Friday, April 21, 2017

Trump Vows to Unveil Tax-Cut Plan Next Week, Surprising Staff

President Trump signed an executive order on tax reform at the Treasury Department on Friday.
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Video Shows Judge on Hudson Shore Before Her Death

Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam in 2013.
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Oscar Munoz Won’t Get Planned Promotion to Chairman of United

Oscar Munoz, chief executive of United Airlines.
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Anonymous Harassment Hotlines Are Hard to Find and Harder to Trust

Bill O’Reilly, who was removed as a Fox News host this week, had said “no one has ever filed a complaint about me” through 21st Century Fox’s anonymous hotline.
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Judith Clark, Getaway Driver in Deadly Brink’s Heist, Is Denied Parole

Judith Clark in 1981. She was denied parole on Friday, despite having the support of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
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Why a Midtown Power Outage Snarled the Morning Commute on New York Subways

An E train passing through the darkened Seventh Avenue subway station in Manhattan on Friday. A power outage there caused delays across New York City’s vast subway system.
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News Analysis: France Poses Biggest Test Yet for Trump’s Brand of Nationalism

A National Front party meeting this month in Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica.
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Florida State Senator Resigns After Using Racial Slur in Tirade

Frank Artiles said on Tuesday that he let his “temper get the best of me.”
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U.S. Raid Killed a ‘Close Associate’ of Islamic State Leader, Military Says

A woman laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Reina nightclub in Istanbul in January. On April 6, United States Special Operations forces carried out a ground raid in Syria that killed Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, an ISIS militant who had helped plot the attack on the nightclub.
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American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right

Amanda Palmer at a poetry reading at Lincoln Center in Manhattan on Wednesday, where the stage banter was often political.
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Attack on Champs-Élysées Injects More Uncertainty Into French Vote

Police officers on Friday at the home in Chelles, a suburb of Paris, of the gunman who shot and killed an officer on the Champs Élysées.
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UPDATE 1-Freeport collects export permit after Pence visit

* Workers concerned over future employment amid contract dispute (Recasts with permit granted, adds comments on Pence, trade ministry comment)

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CORRECTED-U.S. FDA approves Samsung Bioepis' copy of J&J's Remicade - company

* Latecomer invested $1.3 bln in biosimilar development so far

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REFILE-Freeport warns Indonesia copper mine workers as Grasberg strike looms

* Workers concerned over future employment amid contract dispute

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UPDATE 7-Power outage cripples San Francisco for seven hours

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (Reuters) - A massive power outage threw San Francisco into chaos for most of the work day on Friday, knocking out traffic signals, paralyzing businesses and halting the city's famed cable cars.

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Apple self-driving car testing plan gives clues to tech program

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 (Reuters) - Apple Inc outlined a plan to train operators of self-driving cars in documents submitted to California regulators earlier this month, the latest clues to the company's autonomous vehicle technology aspirations.

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BRIEF-Parkland reports $500 mln senior note offering

* Parkland Fuel - entered into underwriting agreement to sell $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.625 pct senior notes due May 9, 2025 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:

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BRIEF-PG&E says power restored in San Francisco

* PG&E safely restores power to San Francisco, thanks customers for their patience; substation scheduled for modernization

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RPT-UPDATE 1-Two big California pension systems oppose 9 Wells Fargo directors

BOSTON, April 21 (Reuters) - Officials of two large California public retirement systems said Friday they are voting against nine of 15 Wells Fargo & Co directors up for election at the bank's annual meeting next week, citing the bank's phony-account scandal.

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