Suspect in Colorado Supermarket Massacre Enters Insanity Plea 

Nov. 14 By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A 24-year-old man initially ruled incompetent to stand trial on charges that he fatally shot 10 people inside a Colorado grocery store in 2021, but later deemed mentally fit, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to…

Iceland Prepares for Volcanic Eruption in Coming Days 

Nov. 11 By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Icelandic authorities said on Saturday they were preparing for a volcanic eruption in the southwest of the island in the coming days after a series of earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading rapidly underground. The Icelandic Meteorological Office…

Factbox-Leading Nominations for 2024 Grammy Awards 

Nov. 10 By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Nominations for the music industry’s Grammy Awards were announced Friday. Here are a few selected categories. RECORD OF THE YEAR “Worship” – Jon Batiste “Not Strong Enough” – boygenius “Flowers” – Miley Cyrus “What Was I Made For?”…

SpaceX Wins Reprieve From US Lawsuit Alleging Anti-Immigrant Bias 

Nov. 9 By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from pursuing an administrative case accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of illegally refusing to hire refugees and asylum recipients. U.S. District Judge Rolando Olvera in Brownsville, Texas said in…

Mexico President to Urge Freight Operators to Use Rail for Passengers 

Nov. 8 By Raul Cortes Fernandez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said he plans on announcing a decree before Nov. 20 to call for freight train companies to also use their railways for passenger transport. Lopez Obrador has made…

US Supreme Court Leans Toward Allowing Domestic-Violence Gun Curbs 

Nov. 7 By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared inclined to uphold the legality of a federal law that makes it a crime for people under domestic violence restraining orders to have guns in the latest major…

Lyft’s Gains From Price Cuts Not Enough to Dent Uber’s US Lead 

Nov. 6 By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Lyft’s price cuts may have helped the ride-hailing firm make a small dent in Uber’s U.S. market share, but not enough to prevent the bigger rival from reporting its second quarterly operating profit. After the slowest sales increase in…

Thousands of Black Women Claim Hair Relaxers Gave Them Cancer 

Nov. 4 By Mike Spector, Richa Naidu and Kristina Cooke (Reuters) – Sheila Bush, a cosmetologist, was lounging in the recliner at her St. Louis-area home last winter when an advertisement from a law firm flashed up on her television screen, urging viewers to call…

Musk’s XAI Set to Launch First AI Model to Select Group 

Nov. 3 By Akash Sriram and Mrinmay Dey (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI will release its first AI model to a select group on Saturday, the billionaire and Tesla CEO said on Friday. This comes nearly a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT caught the…