US Judge Describes How Google Built and Defended Illegal Search Monopoly
Aug. 5 By Mike Scarcella in Washington (Reuters) – U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Monday ruled that Google had violated antitrust law by spending billions of dollars to secure exclusive agreements with developers, carriers and equipment makers to be the default search engine. Here…
Debby Expected to Become Hurricane Before Hitting Florida’s Gulf Coast
Aug. 4 By Rich McKay (Reuters) -Tropical Storm Debby is expected to strengthen rapidly into a hurricane before making landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida’s Gulf Coast by midday on Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Sunday, warning of life-threatening…
California Wildfire Now Fourth-Largest in State History, Hot Weather Offers No Relief
Aug. 3 By Rich McKay (Reuters) -More than 6,000 firefighters in California’s Central Valley continued to battle the largest blaze in the U.S. on Saturday, which burned its way into the history books as the state’s fourth-largest conflagration on record. There was barely a taste…
US FDA Approves Adaptimmune’s Therapy for Rare Type of Cancer
Aug. 2 By Mariam Sunny (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it has approved Adaptimmune’s first-of-its-kind treatment for a rare type of cancer in the soft tissues that most often affects young people. The therapy, branded as Tecelra, was approved to…
US Justice Dept. Launches Whistleblower Program Aimed at Corporate Crime
Aug. 1 By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday debuted its first-ever whistleblower program offering monetary awards to tipsters who report certain types of corporate misconduct, an effort designed to ratchet up the pressure on companies who face allegations of…
Olympics-IOC Asks for Dialogue Between U.S. and WADA Over Doping Dispute
July 31 By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee has asked for talks between the World Anti-Doping Agency and the United States, including the country’s anti-doping agency USADA, to resolve a dispute over jurisdiction in doping matters, it said on Wednesday. A…
El Chapo Son Pleads Not Guilty in US Court After Dramatic Arrest
July 30 By Brendan O’Brien and Luc Cohen CHICAGO (Reuters) – A son of convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug charges on Tuesday, five days after his arrest in a dramatic operation in which he delivered his…
Iowa Starts Enforcing Six-Week Abortion Ban
July 29 By Joseph Campbell DES MOINES, IOWA (Reuters) -Iowa enforced a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on Monday, becoming the 22nd state to impose broad restrictions on ending pregnancies since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in 2022. Iowa’s…
Striking Video Game Actors Use Comic-Con as Platform for a New Deal
July 28 By Danielle Broadway SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – While pop culture fans from around the world eagerly returned for the first San Diego Comic-Con since last year’s dual writers and actors strikes, video game actors arrived to air their grievances about artificial intelligence. “After…
US DOJ Asks Court to Reject TikTok Challenge to Crackdown Law
July 27 By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court late on Friday to uphold an April law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban. The DOJ argued in its filing…
Union Pacific Railway Interfered in Federal Safety Audit, Agency Says
July 26 By David Shepardson (Reuters) -U.S. railroad Union Pacific interfered in a federal safety audit after employees were coached how to respond, prompting the federal rail agency to end the review, the agency and the chair of the Senate Commerce Committee said on Friday….
Olympics-U.S. Olympic Officials Call for Truce in Doping Feud
July 25 By Steve Keating PARIS (Reuters) -America’s top Olympic official has backed the world anti-doping body after its credibility came under fire over a case, recently come to light, of Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance and went on to compete…