(Reuters) -Six people were killed in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city and a village in Zaporizhzhia region, Russian news agencies reported on Monday, citing local officials and emergency services. According to TASS news agency, three people had been killed and 11 injured in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk. In a statement posted on Telegram, Denis Pushilin,…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A group of Democratic state attorneys general has urged a federal appeals court to lift an order sharply curbing the ability of government officials to push social media companies to moderate content they deem harmful. The top law enforcement officers of 20 states and the District of Columbia, led by New…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Some of the world’s largest aircraft lessors and insurers are aiming to be ready to go to trial in June 2024 over contested insurance claims for aircraft stuck in Russia, a lawyer for one of the lessors said on Monday. Lessors are suing dozens of insurers around the world for billions of…
By Zaheer Kachwala and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corp on Monday forecast third-quarter revenue above market estimates on optimism that strong demand from the automotive sector will offset broader weakness in the semiconductor industry. Shares of the Arizona-based company were up more than 3.4% to $108.68 by midday after gaining 68.5% so far…
By Gram Slattery ROCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) – U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis took an aggressive swipe at China, railed against what he described as corporate bailouts, and said he would rein in the Federal Reserve in an economic policy speech on Monday. The speech contained relatively few new concrete policy proposals, but underlined…
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Purdue Pharma from proceeding with a bankruptcy settlement that protects its Sackler family owners from lawsuits. An appeals court rejected a proposed delay earlier this week, ruling that Purdue may proceed with a bankruptcy…
(Reuters) – The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Monday that it had launched mid-stage clinical trials to test at least four treatments, including Pfizer’s Paxlovid, in patients with symptoms of long COVID. The studies are designed to evaluate multiple therapies, where the first part of trial will test a longer dosing regimen…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A burning car carrier off the Dutch coast has been towed to a new location away from shipping lanes as part of an operation to salvage the ship, the Dutch public works and water management ministry and local media said on Monday. The freighter, which was travelling from Germany to Egypt when…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged online entrepreneur Richard Heart with illegally raising more than $1 billion in three unregistered cryptocurrency offerings, and defrauding investors out of $12.1 million to buy luxuries including the world’s largest black diamond. In a complaint filed on Monday in Brooklyn federal…
(Reuters) – Archer Aviation shares jumped as much as 33% on Monday after the air taxi maker entered into a deal to provide up to six of its “Midnight” aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. The deal, worth up to $142 million, includes delivery of vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, pilot training, development of…