By Rachael Levy WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers will ask regulators to investigate whether the make-up of a panel overseeing animal testing at Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink contributed to botched and rushed experiments. U.S. House Representatives Earl Francis Blumenauer and Adam Schiff, both Democrats, have signed a draft letter to the U.S. Department of…
By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) -Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said there was still uncertainty about exactly when Treasury would run out of cash to pay U.S. government debts, but she would keep Congress apprised of any change in the date, which could come as early as June 1. Speaking on the sidelines of Group…
By Joy Malone TOMS RIVER, New Jersey (Reuters) – Ciara Clark, a Black doula, labored for more than nine hours at home before making a last-minute switch to go to the hospital to give birth. With her own Black doula and mother by her side, Clark had hoped to have her baby at home with…
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will kick off fundraising for Democrats’ 2024 re-election campaign in the swing state of Georgia on Friday, as she and President Joe Biden start to tap donors who contributed over $1 billion to the 2020 campaign. Harris will headline the Democratic Party of Georgia’s “Spring…
By Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) – Vehicle production has been slowed at a Stellantis plant in southern Italy in the past few days due to strikes by employees protesting over working conditions, the FIOM union said on Friday. The Franco-Italian carmaker assembles the recently launched Alfa Romeo Tonale SUV, production of which is ramping up,…
By Christian Kraemer and Tetsushi Kajimoto NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) -Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies discussed the need to make global supply chains more resilient by reducing over-reliance on China, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday. Japan, which is hosting a three-day G7 meeting to debate key global themes…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai will meet European Commission deputy chief Vera Jourova and EU industry chief Thierry Breton in Brussels on May 24, according to the European Commission’s agenda on Friday. Breton is in charge of digital rules that will require Alphabet’s Google and other tech giants to allow business…
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Planemakers can’t build them but airlines can’t stop buying them. Even as they wrestle with industrial problems preventing the delivery of jets sold before the pandemic, Airbus and Boeing are totting up billions of dollars of new orders stretching beyond 2030 amid a rebound in air travel. From Air…
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil pipelines from the top U.S. shale field to Houston that have run half empty are filling again as rising output has absorbed most of the space on lines to the main south Texas export hub in Corpus Christi. U.S. crude exports climbed to a record of about 4.5…
By Allison Lampert, Abhijith Ganapavaram and Valerie Insinna MONTREAL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CEO of Canadian aerospace supplier Abipa International would not negotiate further when a potential customer recently pressed for additional price cuts on components used in areas like engines and landing gear. That stance by CEO Jean Blondin is one that more and more…
