|  | | | | | | | | | U.S. Stories | | | | | | U.S. House Democrats will unveil a proposed $760 billion infrastructure spending bill over five years that aims to rebuild sagging roads and bridges and reduce carbon pollution. The proposal is also intended to get U.S. President Donald Trump to return to the bargaining table. Trump campaigned in 2016 on boosting infrastructure spending by at least $1 billion over a decade but focused first on tax cuts and health care reform after taking office. “America’s infrastructure is in crisis,” Democrats will say, according to a fact sheet. | | | | | | | | Moments before Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and the seven others perished in a helicopter crash, the pilot had tried to climb out of layer of clouds, but the aircraft then banked sharply and lurched toward the ground. The twin-engine Sikorsky S-76B slammed into a hillside 60 seconds later and burst into flames, killing all nine people on board, according to details of Sunday’s crash revealed by federal aviation safety officials. | | | | A woman who has claimed Harvey Weinstein lured her into his home under the pretense of reading a script and then raped her is expected to take the stand in the former Hollywood producer’s sexual assault trial. Tarale Wulff, a model and former cocktail waitress, is not one of the two women Weinstein is charged with assaulting. But she is one of three women who prosecutors are calling to bolster their case against Weinstein by trying to provide evidence of his motives or methods. | | | | | | | | When U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden went to an Iowa university to campaign this week, one thing was in short supply: students who support him. “What’s an old guy like you going to do to get the young people to come out and vote,” a person at a University of Northern Iowa town hall asked Biden on Monday, noting “there’s not very many here.” Biden, 77, joked that it can be difficult to get college students to show up before 4 p.m. and, indeed, a few more young people appeared at a later campaign event at the University of Iowa. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Business | | U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a new North American trade agreement in an outdoor ceremony at the White House to be attended by about 400 guests - but not the key Democrats who helped secure congressional passage of the deal. 3 min read | | | | The Federal Reserve will conclude its latest policy meeting with interest rates almost certainly to remain on hold but officials likely to discuss possible changes to how they manage the U.S. central bank’s key overnight borrowing rate. 4 min read | | | | Restaurant Brands International Inc’s Tim Hortons said it has removed Beyond Meat Inc’s products from its coffee and donut shops in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. This comes after the coffee and breakfast chain cut Beyond Meat’s burgers and sandwiches from its menu in September from all of Canada except the two provinces.
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