Emergency slide falls off Delta plane after takeoff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The emergency exit slide fell off a Delta Airlines jet after taking off from New York en route to Los Angeles on Friday, Delta said. Delta said that crew on the flight, which had 183 people on board, declared an emergency and...
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Stranded ships exit Baltimore port via temporary channel
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four cargo ships, stuck for about a month at the Port of Baltimore by the ruins of the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge, have exited this week via a temporary channel, according to shipping data. Large sh...
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TikTok general counsel to move to new role focused on fighting US sale
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Erich Andersen, general counsel for TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance, will step down from that role in June to focus on fighting efforts to force a sale of the video app in the U.S., the company said...
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New York affordable internet law revived by federal appeals court
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court revived a 2021 New York state law intended to provide affordable high-speed internet service to low-income families, setting aside a permanent injunction and handing a defeat ...
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US Homeland Security names AI safety, security advisory board
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Homeland Security Department (DHS) on Friday announced a blue-ribbon board that includes the CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet and Nvidia that will advise the government on the rol...
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Columbia University president faces vote of confidence as protests spread
By Julia Harte and Kia Johnson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Columbia's embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a university oversight committee met to address her attempt two weeks ago to clamp down on protests that have roiled the Ivy...
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Taiwan rattled by 6.1 magnitude quake, no immediate reports of damage
TAIPEI (Reuters) - A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck just off Taiwan's eastern county of Hualien on Saturday, the island's weather administration said, with no immediate reports of damage. The quake shook buildings in the capital, Taipei. The quake...
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Biden administration to drop plan to ban menthol cigarettes, WSJ reports
(Reuters) - The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The administration is expected to announce its decision as soon as F...
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Turkey's Erdogan postpones tentative White House visit, sources say
By Steve Holland and Jonathan Spicer WASHINGTON/ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan postponed a White House meeting with President Joe Biden, a source familiar with the situation and a Turkish official said on Friday of a visit that had ...
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Taylor Swift beats Beatles in race to 12th UK number one album
LONDON (Reuters) - Taylor Swift topped the British music charts on Friday with "The Tortured Poets Department", outselling the rest of the top ten combined and beating the Beatles for the record of fastest artist to rack up 12 UK number one albums....
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Bad blood with China? Blinken buys Taylor Swift album in Beijing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken snapped up a Taylor Swift album along with one by classic Chinese rocker Dou Wei during an unexpected detour to a Beijing record store on Friday after talks in China meant to ease superp...
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Biden appears in live interview with Howard Stern
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Joe Biden appeared on a live radio broadcast with interviewer Howard Stern on Friday, telling family stories and saying his stutter prepared him for the hard knocks of life. Biden said the stutter that he has had sinc...
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Biden says he plans to debate Trump
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that he would participate in a debate with Donald Trump, his Republican opponent in November's election. "I don't know when," Biden said in an interview with broadcaster Howard Stern in h...
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Trump allies drafting plans to erode Fed's independence, WSJ reports
(Reuters) -The allies of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are drafting proposals that would attempt to erode the Federal Reserve's independence if he wins, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matt...
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US FDA says about 1 in 5 commercial milk samples tested positive for bird flu traces
(Reuters) -About one in five samples of commercial milk in the U.S. tested positive for traces of bird flu in a national survey, with a greater proportion coming from areas with infected herds, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. There is no ev...
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US inflation rises in line with expectations; consumer spending strong
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. monthly inflation rose moderately in March, but stubbornly higher housing and transportation costs suggested the Federal Reserve could keep interest rates elevated for a while. The report from the Commerce D...
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Traders add to bets on September start to Fed rate cuts
(Reuters) - Traders added to bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will deliver its first interest rate cut this year in September, after a government report on Friday showed U.S. inflation rose last month in line with expectations. Interest-rate futu...
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Climate change a matter for politicians, not central banks: SNB
BERN (Reuters) - Climate protection is very important for the Swiss National Bank, but the issue should be tackled by politicians rather than central banks, SNB Chairman Thomas Jordan said on Friday. "It is also important... we are serious and do n...
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Former tabloid publisher to face more questions in Trump hush-money trial
By Jack Queen, Jody Godoy and Andy Sullivan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker will answer more questions about his efforts to suppress damaging information about Donald Trump during the 2016 election, as the forme...
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COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan defends oil and gas investments
BERLIN (Reuters) - Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate summit, will defend the right of oil and gas producing nations to invest in the sector, the country's president said on Friday, noting that despite climate targets, fossil fuel demand ...
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Colorado paramedic to be sentenced in Elijah McClain's death, bringing case to a close
By Brad Brooks BRIGHTON, Colorado (Reuters) - A Colorado judge on Friday is expected to sentence a paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, the last defendant to face jail time for the young Black man's death. McClain, 23, died afte...
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Daimler Truck faces imminent strike by over 7,300 US workers
By Nathan Gomes (Reuters) - Daimler Truck must reach a new labor contract with over 7,300 hourly workers at six facilities in the U.S. South by the end of Friday or face a possible strike by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union members. The workers ...
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Analysis-Trump election subversion case bogs down as allies' legal woes grow
By Andrew Goudsward, Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump got another break when the U.S. Supreme Court signaled some support for his immunity claim, even as more of his allies faced prosecution for the former president'...
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Factbox-Who are the mega-rich donors backing Trump?
By Alexandra Ulmer and Jason Lange (Reuters) - A handful of mega-rich donors have emerged as key backers of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, collectively donating more than $50 million to support his candidacy against Democratic incu...
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US probes Tesla recall of 2 million vehicles over Autopilot, citing concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla's recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate. The National Highway...
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