in OpenAI is probably not in the card...Reuters
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Trump called Macron about US actions in Iran conflict, French source says
PARIS, March 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Wednesday about U.S. military operations in its conflict with Iran, a source close to Macron said.Macron also raised in the call the issue of Lebanon, which has been drawn into the spillover of the c...Reuters
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EXCLUSIVE-Big tech group supports Anthropic in Pentagon fight as investors push to de-escalate clash over AI safeguards
Investors urge Anthropic to contain fallout with Pentagon over AI safeguard disputeDesignation as 'supply-chain risk' could impact Anthropic's business well beyond the governmentSome investors support Anthropic's stance, boosting consumer awareness of Claude toolAnthropic refuses Pen...Reuters
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