By Lawrence Delevingne (Reuters) – * At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress aredirect descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people,representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% ofRepublicans. * The group includes Republican senators Mitch McConnell,Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and James Lankford, and DemocratsElizabeth Warren, Tammy Duckworth, Jeanne Shaheen and…
By Tom Lasseter, Lawrence Delevingne, Makini Brice, Donna Bryson and Tom Bergin WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth this month, many of them could have looked no further than their own family histories to find a more personal connection to what’s often called America’s “original sin.” In…
(Reuters) – Manchester United on Tuesday raised its forecasts for annual revenue and adjusted profit, betting on strong commercial and matchday income as the English football club returns to the UEFA Champions League. Manchester United, which is currently in talks to sell itself, said it was expecting revenue of between 630 million pounds ($801.6 million)…
By Saeed Azhar and Lananh Nguyen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bank of America Corp is adding consumer branches in four new U.S. states, it said on Tuesday, bringing its national footprint closer to rival JPMorgan Chase & Co. Bank of America will open new financial centers in Nebraska, Wisconsin, Alabama and Louisiana as part of a…
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, California (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence and quantum computing startup SandboxAQ on Tuesday said it has won a U.S. government contract for military cyber security in a deal that includes Microsoft and Deloitte & Touche as subcontractors. The contract is with the Defense Information Systems Agency which provides global communications infrastructure…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Tatiana Bautzer and Julia Harte NEW YORK (Reuters) -Clad in a blue jumpsuit and dangling from the side of a skyscraper 1,200 feet above New York City, billionaire Richard Branson urged viewers on Twitter last week to live life to the fullest and try new things. As the founder of space tourism…
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea criticised on Tuesday the U.S. plan to rejoin the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO as a “sinister” move to use an international organisation for the purpose of “realizing the strategy for hegemony”. The Paris-based U.N. agency announced this month the United States intended to rejoin in July, calling it an “act…
(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday it expects full-year profit per share at the high-end of its prior forecast on sustained travel demand. The company earlier said it expects to report 2023 adjusted profit in the range of about $5 per share to $6 per share. (Reporting by Shivansh Tiwary in Bengaluru; Editing…
MILAN (Reuters) – Stellantis launched a ‘Charging & Energy’ business unit on Tuesday to make it easier to keep electric vehicles on the road and cash in on an expanding range of services around greener mobility. The unit will offer a platform called Free2move Charge providing customer services including access to over 500,000 charging points…
(This June 21 story has been refiled to remove the picture) LONDON (Reuters) – U.S.-based ACE Green Recycling, which has developed a lead battery recycling process with no greenhouse gas emissions, said it will deploy its technology to Israel’s Hakurnas Lead Works. The deal to set up the processing at Hakurnas’ facilities in Israel and…
