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Fire engulfs section of popular Manhattan holiday market

NEW YORK (AP) — An outdoor holiday market in New York City’s Bryant Park briefly caught fire Friday morning, sending flames and plumes of smoke above the popular midtown Manhattan tourist draw as firefighters rushed to put out the blaze. No one was injured in the fire, which began in a section of the market just after 9 a.m., according to a spokesperson for the city’s fire department. At least four shops were burned in the blaze, which also damaged […]

December 27, 2024

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Reports: Kings fire coach Mike Brown

The Sacramento Kings fired coach Mike Brown on Friday, ESPN and The Athletic reported, halfway into his third season at the helm. Brown, 54, guided the Kings to the Western Conference playoffs in his first year on the job (2022-23), when he was voted NBA Coach of the Year, and to the play-in round last season. The team awarded him with a three-year contract extension reportedly worth $30 million in July. But Sacramento is 13-18 this season, 12th place in […]

December 27, 2024

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Bezos’ Blue Origin gets FAA license for its first New Glenn rocket launch

(Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it has issued a commercial space launch license for Blue Origin’s — Jeff Bezos’ rocket company — New Glenn launch. Blue Origin entered into a highly competitive area it has long sought to join, as the U.S. Department of Defense picked the company, along with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance, to compete for national security space missions. The Pentagon had made initial selections under a […]

December 27, 2024

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Vanguard reaches deal with US bank regulator over control of bank stakes

(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) said on Friday it has struck a passivity agreement with Vanguard, to help the regulator better monitor the money manager’s interests in large banks. According to the deal, Vanguard is strictly prohibited from engaging in activities that influence the management or policies of institutions regulated by the FDIC, or their subsidiaries. Through “passivity agreements,” investors commit to regulators that they will not exert influence on the banks in which they have a […]

December 27, 2024

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Suspect in deadly New York City subway fire indicted on murder, arson charges

By Rich McKay (Reuters) – The man accused of killing a woman who was sleeping on a New York City subway car by setting her on fire, was indicted by a grand jury on Friday of murder and arson charges, prosecutors announced. The accused, Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was not present at the brief hearing in a Brooklyn court, according to multiple media accounts. A court-appointed attorney for Zapeta did not immediately respond to a Reuters email seeking comment. The grand jury […]

December 27, 2024

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Venezuela accuses an Argentine officer of terrorism as relations deteriorate

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An Argentine military officer who was arrested in Venezuela earlier this month has been charged with terrorism, Venezuela’s attorney general said Friday. In a statement published on Instagram, Attorney General Tarek William Saab accused the officer, Nahuel Gallo, of “being part of a group of people who tried to commit destabilizing and terrorist acts (in Venezuela) with the support of international far-right groups.” In a press conference on Friday, Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich described the […]

December 27, 2024 2

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New York state government to monitor its use of AI under a new law

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state government agencies will have to conduct reviews and publish reports that detail how they’re using artificial intelligence software, under a new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul, a Democrat, signed the bill last week after it was passed by state lawmakers earlier this year. The law requires state agencies to perform assessments of any software that uses algorithms, computational models or AI techniques, and then submit those reviews to the governor and […]

December 27, 2024 2

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Final crystal triangles installed on Times Square ball ahead of New Year’s Eve

NEW YORK (AP) — The last of the crystal triangles that make up this year’s Times Square New Year’s Eve ball were installed on Friday morning, marking the first time in 10 years that all 2,688 were replaced at once. Rapper Pitbull and inventor Joy Mangano were among those on hand to help the organizers of the celebration put the final pieces in place atop One Times Square, the skyscraper from which the 11,875-pound (5,386-kilogram) geodesic sphere drops to mark […]

December 27, 2024

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Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, dies at 105

HONOLULU (AP) — Warren Upton, the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the last remaining survivor of the USS Utah, has died. He was 105. Upton died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Gatos, California, after suffering a bout of pneumonia, said Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. The Utah, a battleship, was moored at Pearl Harbor when Japanese planes began bombing the Hawaii naval […]

December 27, 2024