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U.S. opens new probe into fatal Tesla pedestrian crash in California
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety regulators said Thursday they had opened a new special investigation into a fatal pedestrian crash in California involving a 2018 Tesla Model 3. The National Hi...
Jul 07, 2022
Bayer, BASF win new trial on $60 million damage award in weedkiller lawsuit
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - Bayer AG and BASF have won a new trial on $60 million in punitive damages they were ordered to pay a Missouri peach farmer who said dicamba, a herbicide they produced, d...
Jul 07, 2022
Disney says Disneyland’s Facebook, Instagram accounts hacked
(Reuters) - Disneyland Resort's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked earlier on Thursday with a series of inappropriate posts that were subsequently taken down, Walt Disney Co said. "We worked ...
Jul 07, 2022
Senate Finance report says AbbVie shifted profit overseas to cut taxes
By Michael Erman (Reuters) - Drugmaker AbbVie Inc generates most of its sales in the United States, while shifting most of its profits overseas in order to avoid U.S. taxes, an interim report from the...
Jul 07, 2022
Fed’s Bullard: ‘good chance’ for a soft landing
(Reuters) - St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard on Thursday said he sees a "good chance" the central bank will engineer a soft landing for the economy, meaning that it will be able ...
Jul 07, 2022
U.S. charges two Homeland Security workers in Chinese spying scheme
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged two men tied to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of what federal law enforcement officials have called a "transnational repression...
Jul 07, 2022
U.S. FTC settles with Weber grills over ‘right to repair’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Weber-Stephen Products LLC, the maker of Weber grills, has agreed to scrap some warranty rules as part of a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over consumer...
Jul 07, 2022
Exclusive-EU antitrust regulators probing tech group AOM’s video licensing policy
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators are investigating the video licensing policy of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), whose members include Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta, the ...
Jul 07, 2022
Fed’s Waller backs 75 bps rate hike in July, leans to 50 in September
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should raise interest rates by 75 basis points at its next meeting later this month and most likely should then deliver a 50 basis point hike at its following poli...
Jul 07, 2022
‘Godfather’ actor James Caan has died at age 82
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Actor James Caan, who starred as gangster Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather" movie, died on Wednesday evening at age 82, his family said in a statement posted on Twitter. "The fa...
Jul 07, 2022
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