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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s best-known campaign promise was tentatively advanced in a cacophonous college auditorium as a city housing board agreed in a provisional vote to consider freezing the rent for about a million regulated apartments. In a weeks-long annual ritual culminating in a final vote in June, the city’s Rent Guidelines Board fixes how much landlords can raise […]

By Allison Lampert and Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) – The recent grounding of U.S. budget carrier Spirit Airlines could help ease shortages of next-generation RTX spare engines needed to keep late-model Airbus single-aisle jets flying, industry executives and analysts say. Spirit ceased operating its all-Airbus fleet on May 1 due to high jet-fuel prices. Its bankruptcy is leading to fresh cases of near-new A320neos being dismantled for […]

The NFL and the NFL Referees Association agreed Friday on a new seven-year collective bargaining agreement that avoids a potential work stoppage and use of replacement officials. The agreement, which was approved by the union’s board of directors and ratified by a vote of the membership, runs through the 2032 NFL season. “We see this new CBA as a partnership with the league that benefits our membership but also seeks […]

MIAMI (AP) — Robby Snelling was already receiving autograph requests from young Marlins fans 24 hours before his first Major League Baseball start. The Marlins sure hope that will become a new norm for their No. 2 pitching prospect, who was called up this week from Triple-A Jacksonville to make his MLB debut Friday against the Washington Nationals. “It’s pretty surreal,” Snelling said in Miami’s clubhouse Thursday before walking over […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Rodón remembered back to last year. “I couldn’t really bend my arm. I couldn’t button a shirt,” the New York Yankees left-hander said. ”I couldn’t scratch my face. I couldn’t take a drink of water. … I could definitely never comb my hair.” Seven months after elbow surgery, the 33-year-old is set to return to a major league mound Sunday at the Milwaukee Brewers. While […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man charged with attacking the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is seeking to disqualify top Justice Department officials from direct involvement in prosecuting him because they could be considered victims or witnesses in the case, creating a potential conflict of interest. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro were attending the April 25 event at the Washington Hilton when Cole Tomas Allen allegedly […]

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida jury on Friday convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. South Florida served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to oust Moïse and replace him with someone of the conspirators’ choosing, U.S. prosecutors alleged. Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla and James Solages were found guilty of conspiring to kill or kidnap Haiti’s […]

NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Friday appealed a court ruling that a 10% global tariff imposed in February was not justified under a 1970s trade law. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled on Thursday in a 2-1 decision that Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act was not meant to address trade deficits that occur when the U.S. imports more goods than it exports. The court, […]

USHUAIA, Argentina, May 8 (Reuters) – Patients on a luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak could not have been infected in Argentina’s southernmost Tierra del Fuego province, said Juan Petrina, director of epidemiology and environmental health for the province, during a press conference on Friday. Petrina said the conclusion was based on the time frame between the patients’ time in the province and the onset of symptoms.  […]