For some Columbia students, protest encampment is living history lesson
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before students set up a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on a Columbia University lawn last week, some of them took an optional course called "Columbia 1968" about protests against the Vietnam War, a simila...
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Canada's First Nation declares emergency due to excessive chemicals emission
By Wa Lone (Reuters) - Canada's Aamjiwnaang First Nation declared a state of emergency due to the excessive release of harmful chemicals from INEOS Styrolution's plastic manufacturing plant, the Indigenous group said. The Frankfurt-based company wa...
Apr 27, 2024
Ex-McKinsey partner sues firm, claims he was made opioids 'scapegoat'
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A former McKinsey & Co partner sued the global consulting firm on Friday and accused it of defaming him and making him a "scapegoat" to distract attention from its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other ma...
Apr 27, 2024
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler wins dismissal for good of sexual assault lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed for good a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one day in the mid-1970s. U.S. District Judge Lewi...
Apr 26, 2024
US Air Force awards $13 billion Doomsday plane contract to Sierra Nevada
(Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that it has awarded a $13 billion contract to Sierra Nevada Corp to develop a successor to the E-4B, known as the Doomsday plane due to its ability to survive a nuclear war. The Survivable Airborne Operation...
Apr 26, 2024
Kristi Noem, a Trump VP contender, defends killing dog on family farm
By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Kristi Noem, a contender to become Republican Donald Trump'svice presidential running mate, defended herself on Friday against Democratic attacks over her account of shooting a dog on her family farm. Noem, the go...
Apr 26, 2024
Emergency slide falls off Delta plane after takeoff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The emergency exit slide fell off a Delta Airlines jet after taking off from New York en route to Los Angeles on Friday, Delta said. Delta said that crew on the flight, which had 183 people on board, declared an emergency and...
Apr 26, 2024
Stranded ships exit Baltimore port via temporary channel
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Four cargo ships, stuck for about a month at the Port of Baltimore by the ruins of the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge, have exited this week via a temporary channel, according to shipping data. Large sh...
Apr 26, 2024
TikTok general counsel to move to new role focused on fighting US sale
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Erich Andersen, general counsel for TikTok and Chinese parent company ByteDance, will step down from that role in June to focus on fighting efforts to force a sale of the video app in the U.S., the company said...
Apr 26, 2024
New York affordable internet law revived by federal appeals court
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court revived a 2021 New York state law intended to provide affordable high-speed internet service to low-income families, setting aside a permanent injunction and handing a defeat ...
Apr 26, 2024