By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger groups prefer to access news through social media, search or mobile aggregators, according to a report released on Tuesday. Audiences pay more attention to celebrities,…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Tuesday for a resolution calling on Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia for three months. The vote was 422-0 in favor of the non-binding measure. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in March…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday made it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors rather than employees, handing workers in the gig economy and other industries a potential path to join unions. The Democrat-led board threw out a more business-friendly standard for classifying workers…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A Wall Street bank could be held liable for allegedly failing to stop a former partner from defrauding a charitable foundation of $25 million in a fake investment scheme, New York’s top state court ruled on Tuesday. The New York Court of Appeals in a 5-2 decision rejected claims that…
(Reuters) – Restaurateur Anton Pinskiy paid around 500 million roubles ($6 million) for assets formerly licensed by Starbucks in Russia, he told the TASS news agency, shedding new light on one of the many corporate exits from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Seattle-based Starbucks declined to comment. It had 130 stores in Russia, owned…
By Samrhitha A and Chavi Mehta (Reuters) -Amazon.com said cloud services offered by its unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) were recovering after a big disruption on Tuesday affected websites of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Boston Globe among others. Several hours after Downdetector.com started showing reports of outages, Amazon said many AWS…
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives returned to the job of legislating on Tuesday, after a week-long standoff between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a small group of hardline Republican conservatives ended in a temporary truce. The Republican-controlled chamber first voted 219-210 on a gun rights bill favored by McCarthy’s hardline critics,…
By Steven Grattan ITAJAI, Brazil (Reuters) – Last November, just hours before a social gathering for Haitian immigrants in the town of Itajai in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, event organizer Andrea Muller received a chilling message. “Cancel the Haiti exhibition or we will commit a massacre,” read the subject line of the…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday said E. Jean Carroll, the New York writer who last month won a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, can pursue a related $10 million defamation case against the former U.S. president. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in…
(Reuters) – New York City has struck a tentative $6.4 billion five-year contract deal with the teachers union that includes more than 15% in pay hikes over five years and expands remote learning programs that began during the coronavirus pandemic. The contract, covering some 120,000 teachers and other school workers, also calls for a $3,000…
