AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch special forces soldier shot outside his hotel in the U.S. city of Indianapolis three days ago has died of his injuries, the Dutch Defence Ministry said on Monday. Three Dutch commandos in the United States for training exercises were wounded in the shooting, which happened while they were off duty …
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(Reuters) – A Mickey Mantle baseball card in mint condition sold for $12.6 million on Sunday, becoming the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia to be sold at an auction. The rare Mantle card, sold by Heritage Auctions, surpassed a record of $9.3 million set in May for the shirt worn by Diego Maradona, when …
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By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) -Launch teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent a final full day of preparations ahead of Monday’s planned liftoff of NASA’s giant next-generation rocket on its debut test flight, kicking off the agency’s Artemis moon-to-Mars program 50 years after the end of the Apollo era. NASA …
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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – A Black Duke University women’s volleyball player who had racial slurs hurled at her from the crowd during Friday’s match against Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, spoke out on Sunday about the incident that drew national condemnation. Rachel Richardson, a 19-year-old sophomore player and outside hitter, said she and …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans joining Congress’s probe of the assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, accused members of his party of “hypocrisy” for defending the former president’s handling of classified documents. “The hypocrisy of folks in my party that spent years chanting ‘lock her up’ about …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -Duke University women’s volleyball match on Saturday was moved to an alternate location in Provo, Utah, after racial slurs were hurled at a Black player from the crowd during Friday’s match with BYU, school officials said. The incident prompted BYU to apologize and ban a fan identified as the perpetrator. Lesa …
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By Nathan Frandino and Matt McKnight (Reuters) – A young mountain lion shot by police died in surgery at a California zoo on Friday, a zoo spokesperson said, after the animal was startled by a tranquilizer dart and jumped at an officer in a suburban neighborhood. Oakland Zoo veterinarians received the lion, estimated to be …
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(This Aug 26 story refiles to restore dropped word in final paragraph) By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the decision of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve a SpaceX plan to deploy some Starlink satellites at a lower Earth orbit than planned as part of its push …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department on Saturday took steps to help alleviate potential fuel shortages in four states after the unanticipated shutdown of the BP Whiting, Indiana refinery. Reuters reported Friday the 435,000 barrel-per-day refinery was shut down and undergoing damage assessment following loss of electrical power …
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By Phil Stewart and Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, according to a copy of the photo obtained by Reuters. The previously unreported photo, released by the …
