By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) -United Airlines pilots want higher pay than their counterparts at Delta Air Lines and at least similar improvements in work-life balance in their new contract, the head of their union said. Garth Thompson, in an interview late on Wednesday, told Reuters that any proposal that falls short of those…
By Steve Holland, Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s national security adviser met China’s top diplomat this week and both sides recognized the need to move beyond an alleged spy balloon incident that caused a pause in relations between the superpowers, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. The White House…
(Reuters) – U.S. adolescents made fewer weekly emergency department (ED) visits for mental health conditions in Fall 2022 compared to a year earlier, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on Thursday. By late 2022, pandemic restrictions had been loosened or lifted and adolescents had generally returned to schools, with better…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Friday will defend its $69 billion planned acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard Inc, in a private antitrust lawsuit in San Francisco federal court brought by video gamers who claim the deal will harm industry competition and should be stopped. At the hearing, U.S. District…
By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -The head of Brazil’s electoral authority, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, delivered a stern warning to the world’s top tech companies on Wednesday, saying he would not let them undermine Brazil’s democracy. Moraes’ comments – which included the assertion that global tech giants “believe no jurisdiction in the world…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – New York on Thursday sued the company that sold the locking device included with the gun used by a white supremacist to kill 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery store last year, saying it allowed the shooter to turn the rifle into an illegal assault weapon. In a complaint…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday appealed a New York jury’s verdict in a civil case that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll. The jury in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday awarded Carroll, 79, $5 million in damages. Carroll, sued Trump, 76, in 2022 with her allegation that he…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday set guidelines for blood donation organizations, recommending they screen donors based on one set of criteria, ending a restrictive policy that applied only to men who have sex with men and their female partners. The Biden administration had been seeking to end the previous set…
By Alvise Armellini and Elvira Pollina ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s antitrust agency AGCM said on Thursday it had opened a probe into U.S. technology giant Apple Inc for alleged abuse of its dominant position in the apps market. The watchdog said Apple penalised third-party app developers by imposing “a more restrictive privacy policy” than it applies…
By Katie Paul and Sheila Dang NEW YORK (Reuters) – Social media giant Meta Platforms Inc joined the generative AI product race on Thursday, saying it would begin testing artificial intelligence-powered ad tools that can create content like image backgrounds and variations of written text. A select group of advertisers will be invited to experiment…
