By Bill Trott (Reuters) -Former Boston Celtics star Bill Russell, one of the sports world’s greatest winners as the anchor of a team that won 11 NBA championships, as well as the league’s first black coach, died on Sunday at the age of 88. Russell, a five-time Most Valuable Player who was also outspoken on …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again on Saturday in what the White House doctor described as a “rebound” case seen in a small percentage of patients who take the antiviral drug Paxlovid. Biden, 79, who emerged from COVID isolation on Wednesday after testing …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At least 25 people, including four children, have died in floods unleashed by torrential rains in eastern Kentucky, and more fatalities are expected, the state’s governor Andy Beshear said on Saturday. “This is still an emergency situation,” Beshear told reporters. “We are in search and rescue mode. Again, that count is going …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A single winning ticket for a Mega Millions lottery jackpot of $1.28 billion, the second-largest in U.S. history, was sold in Illinois, lottery organizers said on Saturday. “Congratulations to the Illinois Lottery for selling the winning ticket for the $1.28 billion Mega Millions jackpot,” Ohio Lottery Director Pat McDonald said in a statement. …
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By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday rejected key aspects of the Boy Scouts of America’s reorganization plan and its underlying sex abuse settlement, delaying the national youth organization’s ability to emerge from bankruptcy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein in Wilmington, Delaware, ruled she could not approve all aspects of the plan …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -The death toll in eastern Kentucky rose to at least 16 on Friday as flooding unleashed by “epic” torrential rainfall swept through homes, washed out roads and pushed rivers over their banks, state authorities said, warning that more fatalities were expected. Police and National Guard troops, including personnel from neighboring states, …
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By Sharon Bernstein and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -Flooding in eastern Kentucky has caused at least eight deaths, Governor Andy Beshear said on Thursday, and the death toll is expected to reach double digits as water continues to rise. A series of storms drenching the eastern part of the state has dropped water that has yet …
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By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -People at high risk of severe disease who have yet to get a second COVID-19 booster should not wait for next-generation, Omicron-targeted vaccines expected in the fall, five vaccine experts told Reuters. In many countries, including the United States, the BA.5 Omicron subvariant of the virus is surging, but current …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House communications director Kate Bedingfield, who was slated to leave her position, has decided to stay on. The long time aide to President Joe Biden will take some time off in August and return in September, a White House official said. “A massive thank you to everyone (every. one.) who endured …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Friday it will investigate a fire that destroyed an electric transit bus in Hamden, Connecticut on July 23. The NTSB probe is in parallel to the Connecticut State Police fire origin and cause investigation that is ongoing. CTtransit – the state’s bus …
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