By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A federal judge has ruled in favor of Volkswagen in lawsuits brought against the automaker by two U.S. counties over its diesel emissions cheating scandal. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco ruled Thursday that Utah’s Salt Lake County and Florida’s Hillsborough County could not prove that Volkswagen violated…
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) – People from India have been traveling abroad more, and the United States is trying to accommodate the new tourism boom by opening two new consulates in the South Asian country. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been at the White House this week in what has been billed…
BELGRADE/PRISTINA (Reuters) – Serbia’s army commander urged NATO peacekeepers and other international bodies on Friday to step up measures to protect minority Serbs in Kosovo, adding that “the international community is not fulfilling its obligations.” The call from General Milan Mojsilovic came a day after the European Union, Serbia and Kosovo failed to make a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday will sign an executive order designed to protect and expand access to contraception, after a Supreme Court ruling last year overturning the constitutional right to abortion raised fears that birth control could also face restrictions. Biden senior adviser Jen Klein told reporters that the order will…
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada on Friday banned cruise ships from dumping sewage and dirty water close to shore, and said it would impose fines of up to C$250,000 ($190,000) for offending vessels. A range of anti-pollution measures introduced on a voluntary basis in April 2022 will become obligatory with immediate effect, Transport Minister…
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States unveiled agreements this week to sell weapons to India and share with it sensitive military technology, a clear sign of the Biden administration’s desire to deepen ties with New Delhi to counter China’s ambitions in Asia. But those plans, announced on Thursday during a state visit…
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX is offering to sell insider shares at a price that would raise the company’s valuation to about $150 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. In January, the company was valued at $137 billion after raising $750 million in a funding round, according to a…
(Reuters) – Tropical Storm Bret continued its path through eastern Caribbean islands early Friday, striking the region with winds and heavy rain. Early morning the storm reached Saint Vincent and the Grenadines with storm-force winds which extended outward up to 185 kilometers (115 miles) from the center, said the meteorological services of the island in…
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – For a year, Stockton Rush had tried to convince Las Vegas-based investor Jay Bloom to buy a couple of spots on his company’s submersible so Bloom and his son could experience the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of visiting the deep-sea wreck of the Titanic. Bloom was intrigued, he said in an interview…
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. Democratic lawmaker plans to reintroduce a bipartisan bill next month that would allow electricity generated from renewable biomass to qualify for credits under the nation’s biofuel blending program. The Biden administration abandoned a similar scheme over concerns that it could trigger lawsuits.. Under the bill’s plan,…
