By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board said on Wednesday the probable cause of a fatal September 2021 Tesla Model 3 crash in Coral Gables, Florida, was the driver decision to travel at high speed. The crash occurred on a residential street with a 30-mile-per-hour (48-kph) speed limit and resulted in the …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has ordered a local prosecutor to hand over information on why a suspect with a history of violent crime as a juvenile was not in prison, but on the street where he allegedly carried out a deadly shooting spree last week. The Republican governor’s office sent …
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By Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The National Football League and three of its teams must face claims by Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores of racist hiring practices in open court, a U.S. judge in New York ruled on Wednesday while sending other aspects of the case to private arbitration. U.S. District Judge …
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(Reuters) – Vice Media Group President Jesse Angelo announced on Wednesday he would step down to launch a new company, Checker Media, which would create and invest in news, documentaries and non-fiction projects. The move follows last week’s departure of Vice Media Chief Executive Nancy Dubuc after five years at the helm. “After 30 years …
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By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm Julie Su as Labor Department secretary and hailed his nominee for her past work to increase worker wages and expand protections. Biden, speaking alongside Su at a White House event celebrating her nomination, said she had led …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has assessed that a leak from a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan likely caused the COVID pandemic, director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday, a claim China said had “no credibility whatsoever”. “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are …
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By Erwin Seba (Reuters) – Marathon Petroleum Corp and the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have begun investigating the death on Tuesday of a contract worker at Marathon’s Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas, spokespeople for the company and agency said on Wednesday. “On Tuesday, at approximately 4:45 p.m. (CST 2245 GMT), …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden is using $1.5 trillion in new federal spending to continue his push to reshape the U.S. economy, redirect corporate profits and reverse a decades-old decline in the benefits that go to workers. With a new team of progressive-leaning economic advisers and a fiscal war chest …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Chicago’s incumbent Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election bid on Tuesday, with vote totals showing that two of her rivals will face each other in an April runoff ballot. Paul Vallas, the former public schools chief in Chicago and Philadelphia who ran unsuccessfully for Chicago mayor in 2019, secured the top …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Los Angeles County will pay the wife of late basketball star Kobe Bryant nearly $29 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations that sheriff officers and firefighters shared gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter. “Today marks the successful culmination of Mrs. Bryant’s courageous …
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