By Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -Like a plot from the anthology television series “Black Mirror,” the Screen Actors Guild says it is battling the studios for control over the digital replicas of performers that could be used “for the rest of eternity.” The studios counter that they have offered groundbreaking protections from misuse of images. Artificial…
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended down slightly on Friday, with bank and financial shares mostly lower on the day following quarterly reports that kicked off earnings season, but all three major U.S. stock indexes posted solid weekly gains. Offsetting some of the declines, UnitedHealth Group’s stock rallied following its…
By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) -Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC asked the U.S. Supreme Court in a filing on Friday to vacate stays imposed by a federal court halting construction of a portion of its West Virginia-to-Virginia natural gas pipeline. On July 10, an appellate court in Virginia halted construction of the last short section of the…
By Tom Westbrook, Rae Wee and Hannah Lang SINGAPORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bitcoin was hovering near its highest so far this year on Friday after crypto investors took encouragement from a legal victory in which the cryptocurrency XRP was ruled not to be a security. A U.S. judge said on Thursday that Ripple Labs Inc did…
By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Striking Hollywood actors joined film and television writers on picket lines for the first time in 63 years on Friday, cheering and chanting outside major studios with calls for higher streaming-era pay and curbs on use of artificial intelligence. The twin strikes will add to the…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A federal judge in Kentucky ruled Friday that the state can enforce its law banning the use of puberty-blocking drugs and hormones for transgender children while it appeals his earlier order blocking the law. Last month, U.S. District Judge David Hale found that the ban likely violated the U.S. Constitution….
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s government vowed on Friday to use only appropriate force in protests planned for next week and guarantee demonstrators’ safety, following alleged abuses during the previous series of clashes. President Dina Boluarte met with top officials on Friday to discuss the need to guarantee protesters’ human rights. “We call upon the authorities to…
By Sergio Queiroz RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – A group of Brazilian school children gleefully remove pieces of plastic and trash on the sand of a Rio de Janeiro beach during an outing to teach them about the importance of protecting the environment. Their school, called Notre Dame, is located on the city’s tourist hot…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on legislation to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65 and make other aviation reforms, Republican House leaders said Friday. The House bill, approved 63-0 by the Transportation Committee in June, would reauthorize Federal…
(Corrects 2nd paragraph to make it “June 2022” instead of “last month”) By Curtis Williams (Reuters) – Chevron Corp is comfortable with buying U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) on long-term contracts rather than constructing its own U.S. domestic export facility, said Freeman Shaheen, the company’s head of global gas. The second largest U.S. oil and…
