By Tyler Clifford (Reuters) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said on Thursday she was one of the potential targets of a man who was charged by federal prosecutors with threatening to kill state employees who are Jewish. Jack Eugene Carpenter III, a 41-year-old Michigan man who was in Texas at the time, is accused …
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By Nathan Layne (Reuters) -The state prosecutor said on Wednesday that a “gathering storm” of scrutiny on Richard “Alex” Murdaugh’s financial misdeeds caused him to murder his wife and son, in a desperate bid by the now-disbarred South Carolina lawyer to cover his tracks. In his closing argument, Creighton Waters portrayed Murdaugh as a serial …
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A man was arrested and charged with attempting to place an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft after his bag triggered an alarm at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. The FBI said that Mark Muffley, 40, from Lansford, Pennsylvania, checked a suitcase …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday it is investigating a runway incursion on Monday at Boston Logan Airport that occurred when a Learjet 60 began a takeoff roll as a JetBlue airplane was preparing to land on an intersecting runway. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said earlier it was investigating …
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(Reuters) – A California review board on Wednesday denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee serving a life sentence for assassinating U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Sirhan was denied parole for another three years by a panel of California parole board members, who said he was not suitable for release. The …
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By Jonathan Landay MCLEAN, Virginia (Reuters) -A globe-spanning U.S. intelligence investigation has concluded it is “very unlikely” a foreign adversary is responsible for the “Havana syndrome” ailment that has afflicted U.S. diplomats, spies and other personnel worldwide, according to declassified findings released on Wednesday. The symptoms of the mysterious ailment, first reported by U.S. embassy …
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By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The skepticism expressed by conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices toward President Joe Biden’s move to forgive $430 billion in student debt not only cast doubt on the plan’s fate but also signaled trouble ahead for the use of executive power to get things done in his remaining …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading U.S. Senate Democrat on Wednesday said Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington has what it takes to “move a big bureaucracy” as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) looks to improve aviation safety, but Republicans questioned his limited aviation experience. At Washington’s nomination hearing, Senate Commerce Committee chair …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Norfolk Southern Chief Executive Alan Shaw has agreed to testify on the Ohio train derailment before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on March 9, the company said on Wednesday. The Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern-operated train in Ohio caused a fire and sent a cloud …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A California couple sued a Pasadena-based fertility clinic on Wednesday, saying it allegedly implanted an embryo carrying a rare gene that causes deadly stomach cancer and then falsified records to cover up its mistake. In their lawsuit against HRC Fertility, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Jason and Melissa Diaz said …
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