By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Long before our species Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, earlier human species also spread to other parts of the world. That dispersal, however, sometimes encountered grave hardships. Scientists on Thursday described evidence of a massive North Atlantic cooling event about 1.1 million years ago that lasted roughly 4,000 years…
By Jack Queen FORT PIERCE, Florida (Reuters) -An aide to Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to additional federal charges that accused him of misleading investigators who were trying to recover classified documents that the former president took with him when he left office. Trump’s valet Walt Nauta pleaded not guilty to charges of…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Robinhood Markets on Thursday defeated an appeal by investors over the stock trading platform’s decision to restrict purchases of 13 “meme stocks” during a January 2021 frenzy that squeezed hedge funds. Customers who owned stocks such as AMC Entertainment, the former Bed Bath & Beyond and GameStop claimed in the…
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) – Ford Motor expects to incorporate more and better software into the trucks and vans in its highly profitable Ford Pro commercial vehicle business and grow revenues by $4,000-$5,000 per vehicle in the future, a top executive said on Thursday. Navin Kumar, chief financial officer of Ford Pro, said the automaker…
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Dassault Aviation is confident it will be able to meet its target to deliver 35 Falcon business jets in 2023, but its order backlog is not likely to expand this year as much as it did in 2022, an executive said in an interview. Private aviation boomed during…
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Valentina Valentini was putting together gift ideas for her wedding, the freelance journalist quickly realized that a traditional registry would not work. With an apartment in London but a ceremony in California, the newlyweds would either need to fly across an ocean with a ton of stuff,…
By Luc Cohen and Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department will soon propose a rule that would effectively end anonymous luxury-home purchases, closing a loophole that the agency says allows corrupt oligarchs, terrorists and other criminals to hide ill-gotten gains. The long-awaited rule is expected to require that real estate professionals…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been treated to far more luxury vacations and exclusive perks from wealthy patrons than previously known, news organization ProPublica reported on Thursday, raising more questions about the lack of binding ethical standards at the court. ProPublica found that since he was appointed to the…
(This Aug. 9 story has been corrected to rectify the details on price increases for plans after the company clarified, in paragraph 2) (Reuters) – Verizon Communications is raising prices on some of its wireless plans as the No. 1 U.S. telecom firm by subscribers looks to boost revenue growth after a post-pandemic slowdown. Customers…
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian airline Azul on Thursday reported a narrower second-quarter loss, beating market expectations, and its shares jumped almost 9% as it provided its first updates after completing a broad restructuring plan earlier this year. Sao Paulo-traded shares of Brazil’s largest airline in number of flights and cities served…
