Super Bowl audience dips from last year, early data shows
(Reuters) – The U.S. television audience for Sunday’s Super Bowl championship game of the National Football League on Comcast Corp’s NBC dropped nearly 3 percent from last year, preliminary data by the Nielsen ratings agency showed on Monday.
Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor gets up to 125 more years in prison for abuse
CHARLOTTE, Mich. (Reuters) – Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in prison on Monday for molesting young female gymnasts, capping weeks of horrifying testimony from nearly 200 victims about his decad…
Trump: Any immigration plan without border wall ‘waste of time’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Any congressional immigration plan that does not provide for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border ‘is a total waste of time,’ U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday as two top senators planned to unveil a bipar…
Locked switch blamed in fatal Amtrak crash
(Reuters) – A locked switch is being blamed for the collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train that killed two people and injured more than 100 others in South Carolina early on Sunday.
Disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor faces additional prison term
(Reuters) – Former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, already convicted of molesting young women athletes and sentenced to 175 years in prison, is due to receive a further sentence on Monday for his plea of guilty to related charges.
Philadelphia fans set fire, damage property after Super Bowl win
(Reuters) – The Philadelphia Eagles’ first Super Bowl victory set off rowdy celebrations in Philadelphia as people who poured into the streets set at least one fire and damaged property early on Monday, images on social media showed.
A decade after recession, a jump in U.S. states with wage gains
OAKLAND, Calif./CANTON, N.Y./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The kind of pay raises for which American workers have waited years are now here for a broadening swath of the country, according to a Reuters analysis of state-by-state data that suggests falling une…
Eagles stun Patriots for first Super Bowl title
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – For a city that produced one of Hollywood’s ultimate underdog stories, the Philadelphia Eagles delivered an equally inspiring script by upsetting the New England Patriots on Sunday for their first Super Bowl title.
Eagles stun Patriots to claim maiden Super Bowl triumph
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – The Philadelphia Eagles upset the National Football League’s defending champion New England Patriots 41-33 in a back-and-forth clash on Sunday to capture their maiden Super Bowl title.
Super Bowl opens with protest-free anthem, but fans still divided
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Super Bowl Sunday turned out to be a bye week for on-field protests, with none of the players kneeling or raising a fist during the national anthem, allowing the NFL’s biggest day to unfold without the season’s most polarizing i…
