Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Poll: Hugs and dirty jokes - Americans differ on acceptable behavior

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Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Poll: Hugs and dirty jokes - Americans differ on acceptable behavior
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans differ widely in their views of what constitutes sexual harassment, with age and race as well as gender throwing up the dividing lines, posing a challenge for those who police for such conduct in the workplace.
New York removes misleading nuclear fallout shelter signs
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has quietly begun removing some of the corroding yellow nuclear fallout shelter signs that were appended to thousands of buildings in the 1960s, saying many are misleading Cold War relics that no longer denote functional shelters.
Northeast states sue EPA over air pollution from Midwest
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eight northeastern states said on Tuesday they sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to force it to impose more stringent controls on a group of mostly Midwestern states whose air pollution they claim is being blown in their direction.
U.S. appeals court rejects challenge to Trump voter fraud panel
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court in Washington on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision to allow President Donald Trump's commission investigating voter fraud to request data on voter rolls from U.S. states.
Obama urges 'leaders' not to split society with online biases
LONDON (Reuters) - Former U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their own biases.
NHL: Maple Leafs' goaltending great Bower dies at 93
(Reuters) - Hall of Fame ice hockey goaltender Johnny Bower died of pneumonia on Tuesday at the age of 93, his family have said.
Los Angeles-Tokyo flight turns back after passenger mix-up
(Reuters) - A Tokyo-bound jet returned to Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday because the crew learned four hours into the flight that a passenger was on the wrong plane, All Nippon Airways (ANA) said in a statement.
U.S. cities sue military over gun background-check system
(Reuters) - The cities of New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia have sued the U.S. Department of Defense to make it fix its system for reporting conviction records to a database used for background checks on gun buyers.
Exclusive: Federal agents found fetuses in body broker's warehouse (Warning: Graphic images)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal agents discovered four preserved fetuses in the Detroit warehouse of a man who sold human body parts, confidential photographs reviewed by Reuters show.
JetBlue plane skids off taxiway in Boston, no injuries
(Reuters) - A JetBlue Airways passenger plane skidded off an icy taxiway after landing at Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday night but no injuries were reported, the airline said.
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