(Reuters) – New York police on Friday identified the man and woman who were killed when their car crashed and burst into flames on the bridge linking New York state and Ontario at Niagara Falls, sparking a Thanksgiving eve security scare. Niagara Falls police said Kurt and Monica Villani, both 53 and from Grand Island, …
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(Reuters) – The American Dream Mall in New Jersey has reopened after briefly being evacuated while police investigated a bomb threat, state Governor Phil Murphy said in a post on the X social media network on Friday. The mall is located at the New Jersey Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, home to the New …
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By Nichola Groom and Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – Canceled offshore wind projects, imperiled solar factories, fading demand for electric vehicles. A year after passage of the largest climate change legislation in U.S. history, meant to touch off a boom in American clean energy development, economic realities are fraying President Joe Biden’s agenda. Soaring financing and …
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(Reuters) – Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a university student in 1991 in a lawsuit filed in a New York court on Thursday, the second suit of its kind filed against the hip hop mogul in the past week. The complaint against Combs was among a flurry of lawsuits …
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(Reuters) – A woman on Wednesday accused New York Mayor Eric Adams of sexual assault and other offenses in a court filing, alleging they occurred in 1993 while both of them worked for the city of New York. A spokesperson for Adams denied the claim and said the mayor does not know the accuser and …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Wednesday urged a federal judge to reject a legal challenge to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point’s consideration of race in admissions, saying that Army diversity was “integral to ensuring national security.” The U.S. Department of Justice in a brief argued the military academy’s affirmative-action …
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By Dawn Chmielewski and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in New York City on Wednesday that alleges he groped a woman at a rooftop bar and restaurant in Manhattan in August 2015. The plaintiff, identified in the complaint only as Jane Doe, said …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said it struck down the Biden administration’s decision to deny small refiners “hardship waivers” that exempt them from nation’s biofuel mandates, in a win for the refining industry. In July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denied almost all outstanding petitions from oil refiners that argued the …
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(Reuters) -U.S. police said on Thursday they were still investigating a fiery crash on the bridge linking New York state and Ontario, Canada that sparked a security scare prompting closure of four U.S.-Canadian border crossings on Wednesday. The Niagara Falls Police Department’s Crash Management Unit has taken over investigation of the incident, which was determined …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A train derailment that spilled molten sulfur in a remote area of eastern Kentucky on the eve of Thanksgiving disrupted holiday plans for local residents on Thursday, some of whom were forced to evacuate after the incident. The derailment occurred north of Livingston, a town of about 200 people, and involved …
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