By Steve Keating PHOENIX (Reuters) – In just a half-century of evolution the Super Bowl has gone from sports event, to America’s biggest party, to a week long and very expensive immersive “experience”. That includes not only the game but also more in-depth encounters where you can take a sunrise hike up Camelback mountain with …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military said late on Saturday a radar anomaly prompted the temporary closure of airspace to civilian airplanes in Montana but no threatening object was detected. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) sent fighter aircraft to investigate but the aircraft “did not identify any object to correlate to …
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(Reuters) -Police in Raleigh, North Carolina released video showing the events that led to the death of an unarmed Black man last month after officers repeatedly discharged stun guns on him. In edited footage made public on Friday by the Raleigh Police Department, Darryl Tyree Williams can be heard telling officers who are struggling to …
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By Arathy Somasekhar FREEPORT, Texas (Reuters) -Texas residents grilled U.S. energy regulators on Saturday over their supervision of liquefied natural gas processing plants at a meeting to discuss conditions at the fire-idled Freeport LNG plant. The second-largest U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility was knocked offline by a fiery blast last June and operations …
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BOGOTA (Reuters) – Low-cost Colombian airline Viva Air has voluntarily started a local debt restructuring process, the company said late on Friday, as it awaits authorization of its merger with Avianca airlines. Viva Air said in a statement that it made the decision to start the Business Recovery Process (known by the Spanish acronym PRE) …
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Kahramanmaras (Reuters) – UN aid chief Martin Griffiths appealed on Saturday to remember thousands of people who needed shelter and food while rescuers kept searching for survivors of the devastating earthquake that hit southern Turkey and northwestern Syria. Speaking during a news briefing in the Turkish province of Kahramanmaras, as rescuers worked behind him, Griffiths …
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KIRIKHAN, Turkey (Reuters) – A woman died in hospital on Saturday a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, where she had been trapped for 104 hours since Monday’s devastating earthquake, rescuers said. German rescuers pulled 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman out of the rubble in the town …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die Linke party said on Saturday. “Last night Hans Modrow left us at the age of 95. With this, our party loses an important …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI recovered one additional government page with classified markings during a consensual search on Friday at the Indianapolis residence of former Vice President Mike Pence, after classified documents were discovered at his house last month, a Pence spokesman said. The search, confirmed earlier in the …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden met on Friday with Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a reboot of relations between the hemisphere’s two largest democracies after the end of Donald Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro’s stormy rule. During the visit, Washington said it would work to provide support for …
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