By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden is withdrawing the nomination of the acting head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to take the top job on a permanent basis. The White House gave no reason for the move and declined to comment. Ann…
(Reuters) -The man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue five years ago in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history could face the death penalty if found guilty in a federal trial that opened on Tuesday. Robert Bowers, 50, is standing trial on dozens of federal charges including 11 counts of hate…
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by a New York lawyer to restrict how much money federal prosecutors can take from his 401(k) retirement accounts to compensate fraud victims after he was convicted in a scheme involving former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli. The justices turned…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. holiday air passenger travel topped 2019 pre-COVID levels over the Memorial Day weekend, which typically marks the start of the busy U.S. summer air travel season, figures from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) showed on Tuesday. The TSA said nearly 9.8 million passengers were screened or passed though…
By Daphne Psaledakis and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Neither Russia nor Ukraine committed to respect five principles laid out by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on Tuesday to try to safeguard Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Grossi, who spoke at the U.N. Security Council, has tried for months to craft…
KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda on Tuesday condemned the Western response to the East African country’s new anti-LGBTQ law, considered one of the harshest in the world, and said sanctions threats from donors amounted to “blackmail”. The law signed by President Yoweri Museveni carries the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, an offence that includes transmitting HIV through…
(Reuters) -Here are the main events leading to the impeachment of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by the state House of Representatives, which is controlled by his fellow Republicans. A state Senate committee will draft rules for his trial, which is not yet scheduled but will begin on or before Aug. 28. January 2015 –…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it was pleased to see that talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue as they seek to resolve a decades-long dispute over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. “The United States stands ready to support the efforts of both parties to conclude a durable and dignified…
By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) – Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from…
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 17 people and entities based in China and Mexico who it accused of enabling counterfeit, fentanyl-laced pill production, as the Biden administration seeks to stem imports of the deadly drug. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it slapped sanctions on…
