By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Friday proposed new procedures to improve the safety of Hawaii tourist sightseeing flights by plane and helicopter after a series of fatal crashes including one in 2019 that killed seven people in bad weather. The FAA proposed a new process for air tour operators…
By Karen Braun HOFFMAN ESTATES, Illinois (Reuters) – U.S. gymnast Simone Biles will return to the competition floor in suburban Chicago on Saturday, two years after the “twisties” forced her to withdraw from team finals at the Tokyo Olympics. Biles, a seven-time Olympic and 25-time world medallist, showed off routines on all four apparatus in…
By Rachel Nostrant NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York State Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered the city of New York to spell out what it needs from the state to solve its migrant housing crisis, ratcheting up pressure on authorities struggling to respond as thousands of migrants seek refuge in the city. The…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to a Connecticut law that ended the state’s decades-old religious exemptions from immunization requirements for children in schools, colleges and day care. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said ending religious exemptions, while still allowing medical…
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge hearing the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit accusing Google of unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the internet search market let stand key claims made by the federal government. Google, a unit of Alphabet, had asked for summary judgment on all the government’s claims in the case….
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s gold reserves fell by eight metric tons in the year’s first half, central bank data showed on Friday, continuing a years-long reduction in the reserves amid a prolonged economic crisis. The drop in the first six months of 2023 brought the central bank’s total reserves to 61 tons, down from 69…
(Reuters) – Ukrainian military officials said on Friday that Kyiv was persistently working to retake land near the shattered eastern city of Bakhmut while Russian forces were pouring in additional troops in a bid to stop Kyiv’s advances. “The Russians are throwing huge numbers of forces into the Bakhmut area,” Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister Hanna…
By Akash Sriram and Abhirup Roy (Reuters) -Nikola lost more than a quarter of its market value on Friday after the U.S. electric truck maker named its fourth CEO in as many years and reiterated for the third time this year its doubts about continuing as a going concern. The news came a day after…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Texas man who suggested a “mass shooting of poll workers” in 2022 elections and threatened two Maricopa County, Arizona, officials and their children was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in federal prison, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday. Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, pleaded guilty in April to interstate…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) – General Motors said Friday it plans to boost employment next year despite concerns raised by autoworkers that the shift to electric vehicles will reduce labor needs. GM, Ford Motor and Chrysler-parent Stellantis last month opened contract talks with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union ahead of the Sept. 14 expiration…
