By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday said a Texas mother can sue an online entertainment company for sending unwanted text messages to her 13-year-old son after she let him use her cellphone. Reversing a lower court ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Kristen Hall…
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry is seeking damages of around 440,000 pounds ($560,000) from Britain’s Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), court documents released on Friday revealed as the trial of the royal’s phone-hacking lawsuit came to an end. The prince and around 100 others are suing MGN, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday decided – for now – not to weigh in on the legality of judges increasing prison sentences for criminal defendants based on charges for which they were acquitted – a practice that critics have said violates basic constitutional rights. The justices turned away…
By Daphne Psaledakis and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss political, security and humanitarian crises in Haiti with Prime Minister Ariel Henry next week, a State Department official said on Friday. Blinken will travel to Guyana and neighboring Trinidad and Tobago on July 5-6, the State Department said….
(Reuters) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has questioned Goldman Sachs’ role in the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and the profits it allegedly made in the process. “Goldman Sachs, serving as both the buyer of SVB-held bonds and the architect of failed efforts to raise capital for the bank, raked in profits and fees…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Deutsche Bank’s head of human resources, Michael Ilgner, has decided to leave the bank, Deutsche Bank announced on Friday, the latest in a spate of management changes. The move follows an investigation earlier this year into Ilgner’s purchase of the bank’s own bonds just days before the lender reported earnings, a move that…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down race-conscious policies in college admissions includes some subtle warnings to companies about the legal limits of workforce diversity efforts and is likely to fuel challenges to them, experts said. Here are how some of the biggest corporations in the United States fare on diversity, equity and…
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy aims to generate nearly two thirds of its electricity from renewable energy sources by the end of the decade, the energy ministry said on Friday, slightly improving targets made public three years ago. In a revision of the country’s energy and climate plan, the ministry said Italy aimed to get 65%…
(Reuters) – ESPN laid off about 20 of its sports personalities on Friday as the Walt Disney unit seeks to more closely manage costs, a source said. Among those affected by the cuts were long-time NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy, former head coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets, and studio analyst Jalen Rose, a…
By Maher Nazih and Amina Ismail BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Thousands of supporters of Shi’ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr held a protest in front of the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad on Friday to demand an end to diplomatic ties after a man set fire to a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm. Protesters carried portraits of Sadr…