Putin Says Russia Will Defeat Ukraine

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 4 (Reuters) – ⁠President ⁠Vladimir Putin said on ⁠Thursday that Russia would defeat Ukraine on the battlefield ​if necessary, but was ready to end the war via diplomacy and honour ‌unspecified compromises he said ‌had been agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking to foreign media ⁠editors on ⁠the sidelines of …

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U.S. Revokes Endangered Species Listing for Permian Basin Lizard, Resolves Texas Attorney General Lawsuit

June 4 (Reuters) – The Trump administration agreed to ⁠strip ⁠endangered species protection from a ⁠lizard whose habitat overlapped the largest oil-producing region in the United States, ​settling a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated the ‌dunes sagebrush lizard as endangered in ‌May 2024, after concluding …

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What borrowers need to consider before the July federal student loan changes

The federal student loan changes arriving in July could have meaningful consequences for borrowers. Pla2na/Getty Images Federal student loan borrowers have spent the last few years adapting to a constantly changing borrowing and repayment landscape. Between the end of pandemic-era relief, the return of required student loan payments and a series of court challenges affecting …

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Where, Oh Where, Have the Bikis Gone? Oʻahu Is Missing 800 Bikes

When Honolulu’s bike-share system Biki launched in nearly a decade ago, it promised to bring Hawaiʻi a transportation method that had seen success in places like New York City, Boston and Miami. Residents and tourists could get around urban Honolulu by renting a bike for cheap from one of over a hundred stations and returning …

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Trump’s name must come off the Kennedy Center by June 12

Lawyers for what is currently called the Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts are instructing staff to immediately begin switching the name of the facility back to its original title. The instructions, laid out in a memo sent Thursday by the center’s general counsel and obtained by CBS News, are the first official signal …

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Luxury cars seized amid alleged $30 million fraud ring involving children’s health services

Federal law enforcement officials on Thursday announced that two Ohio state employees and two co-conspirators were indicted in connection with an alleged $30 million Medicaid billing fraud scheme involving children’s behavioral health services that were never rendered. As part of the investigation, 14 vehicles were seized, including a Maserati, a Mercedes, a Bentley and a …

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Social Security could be cut by $500 monthly in 2032, a new report claims. Here’s how to boost your savings before that happens.

Savers anticipating a Social Security cut should start exploring ways to boost their savings accounts now. DNY59/Getty Images Social Security recipients may have to make up a shortfall of as much as $500 each month. That’s according to a new report released this week that outlined a scenario in which the program’s retirement trust fund …

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