(Reuters) – Eight people died in a house fire on Thursday in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, where police said the blaze was being investigated as a homicide. Neighbors reported the fire about 4 p.m. (2100 GMT) in the Tulsa suburb of about 40,000 people, police said. Officials provided scant details of what happened or who was …
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Environmentalists on Thursday sued the agency overseeing U.S. fisheries, claiming it had failed to protect endangered humpback whales from entanglement in drift gillnets – sprawling curtains of nylon mesh – used in commercial fishing off California. The lawsuit accuses the National Marine Fisheries Service of violating the Endangered …
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By Steve Keating MIAMI (Reuters) – As Donald Trump was teeing off in a Pro Am event at the season finale of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Series at the ex-president’s Trump National Golf Club on Thursday, the 9/11 Justice Group was meeting a mile away in a small hotel conference room. As they have done …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 300 groups including the National Retail Federation and National Association of Manufacturers on Thursday urged President Joe Biden’s involvement to help avoid a potential rail strike that could have significant impacts on the U.S. economy. On Wednesday, a second union voted against ratifying a national tentative agreement …
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By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) -The New York Police Department has called for “elevated vigilance” ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, warning that extremists could target political events and polling sites, the agency said in an internal bulletin obtained by Reuters. Poll workers, people at rallies and political candidates face heightened risk of attack …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it was contacting De Havilland Canada DHC-3 operators in the United States to ensure they conduct inspections recommended by the manufacturer after a fatal crash in Washington state killed 10 last month. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) earlier issued an “urgent …
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By Gram Slattery (Reuters) -Phoenix police on Thursday arrested a person suspected of breaking into the campaign headquarters of Arizona Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs two days earlier. Phoenix police said they had arrested Daniel Mota Dos Reis, 36, in connection to a burglary. While they did not reference the Hobbs incident directly, a source …
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Institutes of Health’s $1 billion RECOVER Initiative has picked Pfizer Inc’s antiviral drug Paxlovid as the first treatment it will study in patients with long COVID, organizers of the study said on Thursday. The complex medical condition involves more than 200 symptoms ranging from exhaustion and …
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(Reuters) -The United States on Thursday ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees and family members of government employees to depart Abuja, Nigeria, citing a heightened risk of terrorist attacks. The order was announced in an updated State Department advisory warning U.S. citizens to reconsider travel to the African country due to crime, terrorism and other threats. …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Relatives of children killed in the Uvalde school shooting confronted the Texas public safety director on Thursday and demanded he resign over the failure of his agency’s troopers to confront the gunman quickly and possibly save lives. Brett Cross, uncle of 10-year-old Uziyah Garcia – one of the 19 children …
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