By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge on Thursday rejected a gun rights group’s challenge to an assault weapons ban the state of Connecticut adopted after a gunman in 2012 killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) filed a lawsuit in September,…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday cited the failure of a charter pilot to get a takeoff clearance in a February incident in Boston that resulted in a near-collision with a JetBlue flight. JetBlue Flight 206 that was about to land from Nashville was forced to perform a…
(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc said on Thursday it will begin making some products available only through its emergency ordering process, as part of steps to manage inventory at its North Carolina facility that was struck by a tornado last month. The drugmaker said it was taking additional steps out of an abundance of caution as it…
By Luc Cohen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A husband-and-wife duo on Thursday pleaded guilty to laundering money stolen in a 2016 hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex through an elaborate scheme involving burying gold coins and burning documents in a trash can in Kazakhstan. In a hearing before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, Moscow-born U.S. citizen…
By Leroy Leo and Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -Moderna Inc on Thursday forecast as much as $4 billion in revenue from its COVID-19 vaccine when sales shift to a private market from government contracts this year, and said it expects demand to grow further in 2024 and match the market for flu shots. The vaccine maker…
By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) – The Cuban Central Bank issued rules this week banning state and private businesses from using ATMs and limiting cash transactions between them, as it seeks to tame runaway inflation and off-the-books business amid a grave economic crisis. The regulations went into effect on Thursday. They limit cash transactions to…
PARIS (Reuters) – Rothschild & Co, the Paris-listed investment bank being taken private by its owners, reported on Thursday a 10% fall in first-half sales, driven by a plunge in dealmaking activity. Sales over the first six months of the year totalled 1.24 billion euros ($1.36 billion), down from 1.38 billion a year earlier, the…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) -U.S. passport holders with Palestinian papers and families in Gaza are urging Washington to ensure they are treated equally under a reciprocal deal with Israel intended to insure visa-free travel for American and Israeli citizens. Israel, facing a Sept. 30 deadline to qualify its citizens for visa-free admission to the…
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar slid from a four-week peak on Thursday after U.S. labor market data failed to impress a day before a key jobs report, and as Treasury yields rose but eased at the short end. Nonfarm-productivity rose to an annualized 3.7% to help curb growth in labor costs and…
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – S&P 500 chief executives made $16.7 million on average in 2022, 272 times the pay of their median workers, a new study showed on Thursday, a decline on both measures over the prior year as CEO compensation fell with poor stock returns. The annual “Executive Paywatch” study released by the…
