By Nate Raymond and Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The justices voted 5-4 to uphold…
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) -Encouraged by high-profile successes elsewhere, India wants its private space companies to increase their share of the global launch market by fivefold within the next decade – an effort boosted by the personal support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In the year after the country opened the way for private…
By Ted Hesson (Reuters) – The United States is set to lift COVID-19 restrictions on Thursday night, known as Title 42, which have been in place for three years and allow border agents to quickly expel many migrants caught crossing the border back to Mexico. Immigration processing will revert to a pre-existing system, known as…
KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s warring factions early on Friday committed to protect civilians and the movement of humanitarian aid, but did not agree to a ceasefire and remain far apart, U.S. officials said. After a week of talks in the Saudi port of Jeddah, Sudan’s army and rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed a declaration…
By Aditya Kalra and Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The world’s second largest aircraft lessor, SMBC Aviation Capital, has warned that India’s decision to block leasing firms from reclaiming Go First planes will jolt the market and spark a confidence crisis, legal papers show. SMBC, along with firms such as Jackson Square Aviation and Bank…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A debt limit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and top lawmakers that had been scheduled for Friday has been postponed, and the leaders agreed to meet early next week, a White House spokesperson said on Thursday. Aides from both sides have started to discuss ways…
By Chavi Mehta, Sheila Dang and Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) – Elon Musk said on Thursday he has found a new chief executive for Twitter, but did not name the person, while the Wall Street Journal reported that Comcast NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino was in talks for the job. Musk said in a tweet: “Excited to…
(Reuters) – Australia’s QBE Insurance Group Ltd said on Friday costs associated with catastrophic claims for the four months of 2023 had reached nearly 90% of the allowances it had set aside for the first-half, dragging its shares nearly 9%. QBE, the country’s biggest insurer by market capitalisation, said net cost of catastrophe claims was…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday rejected an effort to disqualify the law firm defending JPMorgan Chase & Co against a lawsuit by women who claim they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and that the bank aided in the late financier’s sex trafficking. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in…
By Daniel Trotta and Jorge Garcia SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants from around the world seeking a better life in the United States have instead found themselves trapped in squalid conditions near the Mexican border, tantalizingly close to their destination, and desperate. On the eve of the expiration of Title 42, the COVID-era…
