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January 10, 2023
This aerial photo shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, north of Tokyo, on March 17, 2022. Japan's government has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated but still radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to “around spring or summer,' indicating a delay from the initial target of this spring, factoring into the progress of a release tunnel and the need to gain public support.
Japan Delays Fukushima Plant Water Release
January 13, 2023
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In this undated photo rom the New York Police Department Facebook page, officers stand by what the NYPD thought was marijuana. The Vermont farm that grew the plants and the Brooklyn CBD shop that ordered them insist they're not pot, but legal industrial hemp.
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Busts Highlight Confusion over Hemp
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Opioid Lawsuit Hits Billionaire Family
The state amended an existing lawsuit against pill maker Purdue Pharma to add members of its controlling Sackler family as defendants.
March 28, 2019
This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows the StingRay II, a cellular site simulator used for surveillance purposes manufactured by Harris Corporation, of Melbourne, Fla. Search warrant documents released Tuesday, March 19, 2019, revealed that the FBI used highly secretive and controversial cellphone sweeping technology similar to that of Sting Ray to zero-in on Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, when agents raided his New York City home, hotel room and office.
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Controversial Phone-Tracking Device
This is how they got to Michael Cohen.
March 20, 2019
In this Nov. 7, 2018, file photo traffic moves along 44th Drive in Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York. According to experts analyzing the e-commerce giant's sudden cancellation of plans to build a massive headquarters in New York City, Amazon's decision to walk away could scare off other tech companies considering moving to or expanding in the city.
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Amazon's Exit Might Keep Out Tech Companies
In the New York area, the average computer-related job pays roughly $104,000 a year, about $15,000 above the national average.
February 15, 2019
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Transformer Explosion at Electrical Plant
The blast set the skies above New York City ablaze in an eerie, pulsing blue light.
December 28, 2018
The engine from an Amtrak train that crashed onto Interstate 5 on Monday, is transported away from the scene, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. Federal investigators in the deadly train wreck want to know whether the engineer was distracted by a second person in his cab as his train hurtled into a curve at more than twice the speed limit. The train took a 30 mph curve at 80 mph and plunged off an overpass, sending rail cars plummeting onto a busy highway south of Seattle.
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Nearly 300 Have Died in Preventable Train Crashes
The critical speed-control technology has been pushed off for close to five decades.
December 22, 2017
Workers stand atop a damaged railroad bridge at the scene of an Amtrak train crash onto Interstate 5 a day earlier Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. Federal investigators say they don't yet know why the Amtrak train was traveling 50 mph over the speed limit when it derailed Monday south of Seattle.
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Amtrak Didn't Wait for System
The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route came at a deadly cost
December 20, 2017
Cars from an Amtrak train lay spilled onto Interstate 5 below alongside smashed vehicles as some train cars remain on the tracks above Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off the overpass Monday near Tacoma and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing some people, authorities said. Seventy-eight passengers and five crew members were aboard when the train moving at more than 80 mph derailed about 40 miles south of Seattle before 8 a.m., Amtrak said.
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Train Was Speeding 50 mph Over Limit
The data recorder in the rear locomotive showed the train was going 80 mph in a 30 mph zone when it derailed along a curve.
December 19, 2017
In this Aug. 21, 2007, file photo, Amtrak assistant conductor Brandon Bostian stands outside a train at the Amtrak station in St. Louis. Bostian was the engineer during the fatal May 12, 2015, Amtrak passenger train derailment in Philadelphia. Victims of the derailment aren’t buying the findings of federal investigators that the train’s engineer likely lost his bearings because he was distracted by an incident with a nearby train.
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'Distracted Engineer' Hard to Believe
The explanation has been call everything from a "whitewash" to a "quantum leap."
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