By David Shepardson and Clark Mindock WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Norfolk Southern agreed to pay a $15 million civil penalty and $57.1 million in past government cleanup costs on Thursday, as well as millions in future costs to resolve a U.S. government lawsuit over a February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Under a proposed …
By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Singer Cassie Ventura, ex-girlfriend of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, on Thursday publicly thanked the people who supported her after the release of a 2016 surveillance video that appeared to show him assaulting her at a Los Angeles hotel. “Thank you for all of the love and support from …
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(Reuters) -The officer who arrested world number one golfer Scottie Scheffler last week has been disciplined for not activating his body-worn camera during the incident, Louisville police said on Thursday. Scheffler was arrested ahead of the second round of the PGA Championship on Friday in Louisville, Kentucky after he tried to drive around traffic congestion …
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By Diana Novak Jones CHICAGO (Reuters) – A jury in Chicago on Thursday rejected an Illinois woman’s claim that the now discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused her colon cancer, in the first trial out of thousands of lawsuits making similar allegations. The jury in Cook County, Illinois circuit court agreed with arguments from drugmakers GSK …
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By Tom Polansek, Julie Steenhuysen and Leah Douglas CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A second human case of bird flu has been confirmed in the United States since the virus was first detected in dairy cattle in late March, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The infection of a dairy worker in Michigan expands the outbreak of the virus …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the cancellation of another $7.7 billion in student debt for 160,000 borrowers, bringing the total number of people to benefit from his debt relief push to 4.75 million, despite Republican opposition. Biden, keen to shore up waning support among young people ahead of the November …
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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – The company that had intended to auction off Graceland, singer Elvis Presley’s iconic mansion in Memphis, abandoned its plan on Wednesday after a Tennessee judge blocked the sale following allegations of fraud. A representative for the company, Naussany Investments & Private Lending, told Reuters in response to a request for …
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(Reuters) -A large fire that broke out at Sims’ metal recycling facility in Redwood City, California on Wednesday has been extinguished, the company said. “At approximately 2:55 p.m. (Pacific time), we experienced a fire… Our team worked alongside the Redwood City Fire Department and the fire was extinguished just after 5.30 p.m.,” the company said …
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By Brendan O’Brien and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Four people were killed and at least 35 were hurt, Iowa authorities said Wednesday, after a tornado slashed through the farming town of Greenfield the day before and reduced homes and other buildings to heaps of twisted rubble. Officials were still assessing the full extent of property damage …
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By Michelle Nichols and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley said on Wednesday that she will vote for Donald Trump in the November election, despite lobbing harsh criticisms at her former rival for months on the campaign trail. There has been immense speculation on who will receive the votes of …
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