By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Five people remained in critical condition on Monday after a weekend shooting at a teenage birthday celebration in rural Alabama that left four dead, hospital authorities said. A total of 28 people were injured in Saturday’s shooting at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio in Dadeville, a community of 3,200 people about…
By Lewis Krauskopf, Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – The S&P 500 eked out a slim gain on Tuesday after strength in some big technology stocks countered disappointing quarterly reports from Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs as first-quarter earnings season kicked into gear. The Dow and Nasdaq ended with fractional declines on the…
(Reuters) -An 84-year-old white man charged in the shooting and wounding of a Black teenager who mistakenly walked up to the man’s house in Kansas City surrendered to police, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said on Tuesday, but was freed on bond within a few hours. Andrew Lester had been charged a day earlier with…
By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO (Reuters) -United Airlines Holdings Inc on Tuesday forecast a profit for the second quarter and retained its earnings outlook for the full year on “strong” travel demand, particularly for international trips. In a statement, CEO Scott Kirby said bookings for international travel are growing at twice the domestic rate. The…
By M. Sriram and Tanvi Mehta MUMBAI (Reuters) -About 300 people queued at Apple’s store in Mumbai on Tuesday, as fans took selfies with Chief Executive Tim Cook, who inaugurated the first retail store run by the tech giant in India, underscoring the importance of its market. “The energy, creativity, and passion in Mumbai is…
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is not planning “at this time” to restart family immigration detention, a senior U.S. immigration official said on Tuesday, signaling the contentious practice to more quickly deport families is on hold. Tae Johnson, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said officials had discussed…
By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to be freed from pre-trial detention, meaning he will stay in a former KGB prison until at least May 29 while a spying case against him is investigated. Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall…
(Reuters) -Transport Canada said on Tuesday Hyundai Auto Canada Corp pleaded guilty to six different counts of criminal charges for violating the Motor Vehicle Safety Act. Hyundai Auto Canada failed to send out notices of safety defect within the prescribed time period of 60 days, the statement said, and the company will pay a fine…
By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Aishwarya Nair (Reuters) -Southwest Airlines Co’s said a technology failure caused a one-hour nationwide stoppage of its flights on Tuesday, another snafu for the carrier after a software problem over the Christmas holiday stranded thousands. The Dallas-based carrier’s flights resumed after a vendor-supplied computer network firewall went down Tuesday morning…
LONDON (Reuters) – WhatsApp and other messaging services have united to oppose Britain’s plan to force tech companies to break end-to-end encryption in private messages in its proposed internet safety legislation. Meta-owned WhatsApp, Signal and five other apps signed an open letter saying the law could give an “unelected official the power to weaken the…
