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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – American artist Richard Serra, whose enormous steel sculptures coated with a fine patina of rust decorated landscapes and dominated oversized galleries in the world’s finest museums, died on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He was 85. The artist died at his home on New York’s Long Island of pneumonia, …

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By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to North Carolina on Tuesday to contrast their healthcare agenda with Republican policy aims as their reelection campaign seeks to flip the state for the first time since 2008. The North Carolina trip marked the …

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(Reuters) -The Biden administration on Tuesday gave final approval to Orsted and Eversource’s Sunrise Wind offshore wind facility, which is expected to provide power to more than 320,000 homes in New York. The announcement was the latest positive development for the project, which Denmark’s Orsted warned just months ago could fail without a new contract …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s approval ratings ticked up slightly in the last month, according to a poll conducted by Reuters/Ipsos, as more Americans named extremism and threats to democracy as their top worry ahead of the Nov. 5 election. Two-fifths of Americans surveyed said they approved of Biden’s performance, while 56% said …

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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden pledged that the federal government will pay the full cost to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, one of the nation’s busiest arteries that collapsed hours earlier on Tuesday after being struck by a massive freight ship. “It’s my intention that the federal …

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(Reuters) – Here is a timeline of the collapse on Tuesday of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was hit by the Singapore-flagged container ship Dali. All times are EDT: 01:04 a.m (0504 GMT). – Loaded with shipping containers, Dali departs from Baltimore’s port, headed to Colombo, Sri Lanka. 01:24 a.m. – Dali slowly …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Traffic snarled across Baltimore on Tuesday after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge forced vehicles to divert to other congested harbor crossings, raising the specter of nightmarish commutes for residents for months or even years to come. Drivers traveling north or south between major eastern U.S. cities such …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump was issued a judge’s gag order on Tuesday barring him from publicly commenting about witnesses and court staff ahead of his April 15 criminal trial involving hush money paid to a porn star. Justice Juan Merchan granted a request by the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin …

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(Reuters) -The ship that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday was also involved in an accident in the port of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016. The Antwerp port authorities said the container ship Dali hit a quay on July 11, 2016, as it tried to exit the North Sea …

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