(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday said rescue teams have found one body in their search for 39 people reported missing after a boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida in what is being called a human smuggling attempt gone awry. (Reporting by Brendan O’Brien; editing by Susan Heavey)
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) – Neil Young has threatened to pull his music from the Spotify streaming service in protest of its relationship with podcaster Joe Rogan, who the prolific singer-songwriter accuses of spreading misinformation about COVID-19, according to media reports on Tuesday. Young, who survived polio as a child, briefly posted a …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it screened just 1.06 million passengers at U.S. airport checkpoints on Tuesday, the lowest daily total since April 2021. Airlines reported a significant decline in bookings in December amid a rise in COVID-19 cases sparked by the Omicron variant. Last week, American Airlines said while …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British police said on Wednesday they had arrested two men in the northern English city of Manchester as part of a U.S. investigation into a hostage taking at a synagogue in Texas earlier in January. British police had previously said they had arrested four people over the incident: two teenagers in Manchester …
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By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – San Francisco city leaders pledged to step up policing in Asian-American communities on Tuesday after statistics showed that 60 hate crimes were committed against Asians in the city during 2021, up from only nine the year before. San Francisco is the latest major U.S. city to have marked a sharp …
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By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – A year since a Reddit-driven retail trading frenzy rocked the markets and created the ‘meme stock https://www.reuters.com/business/why-did-sec-release-report-gamestop-2021-10-18’ phenomenon, leading U.S. lawmaker Nancy Pelosi’s investments have become a meme in their own right. Google searches for ‘Pelosi stock trades’ hit a record high earlier this month as users on social media …
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(Reuters) -A second police officer who was shot Friday in New York City while responding to a domestic violence call has died, the city’s police commissioner said on Twitter on Tuesday. Keechant Sewell, the New York City police commissioner, called officer Wilbert Mora, 27, “3 times a hero” as she announced his death in a …
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By Brian Ellsworth and Steve Gorman MIAMI (Reuters) -Rescue crews searched late into the night on Tuesday for 39 people reported missing in the Atlantic off Florida by a man found clinging to a boat that capsized in what the U.S. Coast Guard called a suspected human smuggling attempt gone awry. The survivor told authorities …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Attorneys for Alec Baldwin and other producers of the movie “Rust” are asking a court to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by a script supervisor who was on the set when the actor fatally shot a cinematographer. In a filing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, the …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives committee probing the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol could hold public hearings with witnesses by late February or March, one the committee’s members told MSNBC on Tuesday. The committee is trying to establish then-President Donald Trump’s actions while thousands of his supporters attacked police, vandalized …
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