(Reuters) – Twitter Inc on Thursday allowed users who subscribe to its Blue verification feature an early access to its encrypted messaging service. The social media platform, owned and run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, said the service was now available to verified users who have the latest version of the app installed. A Twitter…
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Lawmakers accused the Pentagon on Thursday of effectively undermining war crimes prosecution of Russia by blocking the sharing of U.S. military intelligence with the International Criminal Court at the Hague. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, said at Senate hearing that he had been told by…
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi received court permission on Thursday to return $297 million to customers with non-interest-bearing accounts, without repaying customers who had tried to move funds into those accounts at the last minute. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan in Trenton, New Jersey ruled that customers owned their…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Airlines (THY) will order a total of 600 new aircraft in June and they will be delivered within ten years, company chairman Ahmet Bolat said on Thursday. Such an order, if confirmed, would be the largest in the industry’s history by a single airline, eclipsing a record order by Air India…
By Nathan Layne and Tim Reid (Reuters) -An unrepentant Donald Trump held firm to past grievances at the first televised town hall of the 2024 U.S. presidential election on Wednesday, stressing from the moment he took the stage that he has little intention of mounting a more disciplined campaign for his third White House bid….
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday questioned Elon Musk’s bid to end an agreement that he made to get a Tesla Inc lawyer’s preapproval of some of his tweets, with judges pointing out that he agreed to it as part of a 2018 deal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Deposit withdrawals from U.S. banks following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank were concentrated in around 30 “super-regional” institutions in the $50 billion to $250 billion range, similar to SVB, New York Fed researchers concluded in a newly released study. Deposits among thousands of “community and smaller regional banks……
By Alexander Villegas SALAR DE ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) – Albemarle Corp hopes to expand its lithium operations in Chile’s Atacama salt flat as early as 2028 with direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology under its current government contract, Ignacio Mehech, the company’s Chile manager, told Reuters. “Depending on environmental and other permits needed in Chile, as…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) – Activist investor Elliott Investment Management L.P. disclosed a large investment in Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co on Thursday and said it wants the company to strengthen its financial position by refreshing the board, selling its stores and conducting an operational review. Elliott holds a 10% stake in the 125-year-old company,…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that a U.S. debt default prompted by failure to raise the country’s debt ceiling would have “very serious repercussions” for the U.S. economy as well as the global economy, including likely higher borrowing costs. IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack also told a news…
