By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A team led by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and from the moon’s surface, the U.S. space agency said on Friday, a breakthrough for the company two years after it lost out to Elon Musk’s SpaceX…
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -The families of Sandy Hook shooting victims said they had a strong case to reverse payments received by Alex Jones’ wife and others in his family to help satisfy $1.5 billion in judgments they won against the bankrupt right wing conspiracy theorist over his lies about the 2012 elementary…
By Bill Trott (Reuters) -Jim Brown, one of the greatest running backs in the history of the National Football League who quit the game at the height of his career to act in Hollywood movies and add his voice to the civil rights movement, has died. He was 87. Brown died on Thursday night, his…
By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch WORCESTER (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday ordered the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking military secrets to remain in jail as he awaits trial on charges he violated the Espionage Act. Magistrate Judge David Hennessy made the decision after lawyers for Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21, asked for…
By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Authorities in Canada’s main oil-producing province of Alberta have closed some parks and campgrounds, and are urging residents to avoid activities that could enrage wildfires to avoid straining firefighting resources over the holiday weekend. Traditionally, residents spend the Victoria Day long weekend outside as families take advantage of the warmer…
By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AbbVie Inc and Danish drugmaker Genmab’s blood cancer therapy for adult patients who have received at least two prior lines of treatment, the companies said on Friday. The therapy, epcoritamab, which will be sold under the brand name Epkinly, treats a type of…
By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Allison Lampert CHICAGO (Reuters) -American Airlines pilots have agreed in principle on a new contract that boosts their pay by 21% in 2023, sources told Reuters on Friday, ahead of a busy summer travel season, after years of negotiations with the largest U.S. carrier. The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which…
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands marched through Belgrade on Friday in an anti-government protest following two mass shootings that killed 18 people, blaming the deaths on a culture of violence that critics say authorities have allowed to fester unchecked. On May 3 a teenage boy killed nine pupils and a security guard in the…
By Mike Stone and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that Washington supports joint allied training programs for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, senior U.S. officials said, a significant endorsement as Kyiv seeks to boost its air power against Russia. Training on the U.S.-made jets will take place…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Adidas will start selling some of the shoes from its defunct Yeezy partnership with rapper Kanye West at the end of May, the company said on Friday, and plans to donate some of the proceeds to organisations fighting antisemitism and racism. Adidas cut ties with West, who goes by Ye, in October after…
