By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Space Force said on Monday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX was granted approval to lease a second rocket launch complex at a military base in California, setting the space company up for its fifth launch site in the United States. Under the lease, SpaceX will launch its workhorse Falcon…
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – The ex-cop who lost his job on the Louisville, Kentucky, police department after firing the gunshot that killed Breonna Taylor in her home, helping stoke mass protests against racial injustice in 2020, has returned to the ranks of law enforcement. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, serving a rural area of…
By Stephanie Kelly (Reuters) – Oil prices slipped in early trade on Tuesday, paring gains from the previous session, as investors weighed strong holiday travel in China that could boost fuel demand with the prospect of rising interest rates elsewhere slowing economic growth. Brent crude fell 7 cents to $82.66 a barrel at 0013 GMT,…
By Tom Polansek and Leah Douglas CHICAGO (Reuters) -JBS USA is ending contracts with a U.S. company fined for hiring kids to clean meat plants, the unit of Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA said on Monday, adding it is bringing the work in-house at some facilities. The changes show how a U.S. government investigation into food-safety…
By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Coinbase Global Inc filed a petition on Monday in an effort to compel the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to create new rules for digital assets, the company said in a blog post, in the latest escalation of the cryptocurrency exchange’s tensions with the securities regulator. Coinbase filed a petition…
By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) -Top cryptocurrency bitcoin could reach $100,000 by the end of 2024, Standard Chartered said on Monday, saying that the so-called “crypto winter” is over. Bitcoin could gain from factors including recent turmoil in the banking sector, a stabilisation of risk assets as the U.S. Federal Reserve ends its interest rate-hiking…
(This April 19 story has been corrected to fix the name of Banxa U.S. CEO to Richard Mico, not Ricardo Mico, in paragraph 24) By Elizabeth Howcroft and Hannah Lang LONDON (Reuters) – Crypto firms have been left scrambling to find banking partners after the collapse of three crypto-friendly lenders in the U.S. last month,…
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday said he will press U.S. counterpart Joe Biden to make clear the extent of Washington’s commitment to protect his country under a 1951 security pact, citing growing regional tension. The past two Philippine administrations have urged former colonial power United States to be specific on…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Treasury and Germany’s Lufthansa have agreed to extend exclusive talks over the sale of ITA Airways until May 12 from the previous deadline of April 24, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday. State-controlled ITA officially replaced the money-losing Alitalia airline in 2021. The source, speaking on condition…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission has tweaked draft patent rules to make it easier for patent holders to sue companies over royalty disputes following criticism that an earlier draft favoured users while restricting patent owners from seeking injunctions. The EU executive, which will announce the draft rules on Wednesday, is…
