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…
Delta Expects Normal Operations by Thursday as Flight Disruptions Ease
July 24 By David Shepardson and Rajesh Kumar Singh (Reuters) -Delta Air Lines is making progress in restoring its services from a global cyber outage and would resume normal operations Thursday, CEO Ed Bastian said. The Atlanta-based carrier has been hit hard by the outage…
Colorado Ramps up Bird Flu Response, Requires Milk Testing
July 23 By Tom Polansek and Leah Douglas CHICAGO (Reuters) – Colorado began requiring dairies to test milk supplies for bird flu every week, the state’s veterinarian told Reuters on Tuesday, as a federal team arrived to help investigate an escalating outbreak in cows that…
House Republicans, Democrats Call on US Secret Service Chief to Resign
July 22 By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle rebuffed bipartisan calls to resign for security failures that allowed a would-be assassin to wound Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and rankled lawmakers by refusing to provide details about the incident. The…
Delta Air Lines Grapples With Flight Cancelations After Tech Outage
July 21 By David Shepardson and Caroline Valetkevitch (Reuters) -Delta Air Lines struggled on Sunday to restore normal operations after last week’s crippling global cyber outage, canceling 1,250 flights beyond the 3,500 it had already scrapped. The issue has stranded thousands of Delta travelers across…
Israel Kills Dozens as It Steps up Gaza Bombardment
July 20 By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 39 Palestinians, according to health officials, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah. Among those killed on Saturday were local journalist Mohammad…
US Supreme Court Is Making It Harder to Sue – Even for Conservatives
July 19 By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – Over its past two terms, the U.S. Supreme Court has put an end to five high-profile and politically sensitive cases emerging from one particular federal appeals court on the same basis, declaring that the litigation should not have…
Pelosi Backed Lawmaker Urging Biden to Quit Race, White House Source Says
July 18 By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has told President Joe Biden she believes he cannot win the Nov. 5 election and backed California lawmaker Adam Schiff’s call for him to step aside, a top White House source…
Many US Solar Factories Are Lagging. Except Those China Owns
July 17 By Nichola Groom (Reuters) -Construction of U.S. solar-manufacturing plants by Chinese companies is surging, putting China in position to dominate the nascent industry, as other American factories struggle to compete despite federal subsidies. Chinese companies will have at least 20 gigawatts’ worth of…