By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has tapped NASA’s former human spaceflight boss Kathy Lueders to help oversee development of the company’s moon and Mars rocket called Starship, a person familiar with the hire said on Monday. Lueders, the second former NASA human spaceflight chief to retire and move to SpaceX in…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed a challenge by an Alabama death row inmate who sued months before surviving a botched execution claiming that the state’s troubled lethal injection process would violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. In an unusual case that has returned to the justices because…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by South Carolina officials to revive a Republican-crafted voting map that a lower court said had unconstitutionally “exiled” 30,000 Black voters from a closely contested congressional district. The justices took up an appeal by South Carolina officials of a…
By David French and Mrinalika Roy (Reuters) – Activist investor Elliott Investment Management LP is calling for a boardroom overhaul and strategic changes at NRG Energy after taking a position in the U.S. power company for the second time in six years. The investment firm, which also pushed for changes at NRG in 2017, wants…
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Former White House adviser Amy Pope was elected to head the U.N. migration agency, prevailing on Monday in a tense contest against a Portuguese incumbent who had the support of European countries. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Pope would become the first woman to lead…
By Sarah N. Lynch and Tyler Clifford WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have unexpectedly fallen, not risen, since Title 42 curbs expired and reinstating criminal penalties for illegal entry is likely the biggest reason, the Biden administration said on Sunday. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said border patrol agents have seen…
(Reuters) -Republic First Bancorp said on Monday it had “adequate” capital and would wait for market conditions to stabilize before rounding out the $125-million fundraise it had announced in March. The lender is seeking more “acceptable” terms for the capital raise and also looking for more participants after securing the backing of alternative asset management…
By Dmitry Zhdannikov, Marwa Rashad and Christoph Steitz LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German energy firms Sefe and Uniper have awarded some traders millions of dollars in bonuses for 2022, four sources familiar with the matter said, just months after the companies were rescued with multi-billion bailouts as Russia halted gas supplies. Germany has so far provided…
By Maki Shiraki and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Kioxia Holdings Corp and Western Digital Corp are speeding up merger talks and nailing down a deal structure, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, as a slumping flash memory market puts fresh consolidation pressure on the world’s No. 2 and No. 4 players….
By Scott Murdoch and Himanshi Akhand (Reuters) -Australia’s InvoCare Ltd shares jumped nearly 12% on Monday after it revealed a higher A$1.86 billion ($1.26 billion) offer from global private equity firm TPG had been tabled just weeks after it rejected a lower bid it said undervalued the funeral services provider. Shares of InvoCare rose to…
