By Huw Jones and Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – Companies will face more pressure to disclose how climate change affects their business under a new set of G20-backed global rules aimed at helping regulators crack down on greenwashing. The norms published on Monday have been written by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) as trillions…
By Jeff Mason, Steve Holland and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Monday said a brief uprising by Russian mercenaries against the Kremlin was part of a struggle within the Russian system and that the United States and its allies were not involved in it. Biden offered a cautious assessment of unfolding events…
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday said the situation in Russia remains dynamic days after an aborted mutiny, and said it does not have any assessment about the whereabouts of the boss of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin. “It is a certainly a new thing to see President…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a Republican bid to defend a Louisiana electoral map that was challenged as discriminatory in a case that could lead to the creation of a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. The justices dismissed the appeal by Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of bipartisan U.S. lawmakers said on Monday they are making a new push to expand government authority to detect and destroy drones that could pose security threats. Representatives Chrissy Houlahan, Mike Gallagher, Troy Carter and Mike Johnson introduced legislation that would allow state and local law enforcement…
(This June 23 story has been corrected to change Turley’s affiliation to George Washington University from Georgetown University in paragraph 5) By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies in the U.S. Congress have introduced legislation aimed at expunging the former president’s two impeachments, a legislative maneuver without precedent in U.S….
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is threatening an impeachment investigation of Attorney General Merrick Garland over the Justice Department’s criminal probe of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted on Sunday that U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the federal prosecutor appointed by Republican…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a bid by Apple Inc and Broadcom Inc to revive their challenges to Caltech data-transmission patents in a patent infringement case in which the university’s earlier $1.1 billion jury verdict against the companies was thrown out. The justices turned away an appeal by…
(Reuters) -A United Nations expert said on Monday that U.S. government treatment of Guantanamo Bay inmates was cruel, inhuman and degrading under international law and called for Washington to apologize and provide reparation. “I observed that after two decades of custody, the suffering of those detained is profound, and it’s ongoing,” Fionnuala Ni Aolain said…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit by a group of congressional Democrats who had sought details about a government lease for a Washington hotel covering the time when it was owned by Republican former President Donald Trump. The court acted after the lawmakers this…
