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…
Payments App Zelle Begins Refunds for Imposter Scams After Washington Pressure
Nov. 13 By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Banks on the payment app Zelle have begun refunding victims of imposter scams to address consumer protection concerns raised by U.S. lawmakers and the federal consumer watchdog, in a major policy change. The 2,100 financial firms on Zelle,…
Smoky Skies in Indian Capital on Diwali as Revellers Defy Firecracker Ban
Nov. 12 By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A toxic haze began to circulate in New Delhi on Sunday as people in the city of 20 million, which has struggled with heavy pollution recently, defied a ban on firecrackers on the night of Diwali,…
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…
Protesters Oppose Biden War Policy in Large Pro-Palestinian Rally in Washington
Nov. 5 By Elizabeth Frantz and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington on Saturday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza where thousands have been killed in an Israeli offensive since an attack by Palestinian Islamists Hamas, and to denounce President…
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…