Soaring Cocoa Prices Put Spotlight on Hershey, Mondelez Earnings
April 29 By Granth Vanaik (Reuters) – Hershey and Mondelez International investors will be eager to see how the chocolate makers plan to tackle the recent surge in cocoa and sugar prices when they report first quarter results this week. These companies have already been…
Dozens of Tornadoes Strike Oklahoma, Killing at Least Four
April 28 By Rich McKay and Maria Caspani (Reuters) -At least four people died, including a four-month-old baby, and scores were injured in Oklahoma this weekend after dozens of twisters swept the U.S. Southern Plains, while weather alerts on Sunday put more than 7 million…
As Solar Capacity Grows, Some of America’s Most Productive Farmland Is at Risk
April 27 By P.J. Huffstutter and Christopher Walljasper JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA (Reuters) -Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields…
US Births Retreat After Pandemic-Era Growth
April 25 By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of births in the United States fell by 2% in 2023 from the previous year, driven in part by a marked birth rate decline among older teenagers and women aged 20-24, according to a…
US Seeks 3 Years Prison for Binance Founder Zhao
April 24 By Chris Prentice and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors want Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, to serve three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to violating laws against money laundering….
Exclusive-Injury Rates for Musk’s SpaceX Exceed Industry Average for Second Year
April 22 By Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Injury rates at SpaceX facilities continued to exceed an industry average in 2023, according to a Reuters review of safety data reported to U.S. regulators by the space venture controlled by billionaire Elon Musk. The 2023 records,…
How a Small Oregon Town Sparked a Nationwide Debate on Homelessness
April 20 By Deborah Bloom GRANTS PASS, Oregon (Reuters) – On a sunny afternoon in a grassy park by the river, Amber Rockwell loaded a black, steel cart with a tent, suitcases, bags, camping stove and a plastic tin of licorice and tightened it all…
US Restricts Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness, Angering State Leaders
April 19 By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – The Biden administration took steps on Friday to limit both oil and gas drilling and mining in Alaska, angering state officials who said the restrictions will cost jobs and make the U.S. reliant on foreign resources, but pleasing…
Alec Baldwin’s Criminal Case Hinges on a Wild West Revolver
April 18 By Andrew Hay TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) – A Colt .45 “Peacemaker” revolver, a symbol of the American Wild West, is at the center of actor Alec Baldwin’s fight to avoid criminal prosecution for the 2021 fatal shooting of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins…
Astronomers Detect Milky Way’s Second-Largest Known Black Hole
April 16 By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of…