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Real estate scion Robert Durst indicted on weapons charges in New Orleans

By Jonathan Kaminsky NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Robert Durst, the real estate scion awaiting extradition to California to face a murder charge, was indicted on weapons charges in New Orleans on Wednesday, the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office said. Durst, recently featured in the HBO documentary “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst,” has been charged with the 2000 murder of a longtime friend in Los Angeles County

Wall St. ticks up on M&A but energy weighs as crude drops

U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday on merger activity in the healthcare sector even as energy stocks sold off after a large buildup in crude stockpiles sent oil futures reeling. Traders are keeping an eye out for the release of minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s March policy meeting, in which the Fed downgraded its economic growth and inflation projections while leaving the door open to raising rates in the

Alaska Airlines refunds fares for California cancer patient removed from flight

(Reuters) – A Northern California cancer patient whose removal from an Alaska Airlines flight caused outrage online said on Wednesday that the carrier refunded her family’s airfare, which will be donated to research. In a video posted on her Facebook page, Elizabeth Sedway said she was asked to leave the flight from Lihue Airport in Kauai, Hawaii, to San Jose on Monday after an Alaska Airlines employee said she would

Jump in counselling for UK transgender children wins LGBT praise

By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A growing number of children in Britain are being referred to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) for counselling for transgender feelings, a development activists hailed on Wednesday as a sign of greater awareness of transgender issues. The number of children – under 11 and some as young as three – being treated at the country’s only specialist centre for children with

Jump in counseling for UK transgender children wins LGBT praise

By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A growing number of children in Britain are being referred to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS) for counseling for transgender feelings, a development activists hailed on Wednesday as a sign of greater awareness of transgender issues. The number of children – under 11 and some as young as three – being treated at the country’s only specialist center for children with