(Reuters) -The U.S. health regulator on Friday denied a petition urging the agency to reconsider its initial denial on a petition seeking a ban of some chemicals used in plastic for food packaging in May last year. The citizen petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sought a ban on the use of eight…
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s election on Sunday will likely produce a win for the centre-right People’s Party, opinion polls show, but to form a government it will need a coalition ally in the far-right Vox party – anathema to many Spaniards. PP leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo, who will potentially let a far-right party into government for…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon is building a $120 million processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for its thousands of planned Kuiper internet satellites, the company and state officials said Friday. The 100,000 square-foot building is part of the roughly $10 billion that Amazon has vowed to invest in its…
LONDON (Reuters) – A self-portrait by Johnny Depp went on sale on Thursday, depicting the Hollywood star when he was in between court cases relating to his marriage to ex-wife Amber Heard. Conceived in 2021 in the studio of British illustrator Ralph Steadman, the artwork called “Five” was completed this year. “This self-portrait, it was…
By Nick Carey, Paul Lienert and Victoria Waldersee POOLE, England (Reuters) – A little-publicized clause in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act has companies scrambling to recycle electric vehicle batteries in North America, putting the region at the forefront of a global race to undermine China’s dominance of the field. The IRA includes a clause that…
By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, an historic step that would break a gender barrier in the U.S. military by making her the first woman to command the service and to become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff….
By Karen Brettell and Iain Withers NEW YORK (Reuters) – The yen dropped against the dollar on Friday after Reuters reported the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is leaning toward keeping its key yield control policy unchanged next week, ahead of a busy week of central bank meetings that includes the U.S. and Europe. BoJ policymakers…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -New Jersey sued the Biden administration on Friday seeking to block New York City’s plan to impose tolls on vehicles in Manhattan to fight congestion and pay for mass transit, saying it was unfair to residents of the neighboring state. The city aims as early as next year to charge a…
LONDON (Reuters) -Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is back in the hands of Britain’s antitrust regulator after an appeals court granted an adjournment, and the grounds for why the UK should reconsider its block on the U.S. software giant’s takeover were published. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) set out on Friday Microsoft’s arguments for the…
By Ryan Woo and Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – Several Chinese cities including Shanghai and Beijing braced for flooding on Friday while inland regions baked in heat threatening to shrink the country’s biggest freshwater lake. Wild weather swings have gripped China since April, causing deaths, damaging infrastructure, wilting crops, and raising fears over its ability…
