(Reuters) – A U.S. Navy sailor was found not guilty on Friday of starting a fire that destroyed the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard in San Diego in 2020. Seaman Recruit Ryan Mays was acquitted of charges of arson and the willful hazarding of a ship, Commander Sean Robertson, a spokesman for the U.S. 3rd …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday Hurricane Ian was an emergency in South Carolina and ordered federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local response efforts, according to the White House. (Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
By Brad Brooks and Joseph Ax Fort MYERS, Fla. (Reuters) -Emergency crews tried on Thursday to reach stranded Florida residents as a resurgent Hurricane Ian veered toward the Carolinas after cutting a path of destruction across Florida, leaving behind deadly floodwaters, downed power lines and widespread damage. Ian, one of the strongest storms ever to …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday ruled that former President Donald Trump does not have to provide the court with a sworn statement attesting to whether he believes the list of items seized by the FBI from his Florida estate is accurate and complete. The order from U.S. District …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Education Department said on Thursday it estimates that the one-time student debt relief plan given by President Joe Biden in August will cost an average of $30 billion a year over the next decade. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said this week that Biden’s plan to cancel some student loan …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday dismissed two antitrust lawsuits accusing Amazon.com Inc and five large publishers of illegally conspiring to fix U.S. prices of electronic and traditional books, causing consumers and bookstores to pay more. U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan accepted a magistrate judge’s recommendations to …
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(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck near Southern Alaska on Thursday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). The quake, initially measured as a magnitude 5.2, was at a depth of 34.17 miles (55 km), EMSC said. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler)
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two migrants were shot, one of them fatally, along a Texas highway as two men in a pickup truck opened fire on a group of people who had stopped for drinking water, authorities said on Thursday. The incident took place on Tuesday near the West Texas town of Sierra …
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(Reuters) – Drone footage showed the damage left by Hurricane Ian in the city of Fort Myers on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday, where boats were washed ashore and left lodged between buildings. Ian plowed into Florida’s Gulf Coast with catastrophic force on Wednesday, unleashing howling winds, torrential rains and a treacherous surge of ocean …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has imposed several rafts of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine in February, targeting its central bank, major lenders, oligarchs and Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Wednesday, Washington warned that the United States would take measures against Moscow in the coming days over “sham” …
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