By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – Republican federal and state lawmakers, governors, and attorneys general are pushing back on growing efforts by investors and executives to include environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their business decision making. In all 39 bills targeting aspects of ESG were filed as of the end of 2022, of which…
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Wendy Nelson watched her mother slowly die of Alzheimer’s disease, unable to move or swallow at the end. “All her pleasures of life were gone,” Nelson said. Grief-stricken, terrified of facing the same death, Nelson ordered 23andMe DNA test kits for Christmas 2020 for herself and three adult daughters….
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked, for now, lower court orders that would have imposed new restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone while a lawsuit by anti-abortion groups and doctors seeking to ban it proceeds. But the legal fight over the drug is far from over. Here is what…
By Abhirup Roy, Dan Levine and Hyunjoo Jin LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A California state court jury on Friday handed Tesla Inc a sweeping win, finding the electric vehicle maker’s Autopilot feature did not fail in what appeared to be the first trial related to a crash involving the partially automated driving software. Tesla has been…
By Abhirup Roy, Dan Levine and Hyunjoo Jin LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jurors in what appears to be the first trial related to a crash involving Tesla’s Autopilot feature told Reuters after the verdict on Friday that the electric-vehicle maker clearly warned that the partially automated driving software was not a self-piloted system, and that…
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s richest people added $152 billion to their wealth over the past year, buoyed by high prices for natural resources and rebounding from the huge loss of fortunes they experienced just after the Ukraine war began, Forbes Russia said. Russia has 110 official billionaires in the list, up 22…
(Reuters) – Bed Bath & Beyond Inc is considering sales of assets and intellectual property as part of a potential bankruptcy filing that could come as soon as this weekend, Bloomberg News reported, citing people with knowledge of the situation. The home goods retailer is also looking to secure funding from U.S.-based investment firm Sixth…
(Reuters) -Paramount Global has agreed to a $167.5 million settlement of a case stemming from the 2019 merger of Viacom Inc and CBS Corp that created the entertainment company, a filing showed. The settlement, reached on Tuesday, provides for the dismissal of the case in exchange for the payment to Paramount, according to a Securities…
GENEVA (Reuters) -Inmates who have been held for years in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention facility in Cuba are showing signs of “accelerated ageing”, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. “We’re calling on the U.S. administration and Congress to work together to find adequate and sustainable solutions…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified documents to a small group of gamers had been posting sensitive information months earlier than previously known and to a much larger chat group, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing online postings reviewed by the newspaper. In February 2022,…
